A proposal make the concept of u-bend shaped skycraper looking over Central Park.
It has described as the "longest building in the world" by it’s designers the drawings detail how the building would reach an apex before curving back down and more incredibly, it details how an elevator system that can travel through curves would be used to traverse the building.
This design was a dream by design studio Oiio to get around New York City’s difficult zoning laws.
The conceptual drawing shows what the building would look like towering over Manhattan (Picture: APA)
They explained: "New York city’s zoning laws have created a peculiar set of tricks through which developers try to maximise their property’s height in order to infuse it with the prestige of a high rise structure. But what if we substituted height with length? What if our buildings were long instead of tall? If we manage to bend our structure instead of bending the zoning rules of New York we would be able to create one of the most prestigious buildings in Manhattan. The longest building in the world."
The building would be 4,000ft long and lined with glass. Oiio explained in a press release: that ‘in order to do so the building has to literally stand out.’
The building would be long but also tall (Picture: APA)
"We have become familiar with building height measurements, We usually learn about the latest tallest building and we are always impressed by it’s price per square foot. It seems that a property’s height operates as a license for it to be expensive. The Big Bend can become a modest architectural solution to the height limitations of Manhattan. We can now provide our structures with the measurements that will make them stand out without worrying about the limits of the sky.", they added.
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