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Examples of tower block


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The authors confront posited explanations of the towerblock mentalite under the headings of physical structure, design, 'authoritarian centralization' and ideological processes.
He spoke about the towerblock stags in his constituency.
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I was referring to towerblock stags, who leap from one bed to another within my constituency.
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It will be interesting to know what the final figure was for building the towerblock, and for furnishing it.
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This assistance is not confined to areas adjacent to towerblock flats.
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The eastern health board has not even attempted to work out how much it will cost to run the towerblock.
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A towerblock was virtually unrentable and demolition was considered.
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But each time a new towerblock or lecture theatre is erected it has its own heating supply.
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I can only agree that the towerblock flat development is prominent there.
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The towerblock of the proposed building is 450 feet high.
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Presumably one would just go on to the next towerblock if one needed more.
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It is all very well having places for children to play, but from a towerblock they cannot be overseen by their parents.
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In a few cases we have had to cut our losses, demolish the towerblock and start again.
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It means getting away from the towerblock mentality.
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That towerblock suffered for many years the grave defect that when a chain was pulled on one floor it flushed on the floor below.
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It is much easier to defend one's semi-detached or terraced house than one's flat in a towerblock.
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Because of the inadequacies of housing grants, we have not been able to repair that towerblock.
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She has not been out of her flat, which is on the 25th floor of a depressing towerblock, for two and a half months.
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However, it is very serious in a towerblock.
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There is a block of eight storeys—hardly a towerblock—which overlooks park land, and nobody is trying to get out of that.
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The people who lived in that towerblock are unable to go back.
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Eight armed officials, including six special services agents, forced their way into one of the flats in a towerblock.
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It is often the modest suburban householder faced with a towerblock of flats in the next garden.
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That is much better than a lonely council flat in a towerblock.
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They feel that, if they are in a towerblock, they cannot have the same feel for rescue services.
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One couple in my constituency bought their towerblock flat for cash in 1981 and have since made it into a model home.
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The panacea of the day was the towerblock.
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In my constituency, a towerblock, which was very unpopular with families with young children, was later used for warden accommodation.
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She lives opposite a towerblock where vacancies frequently arise, but she has always been denied a place in two-bedroom accommodation.
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We do not want to see them in some hideous towerblock.
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I entertain hopes that the sliced factory loaf will soon undergo the same public disapprobation and rejection as the towerblock.
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We had extensive debates on the difficulty of living in flats, whether deck access or towerblock, not all of which are hard to let.
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That housing association and my local authority would have provided 30 places in what is now an empty towerblock.
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I do not have a towerblock as such in my constituency.
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As well as being an undesirable living unit, a towerblock may prove structurally unsound.
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Isolation is also a problem—the isolation of the towerblock or of the rural community.
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The council is waiting for the right to borrow to do something about the other towerblock.
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At the foot of the towerblock there is a wonderful community garden.
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I refer, of course, to the towerblock at the city hospital.
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We have learnt a great deal and the type of towerblock of which he speaks would not be built now.
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In addition, concern has been expressed about the inhabitants of a towerblock.
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It is impossible for anyone to escape from towerblock or deck access flats—there is simply nowhere to go.
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The towerblock construction is wholly unsuitable, with patients being sent up and down in unreliable lifts.
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That had its effect on the misery of patients, just as the towerblock policy had its effect on the misery of flat dwellers.
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We know what happened to the towerblock solution.
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The design of towerblock estates is terribly important.
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Quite often they are rehoused in single-person accommodation which is perhaps less desirable because it is part of a towerblock.
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The towerblock, the vast school and the enormous shopping area depersonalise the human being and create many of the difficulties we meet today.
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She, her partner and the children live on the 15th floor of a towerblock on a total of £84 a fortnight.
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He mentioned that a shared dish on the top of a towerblock, linked to each flat, will be covered by a class licence.
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But the accommodation might be inappropriate—for example, a towerblock for a young family or a house for an elderly couple who cannot get upstairs.
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They have begun to acknowledge the immobility, the soullessness and the misery of the municipal towerblock and the monolithic council estate.
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I was talking about the towerblock, the concrete jungle type of estate.
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It is a grey towerblock in the middle of the inner city, once unpopular and hard to let, now a thriving and vibrant community.
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I have in my hand a letter from a constituent of mine, a lady aged 74, who lives in a council towerblock.
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They had to begin by selling two small estates and one towerblock to the private sector; they used the capital receipts for pump priming.
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It was dismantling a towerblock and wanted to deal with the windows from the block.
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I know of one towerblock where the heating is still on.
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There was one occasion when a man who was retiring was offered a flat in a towerblock.
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Many of our industrialised building consists of high rise and towerblock types.
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It finds that the solution is to put increasing numbers of people who need special care on the 17th floor of a towerblock.
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I went to the towerblock where they lived and rang the doorbell of their flat.
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By the 1970s, very little high-rise or towerblock building took place.
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That is particularly important for the single parent who perhaps has to live at the top of a towerblock in a deprived area.
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We are building up enormous problems on these large towerblock estates if we continue to cut back on management and maintenance.
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They would have helped to restore and bring that towerblock back into use for housing.
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There is no general threat to elderly people, even to those living in ground floor accommodation in a towerblock.
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They will not do that but will instead buy the deck access and towerblock flats.
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It was the era of planning and of the hideous towerblock.
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Is one referring to a picture window on the 17th floor of a towerblock?
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Many people can identify with a smallish unit in a rural setting, but few really like the large towerblock hospitals in city centres which sometimes have parking problems.
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I do not know whether it means that an authority would not consider approving an assignment of a family with young children to go to a towerblock.
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Some householders, particularly in my experience in the inner city, have to bring the rubbish from their flats down to the collecting point at the base of the towerblock.
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When there are a lot of elderly people in a towerblock and the council moves young families—most of whom own hi-fi equipment—into the building, everyone is affected.
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There is no way to ensure that consideration will be given perhaps to the difficulties of two or three private owners in a towerblock or other specific housing complex.
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So far, no estimate has been made of the consequences of bringing the towerblock into partial use later this year and into full use next year.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, decline set in as more and more was compressed into an ever smaller area—culminating, of course, in the ultimate folly of the towerblock.
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At that time, ordinary people were trying to tell the planners and politicians that living in the sky in a towerblock was not always sensible or sustainable.
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If one is forced to live on the 15th floor of a towerblock of flats with a permanently vandalised lift, one suffers a poor quality of life.
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People in wheelchairs should not be put in flats on the fifth or 15th floor of a towerblock, making them prisoners in their own home.
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When one drives around those parts of cities which have recently been rebuilt one often sees some council estates—very often towerblock accommodation—or windswept and deserted shopping centres.
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Lived on top floor of towerblock.
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In each episode, the three of them would descend in the lift from their flat in the towerblock.
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In the 1970s, this area of the town has been redeveloped with towerblock accommodation as well as new housing.
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Facilities expanded and a towerblock was built next and studios expanded over time.
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A towerblock extension was constructed in 1969 at a cost of 650,000, equal to about 6.6 million as at 2008.
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The shopping centre itself was located underneath the towerblock.
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The introduction of brutalism led to urban clearances and extensive use of the towerblock.
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Six are points more of a traditional towerblock shape.
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The camera then zooms out, revealing that the video set is actually located on the roof of a towerblock.
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We then follow the man who is sitting next to him to the top of a towerblock.
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The main building was a six storey towerblock.
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In 2013 work was undertaken to replace many of the original aluminium-framed windows in the main towerblock.
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The designers settled on a towerblock so as to leave as much of the gardens and grounds intact as they could.
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There is no clear difference between a towerblock and a skyscraper, although a building with fifty or more stories is generally considered a skyscraper.
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It makes the most of the small footprint of this towerblock.
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It is a large white towerblock, built in 1977 and surrounded by several other smaller offices around the city.
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