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New York's $3BN Skyscraper GAMBLE - #37

The World's Best Construction Podcast

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The Leaning Tower of New York

Underneath 270 Park is the MTA's $11 billion East Side Access Mega Project. For this tower to get planning permission, it had to create a new public plaza at street level. Foster and Partners saw that as a way of killing two birds with one stone. The building transfers its weight down through these shear walls into bedrock underneath.

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