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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

Perfectly illustrating the difference between those who talk about tall buildings
and those who actually build tall buildings.

Buildings become less efficient the higher you go—geometrically so. There's the amount of floorspace required for elevators and exit stairs, the strength of the concrete, the time needed for construction. That's why the Spire went through three iterations, each trying to hang more units on the same set of elevator shafts.

Do you really think Related and SOM didn't run the numbers? Do you think they just picked the floor counts based on the CEO and his daughter's ages?

Is all of this encompassed under "premium for height", or does that just apply to structural integrity the higher you go up?