high-rise

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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

Over time federal and state authorities bulldozed many poor neighborhoods and replaced them with supposedly more rational units, often high-rises.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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