ushahid
Senior Member
the title still says 341 m, it was chopped down to 305 m. right?
Where do they get 80 storeys from? 12 storeys were removed from the 84 storey version to get it down to a shadowing-neutral height.
Here's how they get it: renumbering. The former mezzanine is now the 2nd storey. Each of the extra-high mechanical sections is now numbered to have two floors. The top level (which is essentially access to the roof garden) is now numbered too. 80 storeys.
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I wonder if planning has a consistent methodology for floor counting.
AoD
Nothing they stick to relentlessly as far as I can tell, but then most buildings are much simpler than this one. Usually mezzanines are as tricky as it gets: "is that 2, or M?"
Don't know if anyone noticed this on that Final Report, but it measured One Bloor East at 279m tall...