Why are skyscrapers built thin, instead of stacking 100 arenas on top of each other?
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A few reasons:
1) Because arena-sized parcels of land are incredibly rare in areas where land is expensive enough to warrant building skyscrapers. Where would you build an arena-sized skyscraper in NYC for instance?
2) Because it would be extremely difficult to design enough light and windows into such a thing. If it was literally like the size of a stadium but vertical, you have vast areas in the middle with no natural light, which no one wants.
3) Because it would be very hard to get planning approval for such a behemoth. Cities generally don’t want gigantic monoliths like that. Here’s a bit of an example: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/clearly-dropped-the-ball-marvel-stadium-precinct-development-plans-slammed-as-embarrassing/news-story/b9143e8768691ffe3ed4de27adb5e54b?amp
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