Architect Imagines Giant Tower On Tiny Midtown Lot

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Vacant, development-ready lots are hard to come by in New York City these days, but architects won't stop dreaming up huge skyscrapers any time soon. Architects and designers are constantly coming up with ideas on how to to more with less.

The latest concept: A super-skinny tower rising more than 1,300-foot-tall on a tiny Midtown lot.

Architect Rustem Baishev released renderings of the theoretical super-tall that would occupy a 100-by-100 foot lot on West 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. The "alien-like" tower would dwarf nearly every other building on the block by utilizing a support system of interior steel cables as opposed to traditional perimeter columns.

"The project is another take on a path which skyscraper design will likely be following in the coming years, to meet extreme challenges of constrained and dense city centers, with their shortage of big vacant lots, yet ever growing demand for new properties," reads a blurb detailing the tower.

The changes of Baishev's tower being built are incredibly slim, but the concept of an extremely skinny, super-tall tower already has a foothold in New York City. Towers like 432 Park Avenue have already been developed in the same mold.

Check out more rendering's of Baishev's tower below:

Renderings courtesy Rustem Baishev