Studio Dror challenges trend of ultra-slim towers by unveiling three innovative building designs

New York-based <a href="http://www.studiodror.com/for/" target="_blank">Studio Dror</a> has just unveiled three cutting-edge residential towers designed for three different New York neighborhoods. Through the innovative conceptual designs - two of which were solicited by developers - the prolific design team is hoping to encourage discussion and debate about the city's need for new <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/category/architecture/" target="_blank">architectural</a> typologies.

The design studio created two of the tower designs at the request of developors and the third one is a conceptual project.

The first design, created for 100 Varick, is 25 stories of irregularly stacked glass cubes surrounded by a steel frame.

Inspired by Norman Foster's diagrid efficiency, the tower is framed with Studio Dror's own structural geometric exoskeleton system called QuaDror .

The proposed design for 100 Varick uses Studio Dror's own structural frame called QuaDror.

The second tower, proposed for 350 Bowery, is a residential tower for a vacant plot at Bowery Street.

The third design is a 1,000-foot tower design was inspired by a pinwheel shape, and uses an "off-set" cross design to attach each individual apartment by their corners.