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	Tower block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tower blocks were first built in the UK after the Second World War, in many cases as a "quick-fix" to cure problems caused by crumbling and unsanitary 19th Century dwellings or to replace buildings destroyed by aerial bombing.
		In the United States tower blocks are commonly referred to as midrise or highrise apartment buildings, depending on their height.
		Tower blocks were utilised by socialist governments to provide affordable housing for its citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tower_block (777 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society Guardian \| Can the much-maligned tower block be making a comeback?
		Tower blocks, the detested public housing blamed for aggravating the social problems they were built to combat, are set to make a popular comeback after 30 years' controversy.
		Economically, tower blocks in or near city centres can help improve urban life if some of the accommodation is reserved for employees who keep vital services running - transport, health and welfare.
		Even simpler is its suggestion for a national tower blocks day, to mark the joys of living aloft.
	society.guardian.co.uk /societyguardian/story/0,,443698,00.html (1374 words)

	Probe after man found dead at tower block - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is understood the body of a man was discovered on the 13th floor of the 14-storey tower block.
		Police were called to the Dalriada block at around 2.30am and forensic experts have already combed the tower block for clues.
		The main entrance to the block, one of three Anderston high rises, was closed to the public during investigations.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5033213.shtml (380 words)

	Decision anticipated in BIPCo cellular tower application
		The public hearing on the Block Island Power Company’s request to erect a 250-foot tower for use by six cellular companies and two radio stations concluded after four hours of testimony March 16; the hearing had been continued after a late start the night of January 22.
		The lot where the tower would be built is at the center of the facility and is separate from the lots housing the power plant and offices.
		He added that the tower and arrays mounted on the tower could be painted to match the surrounding backgrounds.
	www.blockislandtimes.com /News/2001/0324/News/01.html (1372 words)

	The Tower of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A block could be reoriented so that any two of its three dimensions determined the dimensions of the base and the other dimension was the height.
		The problem was that, in building a tower, one block could only be placed on top of another block as long as the two base dimensions of the upper block were both strictly smaller than the corresponding base dimensions of the lower block.
		Your job is to write a program that determines the height of the tallest tower the babylonians can build with a given set of blocks.
	acm.uva.es /p/v4/437.html (343 words)

	The Smoky Mountain News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A 250-foot tower is under construction, and it will be directly between Duckham’s Laurel Springs development and the mountain view.
		Then we could sit down and negotiate with the people building the tower and everything may be hunky dory,” said Large, who gets $125 per hour for handling the county’s legal work.
		He cited a legal precedent known as vested rights, which he said stipulates that the company’s rights to continue the project are not established until 75 percent of it is completed.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/6_01/6_27_01/jackson_cell_tower.shtml (765 words)

	Streets in the Sky, first report of the NSTBI
		In a tower block such facilities can be easier for people to access than in more disparate forms of housing.
		Tower blocks can give their communities a distinctiveness and a clear identity.
		Towers can be a resource for surrounding housing, since the large number of housing units can provide an economic base for better support schemes and help to attract resources and services into the area.
	www.towerblocks.org.uk /html_report/4.htm (1720 words)

	Tower block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some tower blocks in Strogino district of Moscow.
		They are often referred to by the American term 'Apartment Buildings', particularly by the developers, perhaps in an effort to distance these newer buildings from the older Tower Blocks from the 1950s and '60s.
		Large estates with prefabricated apartment blocks are the outstanding characteristic of the cities of the former communist countries.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Tower_block (778 words)

	From Here To Modernity Buildings - Trellick Tower
		Trellick Tower in west London featured regularly in the tabloids, and their stories of what was to be found in its brutalist corridors were terrifying.
		So bad was the Tower's reputation that one urban myth told how the architect, wracked with guilt at creating this monstrosity, threw himself from the roof.
		Residents bristle at the Tower's reputation as a home for the new 'urban cool', but since the installation of a concierge and basic security apparatus, Trellick's debilitating social problems have been largely stamped out and the building has become something of a pop culture icon.
	www.open2.net /modernity/3_14.htm (643 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Plane hits tower block and leaves 116 dead
		All 94 passengers and crew in the Iranian Army C130 Hercules died, with horrific casualties reported from the tower block.
		But the aircraft flew straight into the tower block in the Towhid complex, a series of high-rise flats used mainly by Iranian air force personnel in the suburb of Azadi.
		The El Al plane destroyed a tower block on the approach to the airport and killed an estimated 39 people.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/07/wiran07.xml (519 words)

	Housing Prototypes: Lindenstrasse Apts. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The large perimeter block of new buildings north of Ritterstrasse was to be the model for the organization of the open space east of the Victoria Insurance Building.
		The tower to the north, on axis across the garden, appears to be a segment of the perimeter slabs, now rendered as a freestanding element that incorporates the multiple-layering qualities of the slab now compressed and reversed with brick detailed as recessed rather than applied panels.
		The autonomous nature of the individual commissions may also have had an impact on the transformation of the interior of the block from a private realm defined by buildings around the outside of the block to a public realm serving pedestrian movement through the inside of the block.
	housingprototypes.org /project?File_No=GER002 (1132 words)

	RTE News - Demolition of famous Dublin tower block
		McDermott Tower was the first of Ballymun's tower blocks to be demolished in this way.
		The tower, on Ballymun's main street, was 15 storeys high and once contained 90 flats.
		McDermott Tower was the only one suitable for a controlled explosion because of the open space around it.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/0313/ballymun.html (189 words)

	Tower block floors shut after brain tumor alert
		Tower block floors shut after brain tumor alert
		THE top floors of a Melbourne office building were closed down yesterday and 100 people evacuated after a seventh worker in as many years was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
		But Telstra insisted the mobile phone towers on the roof of the 17-storey RMIT University building were not linked to the cancer cluster.
	www.infowars.com /articles/science/tower_block_floors_shut_after_brain_tumor_alert.htm (463 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Laura examines her graph, she sees that for every one block she adds to the height of the tower, she adds one more block to the total number of blocks.
		She also points out to Miguel that, if she follows the pattern on the graph back to zero blocks in the tower, the building still has two blocks.
		Miguel scrolls to 100 in the X column and finds that it correlates to 102 in the Y1 column; this means that, with 100 blocks in the tower, the building would have a total of 102 blocks.
	www.ma.utexas.edu /~xhli/ThinkFive/Domainandrange2.htm (600 words)

	Knowsley Housing Trust - more problems! (Oct 14 2003)
		The previous housing officer was in the process of arranging for tenants to be found alternative accommodation in the area, and by all accounts tenants were pleased with his work and the fact he was a local lad.
		To be left without a housing officer in the final phase of decanting a tower block is absolute madness and shows the lack of any forward planning on the most simple of tasks.
		The tower blocks in question are a stones throw from his house.
	www.kirkbytimes.co.uk /news_items/2003_news/kht_oct_14_2003.html (1235 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Will Self heads for ivory tower block
		Novelist and critic Will Self is to combine conceptual art with writing by moving into a tower block and allowing the public in to watch him work.
		Tower blocks are slowly disappearing from the UK Once ensconced he will begin working on a short story, using a 60s-style typewriter as a nod to when the tower block was in its heyday.
		Self is undertaking the project, sponsored by the Liverpool Housing Action Trust, to highlight the shift in priorities for housing as the role of the tower block diminishes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2246568.stm (327 words)

	Streets in the Sky, first report of the NSTBI
		It should of course be stressed that this list is relevant to all social housing and not just to tower blocks, but some of these issues are particular problem areas in high-rise dwellings.
		For residents, or for a housing authority, with a tower block facing the most common problems, the questions are not how to achieve sustainability but “what can be done?” and “where do we start?”.
		Needless to say, the process of turning around a tower block is long, uncertain and different in different places.
	www.towerblocks.org.uk /html_report/5.htm (329 words)

	Victoria Mansion tower, rebuilt block by block, almost finished
		That's especially true when the blocks weigh hundreds of pounds each and are four stories off the ground.
		Most of the blocks were a few feet long, but some were much larger.
		Several windows in the tower now must be reinstalled, along with new sashes and other woodwork.
	travel.mainetoday.com /news/041129victoriamans.shtml (610 words)

	Irish Post: 15-storey Dublin tower block going, going, gone! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		McDonagh Tower was the ninth of the Ballymun flat blocks to be demolished and the second to be destroyed by controlled implosion.
		One former resident who gave birth to one of her sons on the 14th floor of the tower block 30 years ago said the building had many memories for her.
		All seven 15-storey tower blocks, 19 eight-storey blocks and 10 four-storey blocks of flats in Ballymun are being demolished to make way for community buildings, commercial properties and 5,000 new homes.
	www.irishpost.co.uk /news/story.asp?j=2379 (275 words)

	The Lord of the Rings
		The Two Towers will be the first release in the Tower Block (the two expansions will be Battle of Helm's Deep and Ents of Fangorn).
		The Fellowship Block comprises The Fellowship of the Ring™, Mines of Moria™, and Realms of the Elf-lords™.
		While Tower Block is the current block, the Tower Block sites will make up the adventure deck.
	www.decipher.com /lordoftherings/expansions/twotowers/towerblockenvironment.html (989 words)

	Jenga and Tower Block Games Jericho Executive Hardwood Tower
		Giant Hardwood Tower Block Game similar to Hi Tower made from 54 beautifully finished hardwood blocks produced from plantation hardwood.
		There are 2 options on setting up this game, all 18 rows have 3 blocks per row or the 1st 3 rows have 2 blocks per row.
		Giant Jericho made in the UK is a high quality tower block game with a sting in its tail.
	www.nickys-nursery.co.uk /seeds/pages/garden-games1.htm (619 words)

	Suspect Paki: How to Run a Banana Republic from a Tower Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He and a friend had built up an imaginary sub-culture around the tower block he lived in, Ashford Court in Cricklewood, a stone's throw (I'd get the youngster in the office to throw the stone, my shoulders are shot) from where I live today.
		He had invented a secret service, called Faqqzod, who arbitrarily removed citizens from their homes in the block, whisking them away somewhere to deep within the bowels of Ashfordia, itself a mini-state, never to be seen or heard from again.
		Thankfully, we don't have cryostats and thankfully, only one person has actually been shot for no good reason at all, but 25 years on, the idea of writing about a banana republic run from a tower block is perhaps no longer funny.
	www.suspectpaki.com /2005/10/how-to-run-banana-republic-from-tower.html (883 words)

	Tenants' fury as repairs turn tower block into 'death trap' - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TOWERING PROBLEM: residents at the Blythswood Court flats have complained after a refurbishment programme
		COUNCIL workers were today accused of turning a Glasgow tower block into a death trap.
		Tenants in a neighbouring block have already hadsimilar work done - and most are happy with the results.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5033484.shtml (486 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Blaze hits Qatar tower block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Police blocked roads around the site, causing traffic gridlock in much of the capital's downtown area.
		The building is believed to be part of the al-Nasr Tower complex close to the seafront Corniche area of the city.
		Doha is in the midst of a frenzied construction boom on the back of surging economic growth and preparations for the city to play host to the Asian Games in 2006.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/B8C5152D-B35A-44A8-B755-6DE98A6F53AE.htm (234 words)

	THE LIBRARY, PEACE TOWER & EAST BLOCK - photos of government buildings in Ottawa on Worldisround
		In July I described the Centre Block of Parliament, but for the sake of brevity did not include the Library and the Peace Tower.
		Now they, along with the historic but less well-known East Block, are the subject of this present article.
		Located behind the Centre Block, the 1876 gothic revival Library survived the fire of 1916.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/65048 (537 words)

	The New York Times > New York Region > From 20-Ton Granite Block, Freedom Tower Will Rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the tower rises atop this five-foot-high block at its southeast corner, the stone will disappear from view, finally to be obscured entirely by the underground structure filling the 70-foot-deep foundation.
		The block will sit atop a 14-by-16-foot foundation of concrete and steel bars at the base of Freedom Tower, which will be the tallest and most symbol-laden of the six office buildings planned on and around the trade center site.
		Innovative donated the granite block, worth about $14,000, which weighed 24 tons when it was quarried and measured 67 by 119 by 47 inches.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/06/20/nyregion/20stone.html?ex=1403064000&en=444e8ac997e1e6ce&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (769 words)

	Global : Ideas : Bank - Greening tower blocks for sustainable, brighter living
		Through offering tenants of a tower block in Coventry two free window boxes, filled with plants and compost, the project has transformed an imposing grey block of flats into a brighter, more colourful place to live.
		The ‘flower block’ project came about through the initiative of a local journalist, Barbara Goulden, who spotted a balcony of colour and greenness in the tower block.
		In collaboration with the environmental charity Groundwork (as part of its sustainable tower blocks initiative) and the local housing association, each tenant was offered the window boxes.
	www.globalideasbank.org /site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=4655 (510 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The building attracted heated controversy from the start, as its sharp angles were said to cast negative feng shui energy into the heart of Hong Kong.
		The two white aerials on top on the building were deemed inauspicious as two sticks of incense are burned for the dead.
		Predating the Bank of China Tower, there is the HSBC Headquarters Building, finished in 1985.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Hong_Kong (6625 words)

	SkyscraperCity - Fort Worth: Block TU tower (~900 FT. / 60 ST.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A name for the project has yet to be chosen, but it is being referred to as the Block TU project in city filings.
		The site is also a few blocks from the world-renowned Bass Performance Hall and within a couple of blocks of the heart of city’s office and commercial buildings, where about 40,000 work.
		Congrats on a new tower, especially one of this size, but lets hope that the design is altered.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=294322 (1733 words)

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