A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise...

On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, England, at 00:54 BST and...

Tower Block is a 2012 British thriller film directed by James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson as their directorial debut, and written by James Moran. The film...

in the UK, Glasgow witnessed the construction of high-rise housing in tower blocks in the 1960s, intended to replace the decaying tenement buildings originally...

Tower blocks are high-rise buildings for residential use. These blocks began to be built in Great Britain after the Second World War. The first residential...

The Lakanal House fire occurred in a tower block on 3 July 2009 in Camberwell, London. Six people were killed, and at least 20 injured, when a high-rise...

Trellick Tower is a Grade II* listed tower block on the Cheltenham Estate in Kensal Town, London. Opened in 1972, it was commissioned by the Greater London...

and a young Libyan girl who fell together from the roof of a London tower block. When Constable Lizzie Adama—one of the only witnesses—disappears soon...

Tower Block Dreams was a British documentary series that broadcast on BBC Three during January 2004, investigating the underground music scene on council...

but is killed in turn by Hi-Hatz. The gang try to flee to Wyndham Tower, a tower block, but are attacked outside by the aliens; Biggz is forced to hide...

Grenfell Tower is a derelict 24-storey residential tower block in North Kensington in London, England. The tower was completed in 1974 as part of the...

Block Tower is a (12,215-foot (3,723 m)) mountain located in the southern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Block Tower is on the west side...

Look up Block, Blocks, block, blocked, or blocks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Block or blocked may refer to: Block programming, the result of a...

Dunmurry at around 17:30 on 15 November 2017. The 56-flat tower block and its sister block Rathmoyne House were built in 1964 by Lisburn City Council...

flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7 fifteen-storey...

Twin Tower (Chinese: 雙塔型) is a 1970s Hong Kong public housing residential block design. In plan, the blocks look like two hollow squares joined at one...

the sides. The block is 37 metres (121 ft) tall with 11 floors, and contains 88 flats. The building has a similar podium to Balfron Tower, albeit more extensive...

440yds    The Highland Towers collapse occurred on 11 December 1993 in Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. Tower Block 1 collapsed from a major...

16 February 2015. "Tower Block (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 16 February 2015. Mintzer, Jordan (15 February 2012). "Tower Block: Berlin Film Review"...

residential towers, at 42 storeys and 123 metres (404 ft) high. The top two or three floors of each block comprise three penthouse flats. The towers are: Cromwell...

Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, that partially collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it opened...

Fountainwell to the north – each with five 20-storey 'slab' tower blocks, plus seven 5-storey maisonette blocks and five rows of tenements in between. Most of these...

composed of one tower block (Grenfell Tower) of 23 stories and 900 other units. In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower caught fire, resulting...

the Craigneuk and Netherton areas of Wishaw. It consists of thirteen tower blocks (each over 52 metres (171 ft) high with at least 18 floors, constructed...

Barton House is a residential tower block in the Barton Hill area of Bristol, England. It is the city's oldest tower block and was officially opened on...

take turns removing one block at a time from a tower constructed of 54 blocks. Each block removed is then placed on top of the tower, creating a progressively...

greater than its width, thus having the appearance of an upstanding tower block, as opposed to a traditional "pizza box" computer case whose width is...

building, apartment complex, flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally, mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists...

Auckland Centre is a proposed tower block consisting of a Ritz-Carlton hotel skyscraper in Auckland, New Zealand. If the tower is built, it would become the...

1960s and to some degree the 1970s saw construction of many high-rise tower blocks. Flats and houses were also built in mixed estates. Council homes were...