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The first residential tower block, "The Lawn", was constructed in Harlow, Essex, in 1951; it is now a Grade II listed building. In many cases, tower blocks were seen as a "quick-fix" to cure problems caused by the existence of crumbling and unsanitary 19th-century dwellings or to replace buildings destroyed by German aerial bombing. It was ...
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 terms of height depending on the jurisdiction.
The Sentinels are two 90 metre tall residential tower blocks on Holloway Head in Birmingham, England.The two towers, called Clydesdale Tower and Cleveland Tower, are both 31 storeys tall and were part of a major regeneration and council home building scheme following World War II which in the 1960s and 1970s saw the construction of hundreds of tower blocks.
The current tallest residential building, Central Park Tower, was topped out during September 2019 and completed in 2020. The percentage of residential buildings whose height exceeds 200 metres increased from 34 percent in 2009 to 45 percent in 2010, [ 8 ] making Burj Khalifa the world's first megatall building to include residential space.
It sits atop a tower of granite blocks, known as the Chair Ladder at Gwennap Head near St Levan in Cornwall. [1] Madgy Figgy is a character from local mythology. She was a witch who lived in St Levan and led a large group of witches and men who indulged in wrecking. [2]
Tower defense is seen as a subgenre of real-time strategy video games, due to its real-time origins, [2] [3] even though many modern tower defense games include aspects of turn-based strategy. Strategic choice and positioning of defensive elements is an essential strategy of the genre.
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A typical Gleadless Valley apartment block with mid-level bridge on Ironside Road. The Gleadless Valley project is an expansive complex of 36 six-storey tower blocks (of which 22 still exist) located throughout the wider Gleadless Valley Redevelopment Area, between the related Callow Mount and Herdings Twin Towers developments.