Manhattan Loft Gardens combines residential apartments with a five-star hotel and three sky gardens carved out of the building's profile. Photo © Alex Upton Photography
. . . Working as an integrated group of architects and engineers, the design team shaped the tower’s innovative steel and concrete form to create impressive communal spaces that would provide a natural platform for interaction, while working from the inside-out to maximise views and natural light.
As a result, the building has an unusual tower structure in which the majority of the floors are supported by a cantilevered post-tensioned concrete and steel-framed perimeter truss system at level 10 and 28.