Penthouse apartment

A penthouse is an apartment or housing unit traditionally on the highest floor of an apartment building, condominium, hotel, or tower. The term "penthouse" originally referred, and sometimes still does refer, to a separate smaller "house" that was constructed on the roof of an apartment building. Architecturally, it refers specifically to a structure on the roof of a building that is set back from its outer walls.

These structures do not have to occupy the entire roof deck.

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