Do All Buildings Have 13th Floors

It is because of the disorder triskaidekaphobia and a general dislike of or superstition regarding the number 13.

Do all buildings have 13th floors.

Some hotels skip the number 13 and go straight to 14 when numbering floors. Samuel lewis general manager of the lefrak management company told the new york times that the superstition has now affected the overwhelming majority of tall buildings in america. So if it goes up to floor 15 then it only really has 14 stories. Doesn t have a 13 th floor.

Owners are simply afraid people won t rent. Why is this and do all builders do this. Business owners builders and developers tend to omit the 13 th floor from office buildings and apartment complexes because they may lose out on tenants who refuse to live or work on the 13 th floor. While the 14 th floor is actually the 13 th floor for obvious structural reasons guests seem to take comfort in the fact that the number 13 is not mentioned at all.

Even building owners who are not themselves superstitious realize that the desirability of units on the 13th floor might be compromised because of superstitious tenants or commercial tenants who worry about losing superstitious. The empire state building one of the most famous buildings in the world has a 13th floor. Fairmont hotels in acapulco quebec city and vancouver don t have a 13th floor. Because of this many hotels and other high rise buildings will eliminate at 13th floor either skipping to floor 14 or.

If you took a survey of high rises i think you d find 90 percent don t have a 13th floor. The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky. Buildings with more than 13 floors skipped the unlucky number. Is this some superstition that architects have with the number 13 andrea lakeview.

This is true for other tall buildings as well. I have noticed that most high rise buildings i have been in that are more than 13 stories skip floor 13. These days it s practically scripture. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.

In some countries as it is here in the united states the number 13 is considered unlucky and building owners will sometimes purposefully omit a floor numbered 13. Many people have a fear of the number 13 believing it to be unlucky. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the. A spokesman for otis international the elevator maker once estimated that 85 percent of u s.

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