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The 4-storey building was formerly the primary school wing of the Catholic High School.

Aiolou Street

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, modern eight to ten storey buildings were built in the northern part and traffic lights were installed on Adrianou, Ermou, Evrypidou, Sofokleous, Stadiou and Panepistimiou/28 Oktovriou (Patission) intersections.

Barnes Wallis Building

The 15 storey high-rise part of the structure is called Wright Robinson Hall, and is a student hall of residence.

Buildering

In 2010, Goodwin, now a stage four cancer survivor, scaled San Francisco, California's sixty-storey Millennium Tower to call attention to the fire department's inability to conduct rescue operations in the upper floors of skyscrapers.

Butterley Hall

The two-storey, attic-gabled eight-bayed house was built in the late 18th century for the Home family but was sold in 1790 to Francis Beresford for occupation by Benjamin Outram founder of the Butterley Company.

Casa Cogollo

The constraints posed by a narrow space and the impossibility of opening windows at the centre of the piano nobile (because of an existing fireplace and its flue) induced Palladio to emphasise the façade’s central axis, by realising a structure with a ground floor arch flanked by engaged columns, and on the upper storey a tabernacle frame for a fresco by Giovanni Antonio Fasolo.

CITIC Tower

This 33-storey prestigious commercial tower is also the headquarters of another development partner, Kerry Group.

City Architect of Birmingham

Collectively known as the Duddeston Four, the 12-storey High, Queens, Home and South Towers, were all completed between 1954 and 1955 to a design by S. N. Cooke and Partners.

Clarendon Hotel

Originally built as a 4-storey house, it was almost immediately sold to Queen's Printers George-Édouard Desbarats and Stewart Derbishire.

Coalbrookdale

Charles Bage designed and built the world's first multi-storey cast-iron-framed mill.

Commercialbank Plaza

Commercialbank Plaza is a 20-storey office building on the North Shore of Doha, Qatar, built as a new head office by the Commercial Bank of Qatar.

Convent Crash

The three storey, seventy room building was run by the Grey Nuns.

Doulting

It has a two-storey porch which incorporates a carving of the Green Man into its vaulting.

Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond

He owns Ballyedmond Castle in Rostrevor, Corby Castle in Cumbria, and No. 9, Belgrave Square, London (a 6-storey townhouse purchased in 2006 for about £12m, restored during the following three years).

Empress Mill, Ince

Empress Mill, Ince was a single storey shed mill alongside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, spinning cotton in Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Entex Building

Total Plaza, a 35-storey building in Downtown Houston, Texas, occupied by Total Petrochemicals USA

Etisalat Tower

Etisalat Tower 1, a 17-storey building in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ezhilagam

Ezhilagam is a five-storey building located on Kamarajar Salai, opposite University of Madras, in Chepauk, Chennai.

Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Flinders Lane has many notable multi-storey warehouses, some included on the Victorian Heritage Register; including Leicester House (1888), Murray House, Chapter House (1891) by William Butterfield, Ross House (1898) by Sulman & Power, Milton House (1901) by Sydney Smith & Ogg, Tomasetti Warehouse, Manchester House and the Majorca Building (1928) by Harry Norris.

Foundation for Art and Creative Technology

The zinc tile-clad façade defines the building; interspersed with seven programmable LED-illuminated columns, running the building’s full six-storey height, it is a huge wide screen bent around two elevations.

Freemasons Tavern, Hove

The entrance was framed by a two-storey mosaic of blue and gold pieces adorned with Masonic symbols, the Star of David and bizarre griffin-like creatures.

Harold Desbrowe-Annear

Tintern is a single storey mansion erected in 1855 for William Westgarth.

Hutchesontown C

Spence and Robertson, partly inspired by Le Corbusier’s giant maisonette blocks in Marseille, designed two "colossal, rugged 20-storey slabs" featuring inset communal balconies.

Inverugie Castle

Charles McKean described the castle as "a splendid double-courtyard Renaissance chateau" and also said "It consisted of a four-storey block with circular angle towers and a stair turret".

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Lafayette County, Missouri

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

Lim Chong Eu

The iconic projects that emerged during Lim’s rule included the 66-storey KOMTAR administrative tower and commercial complex, and the 13.5 km Penang Bridge.

Lime Street, London

A 35-storey building has been proposed at 52-54 Lime Street, and upon approval and completion by 2017 will become the European headquarters of global insurer W. R. Berkley.

Lisbon Harbor Control Tower

The nine storey tower was designed by Gonçalo Sousa Byrne and is owned by the Governo da Republica Portuguesa.

Mirax Plaza

Mirax-Plaza Ukraine, a 46-storey building under construction in Kiev, Ukraine

Moose Jaw Canadian National Railway Station

The station, consisting of a two-storey central block with single-storey wings to the north and south, is constructed primarily of Claybank brick and Tyndall stone.

Nanyang Girls' High School

The campus has an auditorium, two lecture theatres, four computer laboratories (PC), an iMac laboratory and a three-storey library (with iMacs at the third level).

New Hall Place

New Hall Place (also known as The Capital and the Royal & SunAlliance Building) is a 13-storey brutalist style office complex in the commercial district of Liverpool, England.

Newington Causeway

Metro Central Heights (originally known as Alexander Fleming House), an early 1960s series of multi-storey blocks designed by Ernő Goldfinger as office buildings, subsequently converted into flats, stands at the southern end of the road.

POSBank

In 1983, its headquarters were shifted to the new 8-storey complex, the POSBank Centre at Bras Basah Road.

Pratt's

It was established in 1857, with premises in a multi-storey town house in Park Place, off St James' Street.

Queensway, Hong Kong

On the "waterfront" (northern) side of the road, also from west to east: Chater Garden, site of Hong Kong's former main cricket ground; the Lippo Centre; Queensway Plaza – a one-storey shopping mall next to the United Centre office block, also linked to Pacific Place opposite by means of a fully enclosed skywalk; the small Harcourt Garden; and, at the Wan Chai end, the Hong Kong Police Headquarters.

Rona, Bellevue Hill

Like Greycliffe, Rona is a two-storey house in the Victorian Rustic Gothic Revival style and built in Sydney sandstone.

Samuel Polyakov

Samuel Polyakov's Saint Peterburg home was the former Countess Laval palace at 4, English Embankment, a four-storey neoclassical landmark designed by Thomas de Thomon; in 1820s-1830s the building housed literary salons attended by Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Pushkin and Adam Mickiewicz.

Simei Estate

Simei has a 6-storey shopping mall that is undergoing renovation (called East Point Mall), where only NTUC FairPrice and NTUC Healthcare (Unity) still survives at a moment.

Simon Storey

Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.

Standard Motor Company

He was a civil engineer by profession but realised the enormous potential of the horseless carriage, and with a gift of £3,000 from Sir John Wolfe-Barry he became a motor manufacturer, establishing a small factory in a two-storey building in Much Park Street, Coventry.

Sutton Court

The north front comprises a central three-storey fourteenth century pele tower with a taller circular stair turret and two-storey ranges linking it to the 1558 'Bess of Hardwick Building' to the left and a four bay 1858–1860 servants' wing of three storeys to the right.

Ti-Ratana Welfare Society

In 1996, a three-storey building was acquired through the generosity of a donor and the Ti-Ratana Children's Home was declared open by the National Unity and Social Welfare Minister YB Datuk Paduka Hajjah Zaleha bte Ismail on 21 June 1997.

Veszprém stabbing

Cozma and other members of the KC Veszprém handball team (including Croat goalkeeper Ivan Pešić and Serb playmaker Žarko Šešum) arrived at the two-storey bar at around 12:30 a.m. to celebrate the birth of teammate Gergő Iváncsik's son and the birthday of teammate Nikola Eklemović.

Vikram Vihar

The colony is adjoined with other residential and commercial spaces including National Park, Guru Nanak Market, Old Double Storey, Dayanand Colony and Amar Colony.

Walter Marks

As a result of an inheritance in 1912, he was able to partly finance the building of his chambers, the twelve-storey Culwulla Chambers in Castlereagh Street, Sydney, the tallest building in central Sydney until after World War II.

Warsaw–Vienna railway

The building, facing Aleje Jerozolimskie, was 166 metres long and 18 metres wide, with the three storey central part, flanked by two 25 metre towers.

Women's College Hospital

The 1935 wing was as 10 storey Art Deco building that is being torn down despite historical designation for WCH.

York city walls

The name of this four-storey-high gatehouse is from the Old Norse 'mykla gata' or 'great street', and leads onto Micklegate ('gate' is Norwegian for 'street' remaining from Viking influence in York).


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