Storey
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A storey or story, is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people. Plurals for the word are storeys and stories.
A large elevator panel in a North American high-rise omits several floors as well as designating three separate levels as penthouse floors.
An elevator control panel in an apartment building in Shanghai. Floors 4, 13 and 14 are missing.
Letter boxes of a residential building built in the 1970s in Hong Kong. The Chinese and English floor numberings use the traditional Chinese and the British systems, respectively, resulting in different numbers.
A Dover Custom Impulse elevator control panel with floor numbering. In most buildings in the US and Canada with more than 12 floors, there is no floor numbered 13. The ☆ indicates the main entry floor.
Tower block
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A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building; it is defined differently in terms
A newer high-rise tower in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey, known as the Hub City. High-rise towers often anchor central business districts.
High-rise towers in Vilnius Central Business District, Lithuania
The Majakka high-rise building in Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland
The first high-rise in Jakarta, Indonesia was Wisma 46 (262 m), which held the longest record, of 20 years, as the highest building in Jakarta.