(07-27-2021, 02:35 PM)Lebronj23 Wrote:(06-30-2021, 08:32 PM)ac3r Wrote: Um so now this building is apparently 42 floors...? Does anyone know what the floor count is, including the mechanical floor? If anyone lives downtown, maybe they could count them. I ask because I just found a thread on Reddit with a photograph taken by - I presume - a construction worker. The thread is titled "KW from 42 stories High". Someone asked what the count is but there was never a reply to the question: https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchener/comme...ries_high/
And if it's 40 or 42 floors, I guess it's a lot higher than the 128 meter height that was in the architectural CAD files.
41 or 42? I can’t read these things
It's 39 floors. Mechanical penthouses aren't really factored into the floor count at the end of the day. Technically they're floors, but when we talk about building floor counts in architecture, you only count the amount of usable/livable floors (though if you have, say a couple levels of above ground parking, that is often included).
When measuring building height, you can do it two ways. Well, in architecture we measure everything. But when representing height to the public, the standard is to measure to the top of the building (which includes mechanical penthouses). At times, however, things like spires, antennas and so on are included. This is only ever done for bragging rights since we wouldn't really consider an antenna as being part of the building. Spires are different, but usually we differentiate between actual building height and height including the spire.
Architectural drawings can be confusing to understand at first. Autodesk has a good page on AutoCAD (which is primarily what firms in North America use - Europe prefers ArchiCAD), with lots of pages on the meanings of drawings and how to understand them. Architizer has a good list of various symbols that you see in drawings as well. The entire Practice page has great resources for learning all about how architecture is produced if you're curious.