I am curious why Europe don't have any high rise like over 500 meters buildings? Alot of Eurpoean artichets proposed a tall towers to Asia, but why not Europe? Is there any height restricts there?
Actually there is 612 meters tall building is approved in Moscow and is currently on the plot preparation state. 448 meters tall is also under construction.
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the tallest building in europe East Tower: core - 11 levels (41,0m) / floorplates - 10 levels (37,2m) West Tower: core - 62 levels (232,0m) / floorplates - 62 levels (232,0m)
In case of Germany there are height restrictions. But I think even without height restrictions few German companies would want to build such supertalls as their are economically not interesting.
That's an interesting question but perhaps there is no one particular reason to indicate it in the answer. Perhaps there is a combination of reasons. I however wouldn't mind seeing more taller skyscrapers in the European cities. They DO make cities look more attractive and sexy.
I guess Europeans in general are not used to live high above the ground.
There is a tendancy of living in houses or low scrapers altough a few cities like Rotterdam are really building new tall residential towers.
In larger cities like Paris or London there are since many decades many tall buildings but there are no plans to built higher towers, perhaps Moscow is the only exeption.
Honestly I cannot imagine Dubaiesque situations on the old continent altough some seaside resorts along the Mediterrenean coastline like Benidorm is the closest by far.
Asian situations are not at all to be found here; look what the several new towns of the 60's & 70's brought
Well I am more likely talking about England, Germany, France, Spain, any countries at West Europe. I know they have really wonder design of towers, but not the supertalls. I think some of you might be right, they just don't like supertalls or don't need supertalls.
I once read that in case of Frankfurt investment costs per sqm are initially sinking with height but once you approach the 200m mark they begin to stagnate and then rise again which makes buildings above that height uneconomical. Where that point is depends mostly on two factors: land price and quality of the ground (i.e. soft sands or hard rock). The higher the land price and the harder and stable the ground, the more height it takes until construction efforts and costs rise so fast that you reach an economical ceiling
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