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unusual facts about tower block



Bluevale and Whitevale Towers

The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers is the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland.

RMS Columba

In the early 1970s, her name was honoured in the building of the Anderston Centre regeneration complex - along with that of fellow Clyde steamers the SS Dalraida and SS Davaar - the names of these three vessels were applied to the centre's three residential tower blocks in reference to the Anderston docks which they regularly visited.


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Benjamin Mountfort

Construction on the buildings for the Canterbury College, which later became the University of Canterbury, began with the construction of the clock tower block.

BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering

The Dalmarnock tests were a series of fire experiments conducted in July 2006 in a real 1960s concrete tower block in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, UK.

Elphinstone Tower

Elphinstone Place, a proposed tower block in Glasgow, cancelled in July 2008

Hull Royal Infirmary

A four-floor building directly connected to the back of this tower block houses the Accident and Emergency department and Acute Admissions Unit, the high dependency unit, and radiology, as well as the operating theatres and most of the hospital's outpatient facilities.

Mindless Ones

Plokta, a Duke of Hell, decided to conquer the world exponentially from a tower block in Birmingham.

Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

Queen Mary Hospital's main ward tower, Block K, is the tallest hospital building in Asia at 137 metres (28 storeys), and is the third tallest in the world, behind London's Guy's Hospital and Houston's O'Quinn Medical Tower at St. Luke's Hospital.

Salix Homes

In 2013, Salix was criticised for failing to take action to prevent the risk of fire in Whitebeam Court, a tower block in Pendleton.

T. Dan Smith

By 1990 he was on the executive of the Newcastle Tenants Association, and living on the 14th floor of Mill House, a tower block in the Spital Tongues area of the City.