The wellbeing and mental health of occupants were integral to the brief Spiral's biophilic design – which gives access to outdoor space and better indoor air quality – contributes to that. Open-air garden terraces snake around the building – these double-height atriums on each floor, according to the publicity information, make a "unique hybrid that intertwines a continuous green pathway" spiralling up.ĭominyka Voelkle, an associate at BIG NYC, the architecture firm behind The Spiral, tells BBC Culture that it has "a very striking silhouette – modern and recognisable and yet very 'old New York', reminiscent of stepped, setback skyscrapers such as the Rockefeller Centre". The Spiral is a 66-floor structure that tapers skyward at 66 Hudson Boulevard its build cost, including site purchase, was $3.2 billion, and at just over 1,000-ft tall, it's one of the tallest buildings in the city. They're prevalent in man-made structures in art, design and architecture, both secular and sacred – such as the 9th-Century Great Mosque of Samarra or the Vatican Museum's spiral staircase.Īnd this mesmerising form is having a moment, with the imminent launch of what promises to be an iconic new skyscraper in New York.
There are various types, such as the logarithmic spiral, first described by Albrecht Durer in 1525 the Archimedean spiral, so called after the 3rd-Century BC Greek mathematician Fermat's spiral the helix and the vortex, to name a few.
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