high-rise

Example Sentences

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AT&T wants a low-rise, horizontal campus rather than its current high-rise, vertical downtown headquarters, and the company couldn’t find a downtown land parcel large enough for it, said a person familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It's a race to the bottom getting these things sold," said Shaun Hildebrand, president of Urbanation, an organisation that has been tracking the high-rise market in Toronto for decades.

From BBC

Zoning clearances are still pending for the new location in Lumina Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard, a high-rise apartment building set to be upgraded by Morguard Corp.

From Los Angeles Times

In the country's densely packed cities, courts are wedged between tight alleyways and nestled beneath high-rises, disturbing thousands of people at once.

From Barron's

In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.

From The Wall Street Journal