tower block
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There was even a plan to build a £100m, 19-storey tower block - complete with botanical gardens and restaurant - in the centre of the city.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
The 33-year-old is currently living in a hotel after being evacuated from her flat, in east London, following a fatal fire in her tower block earlier this month.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Some residents in an east London tower block have said they did not hear any alarms during a fire in which a man died on the 17th floor.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Residents in a noted brutalist tower block in east London have been stranded in their homes after the 26-storey building's two lifts stopped working.
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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