Why do you need skyscrapers?

Answer 1

We do not need skyscrapers, yet people choose to build them for several reasons. They are built so that many living spaces or office spaces can exist on a smaller piece of land. Since land is expensive, it may be cheaper to build up rather than outward on the ground. They may also be built for aesthetic reasons: to beautify an area, to attract toursists, to improve the appearance of big cities, or to compete with other skyscraper designs.

Answer 2

Sky scrapers are important as status symbols for individuals and corporates.

Very occasionally, a tall structure is needed for technical reasons, such as the CP tower in Canada, needed high for communication.

In a city, they are often claimed to save space, but central Washington gets along just fine without them. ["No building shall be taller than the Capitol"?? ]

A better solution is to have bigger city blocks filled up to about six stories.

Answer 3

The amount of square footage needed, land prices, and the desire to be in a given location determines building height.

It's always cheaper to engineer and build a 1-story building. But if you need 1 million square feet, and you need it in Manhatten where a half acre would cost millions, you can't afford to level blocks of skyscrapers to build something shaped like a mall.

There is always a perfect ratio relative to the building's height compared to the price of the dirt under it. When land prices are high due to location, you save money by building narrower and going higher. If the cost of additional floors outweighs the land costs, then you buy a bigger lot and add to the square footage on each floor. Since businesses are moving to the suburbs these days, lots are cheaper than in downtown New York for example. So a builder in a further-out locale can buy more land cheap, and build a long and flat structure.

Answer 4

Skyscrapers were needed do that buildings could accommodate more people without taking up any more land. They went up, instead of out.

Answer 5

They want to fit more people into the building.

Answer 6

If the building was rigid and there was a storm, then the building would just break up and disintegrate.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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