Longest building in the world! 4,000 Feet!

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Oiio studio has unveiled designs for curved skyscraper 'The Big Bend' as solution to expensive zoning laws

Manhattan tower was imagined as a structure to straddle Billionaire's Row on 57th Street in New York City

The concept tower would need a two-track elevator system that could go round curves and move horizontally

" The race to build the world’s most spectacular skyscraper has reached new heights - and taken a turn in direction.Designs for ‘The Big Bend’, a slender tower that would transform Manhattans’s skyline, have been unveiled.Described as the ‘longest building in the world’, the project's concept drawings reveal a skyscraper reaching an apex then curving back down. And featuring an elevator system that can travel in curves, horizontally and in loops."

"The studio explained: ‘New York city’s zoning laws have created a peculiar set of tricks through which developers try to maximise their property’s height in order to infuse it with the prestige of a high rise structure. But what if we substituted height with length? What if our buildings were long instead of tall?

‘If we manage to bend our structure instead of bending the zoning rules of New York we would be able to create one of the most prestigious buildings in Manhattan. The longest building in the world."