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Image japanese skyswcrapers with missing floors.
Similarly new buildings in some parts of china avoid the fourth fourteenth twenty fourth etc.
Japanese skyscraper is torn down.
From its completion in 1958 and until the opening of the tokyo skytree in 2011 tokyo tower retained the title of tallest structure in japan aside from various guyed masts that were built in the 1960s and 1970s later dismantled in the 1990s.
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The aka puri was loved by so many people and so many.
Japanese architecture buildings houses from japan contemporary japanese architecture is a mixture of traditional design practices and modern western aesthetics.
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One floor at a time.
An elevator control panel in a residential apartment building in shanghai with floor numbers 4 13 and 14 missing.
This is a list of buildings that once held the title of tallest building in japan.
In japan skyscrapers have to be able to move.
Floor 4 is missing because of the very similar pronunciation of four and death in mandarin chinese.
Floors as the word four hanzi.
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Every second floor all the way up to the top you can reduce that motion to a much smaller amount.
Examples of unlucky floor numbers that usually omitted in elevators all numbers ending with four 4 in chinese culture fourth floor is usually omitted from most elevator fixtures in a chinese building this is because the number means death 死 it was considered that the number 4 in putunghua means sì while death is sǐ and cantonese means sei3 while death is sei2.
Which is in keeping with the erstwhile image of the hotel as a landmark.
This data is thus subject to change until the building has completed and all information can be confirmed and ratified by the ctbuh.
Floor 13 is missing due to triskaidekaphobia.