Counted The Floors Of This Building From The Street

Let s take a look at a small but important difference in british and american english.

Counted the floors of this building from the street.

What does wells mean when he remarks to the man who hired wells i counted the floors of this building from the street. You get in and have buttons 1 7 for their corresponding floors. Mezzanines may or may not be counted as storeys. You would only notice this if you counted the actual floors from the outside of the building which is exactly what carson did.

So if there were 20 actual floors on the building that you could count from the street and then you got into an elevator that skips the number 13 then the elevator would say there s 21 floors. A seven storey building is unambiguous although the top floor would be called 6th floor in britain and 7th floor in america. But in america floors are divided as level 1 level 2 level 3 etc. They skip over 13.

In all english speaking countries the storeys in a building are counted in the same way. In british english the floor of a building at street level is called the ground floor the floor above it is the first floor and the floor below is called the basement. This typically happens when both floors have street level entrances as. In being john malkovich craig schwartz works on the 7 1 2 floor of the mertin flemmer building it isn t a secret or anything it s just an architectural oddity created to access the portal into john malkovich.

So riding the elevator seems normal. The entire premise for the movie the thirteenth floor hinged on this. The floor area of a building is the sum of the gross area of each floor of the building excluding mechanical space cellar space floor space in open balconies elevators or stair bulkheads and in most zoning districts floor space used for accessory parking that is located less than 23 feet above curb level. Ground floor is the nearest floor of the ground.

The supreme court building houses the supreme court of the united states completed in 1935 it is in washington d c. In american english however the floor at street level is usually called the first floor. However all buttons starting with 4 are really mislabeled in order to hide the 4th floor. Without a button it can only be accessed by using the emergency stop on the elevator halfway between floors 7 and.

The naming of floors in a building. So you saw 20 floors from the street but the building is taking you to the 21st floor. A floor of a building is divided as ground floor 1st floor 2nd floor and so on. In britain it is called ground floor and in america it is called level 1.