Thursday, January 14, 2010

Floor plans!

Some pertinent information that I've dug up:

  • Proposed height - 2,000'

  • 7 levels of below ground parking

  • 56' high glass-enclosed atrium

  • 150 floors

  • Each floor rotated relative to it's vertical neighbor, such that the entire tower twists through 360-degrees

This is a photo of a drawing, so there is some distortion, but it shows how the floor plan is essentially circular, but with 7 large "bites" taken out of the perimeter, and 7 smaller "bites" taken out of the arcs created between the large "bites" (yeah, that's a bit of a convoluted description, I know):


I believe the current design of the base is slightly different than this, eliminating the inner support legs and with the atrium expanded out so that the outer support columns die into the glass. Some have likened this rendering to a stiletto heel:



Item of note here: the central core around which the floors are built:



Hopefully I can use this drawing to extrapolate the diameter of the floors and the amount of variation as the tower tapers from base to tip (It's a shame it show any of the elevator core):

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