13th Floor High Rise Buildings
Before the city skyline featured lofty skyscrapers architectural critics cautioned that buildings surpassing 13 stories would ensconce the town in shadows and create dark and unlivable conditions.
13th floor high rise buildings. It s also possible that 13th floor aversion is prevalent in nyc due to initial architectural concerns about erecting too tall buildings. This is true for other tall buildings as well. These days it s practically scripture. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.
If you live in a newly built high rise building in vancouver you may have noticed a few missing floors. If you took a survey of high rises i think you d find 90 percent don t have a 13th floor. That s an estimate based on 650 mid and high rise buildings that have filed condo declarations with new york city since 2003 including luxury towers going up right now such as 53w53 and 225 w. 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.
The 13th floor has long been skipped out of superstition with elevator buttons jumping directly from the 12th to the 14th floor. 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. Some hotels skip the number 13 and go straight to 14 when numbering floors.