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inhabitant would enjoy "the illusion of living on the second floor", accomplished by folding concrete floor planes (like "bamboo mats," claims the firm), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard. In the larger towers, the two-story units are stacked slightly askew, adding to the visual interest of the variegated façades (Goldhagen 2012)."
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estate. These eleven-story towers were completed in 1961 and were the first tall council housing blocks on the island of Ireland. The NIHT also designed the inner city Divis Flats complex. The six-to-eight-storey deck-access flats that comprised most of the Divis estate were of poor build quality and
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were originally designed to house young "swinging single" middle class residents, but the apartments lacked appeal and the area quickly became much poorer. From its early days of implementation the concept was criticised for making residents feel unsafe, including large empty common areas dominated
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was motorized by Magirus in 1904. The definition of a maximum of 22 meters for the highest floor was common in the building regulations at the time and it is still so today in Germany. The common height for turntable ladders did later go to 32 meters (100 feet), so that 30 meter is a common limit in
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Deck access is a type of flat that is accessed from a walkway that is open to the elements, as opposed to flats that are accessed from fully enclosed internal corridors. Deck-access blocks of flats are usually fairly low-rise structures. The decks can vary from simple walkways, which may be covered
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depending on their height. Tall residential towers are a staple building type in all large cities. Their relative prominence in Canadian cities varies substantially, however. In general, more populated cities have more high-rises than smaller cities, due to a relative scarcity of land and a greater
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Although Tower blocks are controversial and numerous examples have been demolished, many still remain in large cities. Due to lack of proper regulation, some tower blocks present a significant fire risk and even though there have been efforts to make them more safe, modern safety precautions can be
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The ideal of Streets in the Sky often did not work in practice. Unlike an actual city street, these walkways were not thoroughfares, and often came to a dead end multiple storeys above the ground. They lacked a regular flow of passers-by, and the walkways and especially the stairwells could not be
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The 2012 Pritzker Prize was awarded to Chinese architect Wang Shu. Among his winning designs is the Vertical Courtyard Apartments, six 26-story towers by his architectural firm Amateur Architecture Studio built in Hangzhou. "These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, in which every
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took charge and flats were let to low income and immigrant families. During the 1980s many people escaping communism in Eastern bloc countries were housed in these buildings. Developers have enthusiastically adopted the term "apartment" for these new high-rise blocks, perhaps to avoid the stigma
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Toronto contains the second largest concentration of high-rise apartment buildings in North America (after New York). In Canada, like in other New World countries, but unlike Western Europe, most high-rise towers are located in the city centre (or "downtown"), where smaller, older buildings were
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built three thirteen-story towers for use as staff accommodation, prominently located adjacent to the M2 Motorway at Broadway. Belfast City Hospital also constructed a high-rise slab block which since privatisation has been named Bradbury Court, formerly known as Erskine House. Queens University
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In the United States, tower blocks are commonly referred to as "midrise" or "highrise apartment buildings", depending on their height, while buildings that house fewer flats (apartments), or are not as tall as the tower blocks, are called "lowrise apartment buildings". Specifically, "midrise"
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schemes (most notably the now demolished Unity Flats and the Weetabix Flats in the Shankill area), New Lodge was its only high-rise project in the inner city; there were three more in outlying areas of the city during the 1960s, two being in Mount Vernon in North Belfast and one being in the
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fire in 2017 was partly caused by council ignorance, as a local action group complained to the council about the fire hazards of the tower several years before the incident, yet remedial work had not been carried out. This fire further made tower blocks less desirable to British residents.
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some building regulations today, for example in Switzerland. Any building that exceeds the height of the usual turntable ladders in a city must install additional fire safety equipment, so that these high-rise buildings have a different section in the building regulations in the world.
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In Eastern European countries, opinions about these buildings vary greatly, with some deeming them as eyesores on their city's landscape while others glorify them as relics of a bygone age and historical examples of unique architectural styles (such as socialist realism,
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due to the severe damages that Polish cities sustained during World War II. Throughout the former Eastern Bloc countries, tower blocks built during the Soviet years make up much of the current housing estates and most of them were built in the specific
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until the 1960s, when a short-lived fashion saw public housing tenants located in new high-rise developments, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. The buildings pictured along with four other 16-story blocks were constructed on behalf of the
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were the largest social housing scheme in Europe when built in 1972 but lasted just 22 years. The Crescents had one of the worst reputations of any British social housing schemes and were marred by numerous design and practical problems.
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In Western Europe, there are fewer high-rise buildings because of the historic city centres. In the 1960s, developers began demolishing older buildings to replace them with modern high-rise buildings.
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Residential tower complexes are common in Asian countries such as China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan, Iran and South Korea, as urban densities are very high. In
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counterparts, commercially developed high-rise apartment buildings continue to flourish in cities around the country largely due to high land prices and the housing boom of the 2000s. The
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and wind danger concerns are addressed. In order to allow less wind exposure, to transmit more daylight to the ground and to appear more slender, many high-rises have a design with
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The government's experiments in the 1960s and 1970s to use high-rise apartments as a means of providing the housing solution for the poor broadly resulted in failure. Made in the
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states, a majority of the population lives in flats in Latvia (65.1%), Estonia (63.8%), Lithuania (58.4%), Czech Republic (52.8%), and Slovakia (50.3%) (as of 2014, data from
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In Seoul, approximately 80 percent of its residents live in apartment complexes which comprise 98 percent of recent residential construction. Seoul proper is noted for its
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high-rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building surrounded by a swath of landscaped land; e.g., the tower does not directly front the street.
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song "Running to Stand Still". They have since been demolished. Inner Dublin flat complexes, typically of 4-5 storeys include Sheriff Street (demolished),
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were built between 1966 and 1969: seven 15-story towers, nineteen 8-story blocks and ten 4-story blocks. These were the "seven towers" referred to in the
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The International Conference on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings defined a high-rise as "any structure where the height can have a serious impact on
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culture and crime. The layout was criticised for normalising anti-social behaviour and hampering the efforts of essential services, particularly for
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also had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were
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defines a high-rise as "A multi-story structure between 35–100 metres (115–328 ft) tall, or a building of unknown height from 12–39 floors."
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remains, although so too the problems that residents face, such as poor piping and limited sanitation. Farther north, the four tower blocks in
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cities was dominated by large numbers of high-rising urban towers, which fulfilled defensive but also representative purposes. The residential
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Most building engineers, inspectors, architects and similar professionals define a high-rise as a building that is at least 75 feet tall.
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were typically occupied by either shops or wealthy families, while the upper stories were rented out to the lower classes. Surviving
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and were available to sailors and their families for accommodation. Due to social problems within these blocks the Navy left and the
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Frykholm, H. (2023). ‘A Village Stood on End’: Anthropology and the Interior of the Modernist Tower. Fabrications, 33(2), 359–377.
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Belfast built several eleven storey towers at its Queens Elms student accommodation. Of the three sixteen-story point blocks of
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constructed seven tower blocks on the former Victoria Barracks site in the New Lodge district. While the Corporation built some
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By the early 1970s, opposition to this style of towers mounted, with many, including urban planners, now referring to them as "
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seen by anyone elsewhere, so there was no deterrent to crime and disorder. There were no "eyes on the street" as advocated by
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were all demolished by the early 1990s. Similar slab blocks were built by the NIHT in East Belfast (Tullycarnet) and Derry's
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housed many high-rise residential buildings, some seven stories tall that could reportedly accommodate hundreds of people.
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The history of microdistricts as an urban planning concept dates back to the 1920s, when the Soviet Union underwent rapid
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aimed at reducing the problem of urban congestion. It was introduced in several large cities across the world, notably in
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and single-family houses, apartment blocks accommodate more inhabitants per unit of area of land and decrease the cost of
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witnessed new large apartment building, although their heights have generally been restricted. Some large towns such as
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or uncovered, to decks wide enough for small vehicles. The best-known example of deck-access flats in the UK is
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The majority of residential high-rise buildings in the Republic of Ireland were concentrated in the suburb of
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in New York City, featuring high-rise apartments, is the wealthiest urban neighborhood in the United States.
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provides a more successful example of the concept, with the fifth floor walkway including a shop and café.
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towers in Manhattan, New York City, completed in 1939. Their cross-shaped design was copied in towers in
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dominate the local skyline, while in south Belfast, the tower blocks in Seymour Hill, Belvoir and
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Tower blocks in Northern Ireland were never built to the frequency as in cities on the island of
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Residential tower blocks were previously uncommon outside of Dublin, but during the era of the
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buildings are as tall as the streets are wide, allowing five hours of sunlight on the street.
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evacuations pose significant problems. Studies are often required to ensure that pedestrian
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resulted from two main factors: the postwar housing shortage and the ideology of the
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numbered between 80 and 100 at a time, the largest of which still rise to 97.2 m. In
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defines a high-rise as being higher than 75 feet (23 m), or about seven stories.
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in the city centre. In the north of the city, the iconic seven-tower complex in the
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that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Generally built to replace run-down
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Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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structures designed to be easily defensible in the forms of Weilongwu (围龙屋) and
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The engineer's definition of high-rise buildings comes from the development of
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region or if the underlying soils have geotechnical risk factors such as high
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There are old high-rise buildings built in the 1960s and 1970s in areas of
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now either means an employer-provided housing or has a meaning similar to "
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drawn by horses was developed in 1892 which had a length of 25 meters. The
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Most of the aforementioned high-rise flats in the city were built by the
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Currently, the tallest high-rise apartment building in the world is the
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style of architecture that was dominant in the territories east of the
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have also witnessed the construction of many modern apartment blocks.
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there are more apartment towers but they are greatly outnumbered by
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Other contemporary styles and movements in high-rise design include
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buildings in the world, some more than 30 metres (98 ft) high.
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have fewer high-rise buildings due to several factors: a focus on
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Index

High-rise buildings
High Rise
Tower Block (film)
Skyscraper

New Brunswick
New Jersey
central business districts

Majakka
Kalasatama
Helsinki
building
low-rise building
jurisdiction
residential
office building
hotel
retail
British English
skyscraper
elevator
structural system
reinforced concrete
steel
North American
skyscrapers
steel frame
structural
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