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It's not "sacrificing" square footage for height, it's just encountering diminishing returns. To say it's sacrificing for height, means square footage decreases
by margalabargala 1y ago
It's not "sacrificing" square footage for height, it's just encountering diminishing returns. To say it's sacrificing for height, means square footage decreases with increased height.
What actually happens is square footage per floor decreases with increased height. But a 20 or 80 story building still has strictly much more square footage than a 15 story one, perhaps excepting the absolute narrowest buildings.
- QuantumGood 1y agoProfit per floor can decrease as well, due to increased costs of the structure.
- margalabargala 1y agoSure, but total profit still goes up. And due to the premium you can charge for the upper floors, there's eventually an inflection point where profit per floor starts increasing again.