A penthouse of the supertall Manhattan building anointed the world’s skinniest skyscraper and has hit the market at $110 million. The four-story home spans floors 80 to 83 of the 1,428-foot-tall building 111 W 57th Street and overlooks Central Park. With interiors designed by Studio Sofield, the suggested floor plans feature an entertaining suite on the first floor and a primary suite on the third floor. At the same time, the proposed layout is topped off by a crown suite containing a bar and screening room.
The property features five bedrooms, six bathrooms, two terraces, and 360-degree views of New York City. The Steinway Tower was completed in 2022 on the site once occupied by the historic Steinway & Sons piano company. Designed by SHoP Architects and Studio Sofield, it is one of the tallest skyscrapers in the Western Hemisphere and the most slender, with a height-to-width ratio of 24:1.
According to the architects, its design is meant to evoke New York’s Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when the city experienced a period of unprecedented wealth and a subsequent boom in skyscraper construction. The vertiginous tower’s facade appears to change throughout the day as the colour and texture of the terracotta blocks shift in the light. Inside, designers created a sense of opulence with materials such as marble, limestone, blackened steel, and velvet used in the common spaces and artworks by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse adorning the walls.
Its amenities include an 82-foot swimming pool, private dining rooms and a landscaped terrace. Steinway Tower sits on New York’s Billionaire’s Row, where pencil towers have continued to climb higher, including the nearby Central Park Tower, which is the second-tallest building in the city behind One World Trade Center. Though quadplex apartments are rare, another one on Billionaire’s Row, a 24,000-square-foot apartment at 220 Central Park South, broke records in 2019 when it sold for $238 million to become the most expensive home in the United States.
