The brokerage initially led sales for the tower, and its chairman, Howard Lorber, owns an apartment there. That’s led to conflict of interest accusations: One recently elected member of the condo board, Jacqueline Finkelstein-Lebow of JSF Capital, is married to the chairman of Vector Group, which owns Douglas Elliman. He has heard metal partitions between walls. It eventually found that “73 percent of mechanical, electrical and plumbing components observed failed to conform with the developers’ drawings,” according to the Times.Īnd tenants - whom one resident said “all hate each other” - are reportedly at odds on how to address the issues. One of the most common complaints in supertall buildings is noise, said Luke Leung, a director at the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. And while the nearly 1,400-foot skyscraper is designed to move with the wind, that swaying leads to loud noises residents reportedly complained of creaking and banging, as well as sounds “like a bomb” when trash is tossed down a garbage chute.Ī group of tenants even commissioned an engineering firm, SBI Consulting, to study the building’s problems. The Down Side to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks 432 Park, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate. In 2019, strong winds led to an elevator being stopped, trapping a resident inside for over an hour. but I think I would have a mental breakdown being on any floor > 20. I understand the engineering, I know their safety factors must be enormous etc. A brazen homeowner has listed their condo in the rapidly sinking, and precariously tilting Millennium Tower, which stands 58-stories high, has been dubbed the 'leaning tower of San Francisco' Condo in 'leaning tower of San Francisco' listed for 5.6m. The building’s height has also led to issues. Putting aside the whole cyberpunk aspect of this tower I am way to much of a chickenshit to live 1,000 feet in the air, especially when the building is groaning and creaking in the wind. New York One57 condo sells at record 51% loss Cryptome, a website hosted by two New York State registered architects has published a series titled 'Most Dangerous NYC Buildings,' of full construction drawings for the structures, including all supertalls and high-rises approved by the Department of Buildings since 2012.
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