Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Do buildings not have a 13th floor.
And others are sneaky and find ways to get around it like floor 12a.
Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller.
Prices for 13th floor apartments the handful of them that exist don t sell at a discount according to jonathan.
Real estate agents tend not to have problems selling units on the particular floor but the fact is that most buildings lack them anyway.
Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was.
The habit of leaving out the 13th floor in tall hotels is a relatively new one.
Of course not all hotels skip the 13th floor.
More than 80 percent of high rises lack a 13th floor.
A good example is that some have suggested the 13th floor in government buildings is not really missing but actually contains top secret governmental departments or more generally that it is proof of something sinister or clandestine going on.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Eventually this time and culture spanning superstition made its way to the architecture of america.
Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885.
However during the advent of early skyscrapers new york architectural critics warned developers not to exceed the height of the 13th floor.
But as rational thought will dictate hotels and buildings higher than 12 floors of course have a 13th floor however they do away with it by simply renaming it something else.
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 streets in florence italy the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.
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.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
They didn t want to give anyone a reason not to want to rent space in their building.
In fact the otis elevators company estimates that 85 of the buildings with their elevators don t have a named 13th floor.
These critics insisted that buildings rising above the 13th floor 130 feet or 40 metres would lead to increased street congestion ominous shadows and lower.
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Many cities do not.
