One-third of the height of the tallest buildings in the world are absolutely useless

Leader in futility - the hotel "Ukraine" in Moskve

recent Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (Eng. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - CTBUH) has published data on the use of the highest skyscrapers on the planet, according to which a large part of the height of Buildings not used, and does not bear any payload.



If 44-of-77 from the main skyscrapers of the planet, "select" these worthless meters, they will lose their "exclusive" status. The building with the relatively low altitude performance - the hotel "Ukraine", 42% of the height is unfounded from a practical point of view, while the second place belongs to the Burj Al Arab (Dubai hotel), 39% of its height ineffective, although in general among Dubai skyscrapers highest rate of usable space - only about 1% of the height of these buildings is not used.



Of course, architects often adorn their creations various spiers and other structures designed to raise the "credibility" of the building to an unattainable height, however, is still to think, it is good these facilities, if creators sought only as much as possible to overshadow environmental "giants" architecture. This, even very large-scale and time-consuming, but the hype of the people is called "show-off».

via factroom.ru