Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings has envisioned a double cantilever for the Manhattan Loft Gardens located in Stratford, east London that overlooks London's 2012 Olympic Games Park. The 42-storey, 143-metre-high tower has been engineered by a cantilevered perimeter truss system at levels 10 and 28 so as to accommodate three sky-gardens. This was made possible by creating open spaces within the tower, which stands on top of a rectangular podium. The post-tensioning methods that were employed to successfully employ this method required engineering on a scale usually reserved for infrastructure projects. The building will house 248 apartments which have a mix of 13 typologies but all of them continuing to follow an industrial theme throughout the apartments which include white-painted steel girders and raw concrete walls, plus a destination restaurant.  It will also have timber paneling clads on the underside of the overhanging levels which are present on the 7th, 25th, and 36th stories.

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