high-rise
Example Sentences
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Over time federal and state authorities bulldozed many poor neighborhoods and replaced them with supposedly more rational units, often high-rises.
There has been growing support for converting some empty high-rise towers into apartments and condos, but that is an expensive and time-consuming process.
From Los Angeles Times
The elections took place a little more than a week after one of the deadliest fires in Hong Kong’s history engulfed seven buildings in a high-rise housing complex, claiming at least 159 lives.
Gehry’s first skyscraper, 8 Spruce, reimagined the Manhattan high-rise as a kind of gleaming, pleated fabric, its shifted stainless steel panels rippling downward, catching daylight in a constantly shifting display.
From Los Angeles Times
Two years later, Silverstein persuaded a judge to invalidate the building permits for a 299-unit high-rise on Sunset Boulevard.
From Los Angeles Times
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