How Many Stairs Are You Willing to Climb to Your Apartment?

"With 47 floors of living space it was intended to be the tallest residential building in Europe…The towers were originally designed to be only 20 floors high, but ambitious developers decided to double the scale of the project midway through.

A lift exists for the first 20 floors, but beyond that there is only the stairs. And reports seen by Spain’s El Pais newspaper suggest there is no more space for another lift or motor equipment."

Not that many.

Must have been designed by a defense contractor.

All of them.

I spent a summer in an Italian 100-step walkup, no air conditioning. I rarely went out more than twice a day.

I can only assume that the developers had no particular moneteray incentive in the units being sold. This obviously can’t be any kind of mistake, so whoever had this built probably knew he would get some profit just from building it, regardless of whether it could be inhabited or not. The alternative (nobody in charge noticing that elevators were missing and that it would be a problem) seems impossible.

Depends on all the usual factors - rent/cost and neighborhood and amenities and so on.

I wonder if it would be even possible to find a moving company willing to get your furniture up to the top floor of the place.

edit: After reading the article I’m not sure if you could pay me to live there. Sounds like it could collapse at any minute.

Top floor would be fine with me, once I get my jetpack.

Think of it as a fitness plan disguised as an apartment. Guaranteed to keep you trim and slim.

And furniture-free.

It is an unusable building. It will have to be torn down and re-built. I’d hate to be the architect, or whoever decided to change the building from 20 to 47 floors.

We live on the sixth floor and routinely walk up. It’s about the only exercise we get. I’d say that’s about the limit. If we were on the 7th floor, I might be taking the elevator.

The OP’s linked article is way better than the one in my thread about this… :slight_smile:

I could live on the top floors if there is a helipad.
And I’m a billionaire and could afford a helicopter.

Eh, why don’t they just stop building it?

They still had parts left over.

It’s the perfect building for base jumpers. They’ll climb anything.

It’s the perfect building for me, I can only count to 20 in Spanish, so anything above that doesn’t really exist.

But really, can’t you add on an outside elevator?

Looks like any strap-on elevator would probably peel off at the next full moon…

Anytime somebody starts talking about strap-on’s, I get nervous.