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A balcony built so you can pay to feel small.
means A platform or floor near the top of a tall building, ship, or other structure, built specifically to let visitors look out over the surrounding view.
from A straightforward compound: 'observation' from Latin observare — 'to watch, to guard, to keep an eye on' — and 'deck,' a word that started out meaning the covering of a ship (related to Dutch dek, a roof or covering) before stretching to mean any flat platform level. The two words bolted together in the age of skyscrapers and ocean liners, once engineers realized that a flat surface with a rail and a view was something people would happily queue up and pay for.
- origin
- Skyscrapers added them to justify the height
- business model
- Charges admission to look out a window
- best feature
- Makes your city look rentable
- irony
- Best view of the building is outside it