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4 unusual facts about high rise


Brain Donor

Wearing full make-up in the kabuki style of early KISS, the band's curious aims are said to be a desire to combine Van Halen-esque heavy metal with garage rock in the style of Blue Cheer, and Japanese bands High Rise and Mainliner.

High Rise

However, financing fell through and Roeg and Thomas did Bad Timing instead, and Thomas later went on to adapt Ballard's Crash for the screen with director David Cronenberg.

Hawkwind used the book as the basis for a song of the same name on their 1979 album PXR5.

Ikuro Takahashi

Some of the groups he has played with include High Rise, Kousokuya, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Fushitsusha, Ché-SHIZU, Nagisa ni te, LSD March, Gu-N, and Akebonoizu.


The Sentinels

The flats thus initially attracted a much wider range of tenants than would usually be found in a high rise council block, including the actress Noele Gordon (who appreciated their closeness to the ATV television studios) and many gay men who found it convenient for the nearby gay bars.


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2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake

Dubai's residents were evacuated from high-rise buildings and many were frightened, calling in to report the earthquake to officials.

900 Biscayne Bay

900 Biscayne Bay is located across the street from Ten Museum Park, another recently completed Miami residential high-rise, near Bicentennial Park and American Airlines Arena in northern Biscayne Boulevard.

Anderston Centre

The new Anderston would have its population and slums cleared, and then trisected by these roads into three zones, a Residential Zone on the western side of the motorway, consisting of high-rise deck access public housing blocks, an Industrial Zone on the westernmost extreme bordering with Stobcross and Finnieston, and a Commercial Zone on the eastern side bordering the city centre with Blythswood Hill.

Aniello Migliore

The government charged that Migliore and other mobsters had rigged the bidding process for the supplying of concrete to high rise building projects in Manhattan such as the Trump Plaza and residences for Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Ardea

The Ardea, a condominium high-rise building in Portland, Oregon, USA

Arnie Morton

In 1978, Morton's of Chicago opened in the basement of a Near North Side high-rise in Chicago adjacent to the existing Arnie's restaurant.

Barnes Wallis Building

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

Bertelsmann Building

High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper, HarperCollins Publishers.

Book Tower

In November 2009, Key Investment Group of Clinton Township, Michigan announced intentions to buy and renovate the building as a mixed use development with high rise residential units, office space, and retail.

Broderick Smith

"Last Train from Mobiltown" / "Faded Roses" / "Tightrope" / "High Rise" / "Back Off, Baby Brother" / "I Was Here" / "Fortune Favours the Bold" / "My Father's Hands" / "The Devil Drives (Ray's Song)" / "Ruby in the Snow"

Brøndby Strand

It contains about a dozen high-rise residential estates of a big multicultural mix, and is home to a number of successful hip hop and urban rap artists of national and international stature, like Outlandish, Burhan G and Majid and others.

Canyon Ranch Miami Beach

Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, also known as the Carillion Residences, is a complex of three high rise luxury condominiums in North Beach, Miami Beach, Florida.

Catalinas Norte

The Postmodern high rise, designed by César Pelli, was completed in 2001 and at 137 meters (450 ft), would become the tallest in the district.

Center Park

Center Park, located at 2121 26th Avenue South, is a subsidized high-rise building complex located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, designed to provide living accommodation to physically or mentally challenged individuals and their caretakers.

Chewing gum ban in Singapore

Chewing gum was causing serious maintenance problems in high-rise public housing flats, with vandals disposing of spent gum in mailboxes, inside keyholes and even on elevator buttons.

Dwight James Baum

West Side YMCA, on 63rd Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue, New York City, 1930 (Baum's only high-rise)

Geography of Washington, D.C.

However the District is ringed by high-rise buildings in many nearby suburbs like Arlington, Silver Spring, and Bethesda.

Gozar Planners Architect

Their expertise is engineering architecture which currently includes 9 high-rise buildings including the first class residential condominium project of The Metrobank Group at the reclamation area along Roxas Blvd., Manila, the Bay Gardens.

Harold Shipp

In 1967, the Shipps’ formed a joint venture with Mutual Life of Canada to produce four high-rise apartment buildings, the latter one winning the Canadian housing design award in 1974.

Heard Building

The Heard Building (alternatively the Greater Arizona Savings Building) is a 7-story high-rise building in Phoenix, Arizona, it housed the offices of The Arizona Republic (formerly the Arizona Republican) and the Phoenix Gazette from 1920 to 1948.

Housing Commission of Victoria

The Commission presided over the construction of the Melbourne Olympic Village in 1956, and made its mark on the Melbourne skyline during the 1960s in the form of high-rise blocks of flats on various sites around inner Melbourne, the largest of which being Lygon Street in Carlton and Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy.

Irwin Molasky

Molasky built Las Vegas' first enclosed mall, the Boulevard Mall; first major hospital, Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center; first high-rise condominium, Regency Towers; the area's first master-planned community, Paradise Palms; and the first high-rise office building in Las Vegas, the 17-story Bank of America Plaza; and the state's first hospice, The Nathan Adelson Hospice.

Jesús María District, Lima

Many casonas (older large, luxury homes) are being replaced with high-rise apartments and condominiums, specially around San Felipe, and the area of El Campo de Marte.

JGT

Jordan Gate Towers, a two-building mixed use high rise project in Amman, Jordan

John Hancock Center

On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.

Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood

She campaigned for facilities for children growing up in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote a series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds, and at least one book on adventure playgrounds, spaces for free creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide.

Metal Building Manufacturers Association

The then-current American National Standards Institute, or ANSI, standard was based on high-rise buildings and was not appropriate for low-rise structures.

Muizenberg

Muizenberg houses one of the False Bay College campuses in the Cinnabar Building, a high-rise apartment tower.

Oregon Sustainability Center

The Oregon Sustainability Center was a proposed high-rise office building that would have been located near Portland State University in Downtown Portland, Oregon.

Pak Kret District

Mueang Thong Thani is a satellite city with high-rise condominiums developed by Bangkok Land in 1989, the company built Mueang Thong Thani Stadium in 1998 for the 13th Asian Games.

Parque Central Complex

On February 14, 1982, high rise firefighting and rescue advocate, Dan Goodwin, at the invitation of the Venezuelan television company, Venevisión, scaled the outside of the Parque Central Complex.

Paseo de la Castellana

As part of an ambitious project called Operación Chamartín, it is planned to extend it further to the north, where a big number of railway lines will be dug underground and the area will be transformed with high-rise buildings.

RBI Bhopal

Following the 9/11 attacks in New York in 2001, RBI Bhopal requested the Disaster Management Institute to conduct evacuation drills for high rise buildings.

Real estate in Bangladesh

Real estate in Bangladesh has developed dramatically in recent years due to the construction boom and increasing number of high-rise buildings in the major urban centers of the country, most notably Dhaka and Chittagong.

Rindge Towers

Originally constructed to spur development in the Alewife region of Cambridge, the towers—like many high-rise housing projects of the era—quickly became associated with crime and fell into disrepair.

Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center

The Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center was designed by architect Hisham N. Ashkouri in 2004 to be the first new high-rise hotel, conference center and movie theater complex in modern Baghdad, as a symbol of the reconstruction of Iraq.

South Quay Estate

Whilst reflecting their origin at the end of the modernist architectural period, the use of brick is in strong contrast to the concrete of high-rise, Brutalist architecture that typified social housing in post-war Britain, coupled with a wood-cladding effect popular in the late '60s and '70s.

Stacy X

Stacy is shown having a three-way sexual encounter with Welsh popstar Sugar Kane (the X-Man Chamber's onetime girlfriend) and new character Ultimate Nullifier in a high-rise hotel room after they all hook up at a popular nightclub.

State Office Building

State Tower Building, a 1928 high-rise building located in Syracuse, New York

Täby kyrkby

During the 1960s, as part of the Million Programme (the building of a million new and modern apartments), a series of high-rise apartments was planned for Täby kyrkby.

Taylor Morrison

The company also operates in Canada, where conventional single-family homes as well as high-rise buildings in Toronto's urban core are marketed under the Monarch brand.

The Paramount

The Paramount, a high-rise apartment building in San Francisco, California

The Sacramento Union

A 53-story high-rise called "The Towers on Capitol Mall" was planned for the Unions previous spot, but by 2007, the developer was struggling to finance the project and plans were scrapped.

Trams in Bern

This new route was introduced in view of the construction of a high-rise hospital building for the Inselspital.

Western City Gate

The building is designed to resemble a high-rise gate greeting people arriving in the city from the West (the road from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to the city centre leads this way).

Wilco Building

The Wilco Building is a high rise in downtown Midland, Texas.