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A friend of mine used to be an architect, and I asked him once if it was possible to build a mile-high building. He said that it was technically possible but e
by spc476 13y ago
A friend of mine used to be an architect, and I asked him once if it was possible to build a mile-high building. He said that it was technically possible but economically unfeasible because it would be hard to rent all the space. The base of the building (X number of floors) would have to be huge, and most people want to rent suites (office or living space) with windows, leaving the deep interior bare of renters.
Perhaps a ring of stores, with the interior of the first floor or two as a parking garage, which are less desirable anyway?
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- dredmorbius 13y agoMany towers have multiple floors (I've seen as many as 10) of parking. Turning radiuses and building services (elevators, water, sewerage, cooling, electrical) limit the ability to restrict parking to interior cores, though automated parking systems might allow for this. Utilizing interior cores for warehousing/storage might also make some level of sense. I've also seen numerous buildings with large interior multi-floor (often the full building height) atria -- some quite beautiful in fact.