Pencil tower
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A pencil tower is a high-rise building or skyscraper with a very high slenderness ratio, meaning it is very tall while being very thin. There is no universal definition of how slender these buildings
432 Park Avenue (middle), a pencil tower in New York City
Maxluck Court (left) and Fook Kee Court (brown) are examples of typical pencil towers in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
The Summit (left) and Highcliff (right) in Hong Kong
One Madison, Manhattan
Billionaires' Row
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Billionaires' Row is a group of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers, and the neighborhood surrounding them, near the southern end of Central Park in the Midtown section of Manhattan in New York City.
Pencil tower
…residential building. In the 2010s, pencil towers became a new phenomenon of building design in New York City. The newer pencil towers on Manhattan's "Billionaires' Row" (a thin strip of Midtown near Central Park) are mostly supertalls. The first of this new crop of super-slim towers was the 1,005 foot One57 tower. Two…
Part of Billionaires' Row and Central Park (background)
432 Park Avenue, NY
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Central Park Tower Sep 20