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  2. List of largest buildings - Wikipedia

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    1,575,815 m 2 (16,961,930 sq ft) [36] "The building is both the tallest and the largest in Saudi Arabia with a height of 1906 feet and a 16.9 million square feet floor area ... "[34] It's the third-tallest building and fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. Istanbul Airport Main Terminal Turkey: Istanbul: 1,440,000 m 2 (15,500,000 ...

  3. List of largest palaces - Wikipedia

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    The Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, with 1000 rooms on 13 levels, and over 130,000 square metres (1,400,000 sq ft) of floor space, [2] is one of the largest palaces in the world by floor area. It was the winter residence of the Dalai Lama until 1959. (Many sources [3] give the area as 360,000 square metres (3,900,000 sq ft).)

  4. Floor area - Wikipedia

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    Floor area. In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included, such as external walls, internal walls ...

  5. Square (unit) - Wikipedia

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    100. square metre. 9.29030. The square is an Imperial unit of area that is used in the construction industry in the United States and Canada, [ 1] and was historically used in Australia. One square is equal to 100 square feet. Examples where the unit is used are roofing shingles, metal roofing, vinyl siding, and fibercement siding products.

  6. Floor area ratio - Wikipedia

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    Floor Area ratio is sometimes called floor space ratio (FSR), floor space index (FSI), site ratio or plot ratio. The difference between FAR and FSI is that the first is a ratio, while the latter is an index. Index numbers are values expressed as a percentage of a single base figure. Thus an FAR of 1.5 is translated as an FSI of 150%.

  7. Executive Residence - Wikipedia

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    This level was added during the 1948–1952 renovation, [1] [2] [3] and contains the air conditioning and water softening equipment. [4] [5] [6] The sub-basement and mezzanine also contain storage areas, the heating system, elevator machinery rooms, an incinerator, a medical clinic, a dentist's office, [6] the electrical control system, [1] a laundry room, [6] [1] [7] and flatware and dishware ...

  8. Square foot - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar ...

  9. Prison cell - Wikipedia

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    The International Committee of the Red Cross recommends that cells be at least 5.4 m 2 (58 sq ft) in size for a single cell accommodation (one person in the cell). However, in shared or dormitory accommodations, it recommends a minimum of 3.4 m 2 (37 sq ft) per person, including in cells where bunk beds are used.