Newer buildings seem even likelier to skip 13 than older ones warshawer said.
Do buildings really skip the 13th floor.
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.
Is your hotel 13th floor missing.
Other buildings skip the number like 10 11 12 14.
Prices for 13th floor apartments.
Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms.
This is true for other tall buildings as well.
Some hotels skip the number 13 and go straight to 14 when numbering floors.
I am assuming that your question is why there are no residence on 13th floor.
According to municipality rules for high rise building it is mandatory to leave a floor vacant after every 24 metres.
Other buildings use the letter m mezzanine which is the 13th letter of the alphabet.
That means only 9 percent of the condos that actually have 13th floors label.
Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller.
It is closely related to having the fear of a superstitious day known as paraskavedekatriaphobia or the fear of friday the 13th.
For example some people us 12a instead of 13.
These floor are called refuge floors and are used.
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.
Eventually this time and culture spanning superstition made its way to the architecture of america.
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.
Starting in the 20th century when skyscrapers began cropping up in bigger cities buildings overwhelmingly forwent marking the 13th floor because of simple economics.