Central Park Tower Now World’s Tallest Residential Building
October 28, 2019
2:55 am
The 1,550-foot-tall Central Park Tower is officially the tallest residential building in the world. After topping out recently, the Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill architecture-designed structure now stands nearly complete at 217 West 57th street, higher than any of its neighbors on Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row.
It’s the second project on that strip of premiere Midtown Manhattan real estate from Extell Development Company, the minds behind Christian de Portzamparc’s One57. The latter project became the first supertall condominium on the street in 2016.
Since the original unveiling of that design in 2005, over eight similar projects have popped up and are …
