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Tournesol
Jul 5, 2008, 7:22 PM
Official sources: NCC (developer) (http://www.ncc.dk/da/NCCBolig/Se-boliger/Fyrtarnet-i-Kobenhavn/)
Unofficial sources: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=fyrtarnet-copenhagen-denmark

Building Name: Fyrtårnet
Native Name:
Other Names:
Address:
City: Copenhagen
Postal Code:
State/Province:
Country: Denmark
Official Building Website URL:
Skyscrapers.com (Emporis.info) URL: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=fyrtarnet-copenhagen-denmark
Architect: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
Interesting Facts/Records (in own words):

Heights--

PLEASE PROVIDE SOURCES FOR HEIGHTS, OTHERWISE WE WILL ASSUME THEY ARE ESTIMATES.
- antenna:
- spire:
- roof: 48 m (source: Developers site in danish, but the height 48 m can be found in the text (http://www.ncc.dk/da/NCCBolig/Se-boliger/Fyrtarnet-i-Kobenhavn/))
- top floor:
- other heights:

Current Building Status (Built, Proposed, Canceled, Destroyed, etc...): Built

Construction Dates--
- started:
- finished:
- destroyed:


Above ground floors: 15
Below ground floors:
Floor-to-floor height:
Gross Floor area:
Elevator count:
Unit count:

Structure Type(s):
Building Use(s): residential
Building Style(s):
Building Materials:

vid
Jul 5, 2008, 11:25 PM
I've added it and you can find it here: http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=78203

If I made any mistakes please let me know. Thanks. :)

Tournesol
Jul 7, 2008, 9:14 AM
Thanks for updating VID.
But why the 47.9 meters and not 48? None of the sources says 47.9 as far as i can see. I think it might be a case of converting feet to meters, but since this is a european building the height in meters is the original and feet's are the converted height.

So a more correct height wuold be 48 meters / 157.5 feet

Could that be changed please?

Thanks in advance :)

vid
Jul 8, 2008, 8:42 PM
LMich changed the height. What Emporis did is took the height (48m) and converted it to feet (157.48ft, rounded down to 157ft) to display both heights on its building page. What LMich did is look at the height feet (157ft) and converted it back to meters (47.86m, rounded up to 47.9m.) It's like translating a sentence from English into Danish and then back to English. Things are lost in translation. ;)

Aside from that, Emporis, the cited source, says 48m, so it would be a bad reference to not use 48m. It's also a secondary reference--I put down the building's official website (a primary reference) and he changed it to Emporis. It's like quoting a newspaper to quote a report instead of quoting the report itself. (I edit on Wikipedia a lot, and we're advised to not do that.) You end up with slightly innacurate information. ;)

Tournesol
Jul 10, 2008, 3:55 PM
I figured that was the reason...

Thanks :)