I took your advice. The tallest masonry building in the world is Philadelphia City Hall, and is only 9 floors. It was surpassed by the Singer Building which had 41 floors, but was steel construction.
So the person you’re responding to is right. There’s no 25 story brick buildings anywhere in the world.
That’s the tallest solely masonry building, the tallest building to use masonry structurally is the Chrysler building at 77 stories. All of them are masonry buildings one of them is simply solely masonry.
OP’s picture doesn’t look like a steel frame structure to me. The stairways are usually a central part of a skyscraper frame, and this looks like freestanding masonry.
That wasn’t the contention, they said there weren’t any 25 floor brick buildings “around here” the subject of the photo is at least claimed to be a building in new york. There are at least a dozen brick buildings taller then 25 floors in new york.
“Around here” is wherever they live, and we don’t know because they didn’t say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.
Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op’s picture.
It’s around the subject, we already had a subject: the building. To be around themselves they would need to change the subject. Even given your example it’s not true, vicinity needs scale. The moon is around my vicinity if we use a stellar scale and there’s certainly a skyscraper closer to them than the moon.
That’s heavily dependent on era, size, region and quite honestly actual location in the building as well as height. Lots of early steel framed skyscrapers had traditional masonry lower stories that were wider than the steel framed core.
I took your advice. The tallest masonry building in the world is Philadelphia City Hall, and is only 9 floors. It was surpassed by the Singer Building which had 41 floors, but was steel construction.
So the person you’re responding to is right. There’s no 25 story brick buildings anywhere in the world.
Swing and a miss.
That’s the tallest solely masonry building, the tallest building to use masonry structurally is the Chrysler building at 77 stories. All of them are masonry buildings one of them is simply solely masonry.
OP’s picture doesn’t look like a steel frame structure to me. The stairways are usually a central part of a skyscraper frame, and this looks like freestanding masonry.
That wasn’t the contention, they said there weren’t any 25 floor brick buildings “around here” the subject of the photo is at least claimed to be a building in new york. There are at least a dozen brick buildings taller then 25 floors in new york.
“Around here” is wherever they live, and we don’t know because they didn’t say. For all we know they could live on a farm without a single skyscraper nearby and what they said would be perfectly true.
Regardless, the brick facades on steel skyscrapers does not make them masonry building construction like in Op’s picture.
It’s around the subject, we already had a subject: the building. To be around themselves they would need to change the subject. Even given your example it’s not true, vicinity needs scale. The moon is around my vicinity if we use a stellar scale and there’s certainly a skyscraper closer to them than the moon.
That’s heavily dependent on era, size, region and quite honestly actual location in the building as well as height. Lots of early steel framed skyscrapers had traditional masonry lower stories that were wider than the steel framed core.