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The race to build the world’s tallest skyscraper has reached new heights - and taken a turn in direction.

Designs for ‘The Big Bend’, a slender tower that would transform Manhattan’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.

In a bid to work around the challenges of New York’s zoning laws, design studio Oiio has imagined an innovative concept to straddle across Billionnaire’s Row on 57th Street.

what the fuck is this 

It’s why people hate New York.

Oh great there’s going to be a giant fucking paperclip in my skyline. Fucking neato

It looks like you’re baiting disaster! 
Would you like help?

So, does the elevator, traversing the curved shaft, leave its passengers upside-down when it heads down the other side of the building? Do the people in the floors at the apex of the arch end up sideways?

Maybe the shaft widens and the elevator stays level. Maybe there’d be some unanticipated tuning fork resonance stuff too.

Regardless, it’s just a thing that an architecture firm suggested. It will almost certainly never be built.

It’s them– the architects Eliezer warned us about.