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A life of luxury in the world's skinniest skyscraper

Four residential skyscrapers in the Manhattan borough of New York City. [AP]

One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest - the world's skinniest, in fact.

The 84-storey residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of "most slender skyscraper in the world" thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2.

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