A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined differently in …

Tower blocks are high-rise buildings for residential use. These blocks began to be built in Great Britain after the Second World War. The first residential tower block, "The Lawn", was …

tower block - tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments; "`tower block' is the British term for `high-rise'"

Skyscrapers, high-rise buildings, tower blocks, blocks of flats – whatever you prefer to call them – many of these buildings now offer their residents luxury hotel like living, combining …

Increasingly, high-rise became associated with crime and a lack of community - from "streets in the sky" to "slums in the sky". Tower blocks gained an image problem that never completely …

Oct 23, 2019 · Those proposing to spruce up “structurally sound” and well built tower blocks under a “greener life” banner had better make sure they absolutely know which ones they are and, …

5 days ago · UK building regulations mandated reinforced concrete for the construction of tower blocks after a gas explosion at Ronan Point in Newham, east London, in 1968 saw part of it …

6 days ago · The government plans to take the tower, where a fire killed 72 people in 2017, down to ground level. ... The fire on 14 June 2017 was originally caused by a faulty fridge in a fourth …

On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, England, at 00:54 BST and burned for 60 hours. Seventy people …

15 hours ago · The new tower is the brand’s first real estate project in the US and one of the largest under construction in Florida. ... Block of flats evacuated after 'armed man' sends …