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The three tower blocks of the Crossways Estate in Bow, London, United Kingdom, before their refurbishment. Tower blocks are high-rise buildings for residential use. These blocks began to be built in Great Britain after the Second World War.
Tower blocks were first built in the United Kingdom after the Second World War, and were seen as a cheap way to replace 19th-century urban slums and war-damaged buildings. They were originally seen as desirable, but quickly fell out of favour as tower blocks attracted rising crime and social disorder, particularly after the collapse of Ronan ...
The United Kingdom cladding crisis, also known as the cladding scandal, is an ongoing social crisis that followed the Grenfell Tower fire of 14 June 2017 and the Bolton Cube fire of 15 November 2019. The fires revealed that large numbers of buildings had been clad in dangerously combustible materials, comprising a combination of flammable ...
Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, that partially collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it opened.A gas explosion blew out some load-bearing walls, causing the collapse of one entire corner of the building; four people died and 17 were injured.
Some of the tallest buildings in the city range from 1960s tower blocks, to new office developments such as 1 Atlantic Square, St Andrew House, the Argyle Building and the Livingstone Tower. The tallest building ever to have stood in Glasgow was the 91 m (299 ft) tall Tait Tower in Bellahouston , built for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, but ...
Tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London. As of 2025, it is the 12th-tallest by height and has the fourth highest floor count in the United Kingdom. [19] [20] 2 Beetham Tower: 169 (554) 47 2006 Hotel / Residential Castlefield Second-tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London. Roof height reaches 158 m (518 ft). [21] [22]
Only structures taller than 150 feet (46 m) are listed below. The city's current tallest structure is the 558-foot-tall Spinnaker Tower (170 m), which is also the tallest accessible structure in the United Kingdom outside London.
It consists of thirteen tower blocks (each over 52 metres (171 ft) high with at least 18 floors, constructed between 1963 and 1970), [4] amidst low rise flats and numerous houses. The area has two Roman Catholic schools (one being the nearby Our Lady's High School ), a non-denominational school, a community centre, several small shopping area ...