SOM completes double-cantilevered Manhattan Loft Gardens tower
Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London's 2012 Olympic Games park.
Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) engineered the concrete and steel frame so that it could accommodate three sky-gardens notched into the 42-storey building.
The 42-storey tower has three sky-gardens
Most of the floors of Manhattan Loft Gardens are supported by a cantilevered perimeter truss system at levels 10 and 28.
This means that
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