Comment by 2rsf

that's not how it works, nowadays concrete columns are the thing that supports the weight of the building, the space between the columns is then filled with bricks.

Floors are usually made of thinner concrete, although sometimes a design of concrete mesh is used to save weight with the gaps filled with Styrofoam or light bricks, and then a thin layer of concrete is poured on it to serve as the foundation to the floor tiles.

The concrete floors also serve an important goal of supporting and delivering horizontal forces in the building.

This means that there is no technical limit to the height of bricks buildings, although there might be practical reasons not to use them.

Below is an example of how it looks [0]

In the not so distant past bricks used to carry the load of the building, and indeed that has limitations to how high buildings can be,

[0] https://globalist.in/tk-cement-interlock-brick-kuttippuram/b...