Absolutely for lateral loads and structural rigidity. State of the art for a tall skinny residential building. St. Regis in Chicago had a similar amount of concrete walls across the three masses for the same reason. And still required a blow-thru floor to minimize sway.
Hi UpwithOlives, just to continue if I may with your thought process thinking there is a relatively static podium attached to a dynamic tower exposed to lateral loading. I'm thinking one would need to bolster up the structure at the bottom of the tower for several floors to dissipate concentrating forces at the podium to tower elevation. Thoughts?
Getting beyond me - I’m just an interested observer, not an engineer or architect. That being said - I believe that’s what we’ve seen in floors 3-6. I think of the 5th floor as the basement with the elevator pits, tied into all the steel columns in the fourth and third levels, which then carried down to ground level through the massive diagonal columns in the first floor space. That first floor also had a significant steel structure in the concrete floor between the super columns.
They acquired some, but not all.
You mean they acquired some of the ones still standing in that photo?
They acquired some that are no longer standing and don’t exist in the photo
If you look at the last photo in Benito’s post #11029 , see link below, I think they acquired the building now used as a construction office. If I remember correctly they tried to acquire the building used as a Rogers store but couldn’t get the owner to sell.
Right that Roger store makes me wonder, even if the owner was asking for $10 million, it would make sense because it would make the site way less space constrained.
Well if Mizrahi owns the next small building, another developer buying the remaining land doesn’t seem likely? The Rogers store is only worth something special if all the small buildings could be assembled into a big parcel.