3 Foot Deep Concrete Floors, Overkill?
I'm reading The Sky's the Limit by Steven Gaines, Passion and Property in Manhattan, and it touched on the famous Dakota Apartment Building on Central Park West opened in 1884, where John Lennon was killed outside the building in 1980.
In describing its construction, I wonder if they got it right in this book, as it seems too incredible to believe:
"built like the Pyramids, with floors 3 feet thick and load-bearing walls over 2 feet wide. It stood at 7 stories tall because that was all the weight its base could support."
OMG! Where, in the late 1880's did they get all that concrete? Overkill?
And today, what is the width of floors in modern concrete buildings?
I surmise, if there is a World War III, this building will survive! Anything!
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