| 单词 | storey |
| 例句 | It was easily two storeys up from the unmown lawn and had a gabled roof with real shingles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Whitewashed stucco walls lined with balconies rose three storeys high. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It came out of the third storey; for it passed overhead. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Sam stared up at the inn with its three storeys and many windows, and felt his heart sink. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It rose three storeys with a front entranceway that stretched out the front as a long corridor. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He ran back to the lower storey and tried the door. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It skittered across the thatch and plummeted to the yard three storeys below. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We waited hand in hand on the twenty-fourth storey, by the open door, the door that led into darkness. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Now it was nothing more than one storey, maybe two, of jagged edges, melted poles, and broken cement. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Some were a full four storeys high; in one block, the fronts of the buildings were decorated with beaten gold. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Salim said how huge it was and I said it had twenty-four storeys and Kat said it would be flattened any day now by our dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Except that here the cars were driving above and under each other as if they were on interchanges that were stacked ten storeys high. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We went down the street and turned into a bit of lawn in which, set back from the street, stood a one storey building of brick trimmed with white. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Quickly Sam passed the door and hurried on to the second storey, dreading at any moment to be attacked and to feel throttling fingers seize his throat from behind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It had only one storey, but it had the same narrow windows, and it was built of ugly pale bricks, badly laid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Just beyond the mosque was a series of attached single storey dwellings with small shaded porches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Its 11 storeys of bookstacks were connected to the historic heart of the library by an eccentric underground books railway, so unreliable that the most precious volumes were carried across the traffic-choked street by hand. Bodleian Library sets up in Swindon 2010-10-07T09:38:00Z By the light of an iPhone screen I take a few tentative steps into its shadowy womblike interior, vaguely able to make out the upper storey and central console in the gloom. Peter Capaldi: 'I know how to work the Tardis. I've known for a long time' 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The media is fond of stories about the "iceberg homes" of tycoons and oligarchs: already enormous houses under which three– and four–storey basements have been dug to house swimming pools and car collections. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z When, in 2000, he revealed the tower that would become the Shard, he was better known for developing business units in Warrington and Portsmouth and he had limited experience of buildings over three storeys. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z Here squats an enigma of a building, four-square and raised up on a grass ramp to give its only storey force and presence. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z A story is being told on several storeys in a tall, skinny house in King's Cross. Smother 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z Dave Murphy was 11 in 1978, the year his parents signed their first lease at the Golden Lion, and moved the family in to rooms on the building’s upper storeys. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z If you can’t imagine this – I don’t want to imagine it – that’s the equivalent of a lift descending two storeys every second. Chesley Sullenberger: an old-fashioned kind of hero 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z It also claims to feature a "light scoop" that transfers sunlight from the upper storeys down to lower levels. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z "When you walk around the five storeys, you should get a shock of amazement in every room. "Picasso is as alive today as he ever was. Picasso Museum sees grand reopening 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Parents dangle improbably, stretching out to save their offspring, while a skateboarder seems to be grinding along an architrave – two storeys up. Dalston House: the building that lets you defy gravity 2013-06-26T06:00:04Z Apart from the refurbished estate, there is nothing above four storeys. Stirling prize shortlist 2013 – review 2013-07-20T23:05:58Z The golden box at the higher levels blocks light from the archive storeys and their precious collections, including manuscripts from the 12th century on, and an internationally renowned photography collection. £188m Birmingham library project ready for finishing touch – 2.3m books 2013-04-29T19:15:16Z Of the 30 or so excavations London Basement are undertaking this year, none goes down farther than a single storey, and most are dug to provide functional living space. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Beside it stands the facade of 10 Downing Street, but a truncated version; there are no upper storeys. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z It stretches out like the deck of an ocean liner, with rocky mountain peaks to one side, the open sea to the other, a landscape of collective leisure suspended 18 storeys up in the air. Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse rooftop gym transformed into art space 2013-04-08T15:42:03Z At 22 metres, or eight storeys high, the statue dwarfs its surroundings. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z But get a little closer and you find that the podium, on which the tower would normally sit, has been hoisted 10 storeys upwards, where it hangs improbably above a public plaza. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z There are more than 430 buildings of 20 storeys or more in the pipeline in London, according to a survey earlier this year by New London Architecture, an independent organization. London backs plans to build second-tallest tower in western Europe 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The levels of life are the three tiers of our existence, storeys between which we commute and stories that we tell as we do so. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-06T13:00:01Z Also, it was such a large inundation reaching the 10th or 15th storey of a building. How scientifically accurate is San Andreas? Rock solid or a bit faulty? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z There were no names whatever on the top three storeys of the hotel. The dying world of “Grand Budapest Hotel” 2014-03-07T23:59:00Z Michael Cera has the same problem tenfold, what with his image plastered on every street corner, up to 20 storeys high. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z It is made of mesh, a giant aviary, three storeys suspended between metal poles. Margie Orford: 'Working with these men helped me understand why South Africa is so violent' 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z The economics don't really favour the iceberg home, where the third storey down will probably cost more to dig than it could ever be worth. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In June 1969, a spark from a train set the Cuyahoga alight and the flames jumped as high as a five‑storey building. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z Shops even one storey above ground level are usually regarded as commercial suicide, says Wennett: "People thought we were insane." 1111 Lincoln Road 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z The Cavern was in the basement of a three or four storey warehouse. The birth of Beatlemania 2011-02-09T08:26:02Z Fifteen storeys high with curving walls, the new "Diva of Cape Town" is sheathed in a translucent fabric mesh, made from woven fibreglass coated with Teflon. Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z The flats were five storeys of white-tiled concrete with red numbers painted on their sides. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z The borough is in the process of introducing a new planning policy that would limit excavation to a single storey in most circumstances, and restrict the footprint to 50% of the existing garden. Deep concerns: the trouble with basement conversions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The floors had holes so big we could chat between storeys. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z His 2009 Shangri-la is an urban oasis, whose 61 storeys encompass hotel rooms, live-work units and private residences, and a master plan that includes a grocery store and a public art site. Top 10 hotels in Vancouver 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The Neptune had new flats on its upper storeys, the ground-floor pub behind chipboard. The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He has a presidential museum and library to match: it's 12 storeys tall and its most popular exhibit is an animatronic LBJ robot, salvaged from a Dallas department store. Top 10 roadside attractions in Texas and New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z “The swimming pool is Gucci,” jokes his younger brother Swae Lee, as the two lounge by the infinity pool and hot tub outside their three storey house in LA’s Studio City. Cash Flex Zone: Rae Sremmurd And The Future Of Hip-Hop 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Light bounced off wall panels made of Italian onyx that stretch several storeys high and the sound was excellent. Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters 2013-05-02T20:36:35Z This means that characters on different storeys are hilariously juxtaposed and that they mimetically ascend and descend imaginary stairs. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z His "director's cut" version of this 2010 work features an expanded band, arrayed on three storeys like a wall of sound. Hofesh Shechter 2011-07-14T16:16:28Z One Hyde Park, rising to 14 storeys on a narrow site, certainly ticks the density box. One Hyde Park ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:43Z But the judge said experts dismissed this and said her injuries were comparable to a "fall from a two or more storey building" and a "road traffic accident of more than 60mph". Ruby Thompson: Woman who murdered baby she wanted to adopt jailed 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z The apartment building in Zaporizhzhia suffered serious damage to one entrance from the third to the fifth storeys, he said. Ten civilians killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine, Kyiv reports progress in south 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z The completed accommodation would be 10 storeys high. Billy Connolly mural under threat by Glasgow student housing 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Forensic pathologist Dr Michael Biggs, who gave evidence at the trial, said he would normally expect to see the injuries Jacob suffered on car crash victims or those fallen from several storeys. Jacob Crouch suffered a 'living hell' at stepfather's hands, say police 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Mr Gove found that additional storeys of offices would be more apparent than the current site and have a "significantly detrimental impact on the setting of Selfridges" department store nearby. M&S Marble Arch store cannot be torn down, government rules 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The local authority granted permission for the single storey structure to be built on the tennis courts at the Grade II listed home, as first reported in The Sun. Captain Sir Tom Moore: Charity stop donations and payments 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z All the buildings in Arkadag are white and all apartment blocks are seven storeys high, a number considered lucky. Turkmenistan opens futuristic city dedicated to leader 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z "All signs indicate this was a substantial building," says MOLA, "perhaps two storeys high." Southwark: Rare Roman mausoleum unearthed in London 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Woking town centre has been transformed beyond recognition over past years, with new skyscrapers of over 30 storeys and the Victoria Square development, including shops and retail outlets. Woking Borough Council: Government steps in over £2bn debt 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z But if the house was three storeys tall, the proportion would need to drop to 10%. Concrete Made with Shredded Diapers Is Just as Strong and Saves Landfill Space 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Most of the blocks of flats will be four or five storeys, with some on the northern block reaching six storeys. Bristol Zoo: 196 homes to be built on former site in Clifton 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z At al-Baraa children's hospital two nurses were injured by stray bullets while working on an upper storey, said senior manager Elfaki. 'Past catastrophic': Sudan fighting shutters Khartoum's hospitals 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The fire broke out of the fourth floor of the five storey building, according to local media reports. Dubai fire: Sixteen killed in blaze at Al Ras apartment building 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The advert, which covers 17 storeys, shows the group's logo and slogans such as "Join the winning team!" and "Together we will win", along with a picture of a masked man holding a weapon. Giant advert for Russia's Wagner mercenary group appears near Moscow highway 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Spread over three storeys, it was once Scotland's first line of defence against the threat of nuclear war. Hidden history of Scotland's biggest nuclear bunker 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z "We have some overhangs here. In this type of building we have some weak or soft storeys. There are short columns too, they are actually all typical building problems." Turkey earthquake: Istanbul residents fear homes will collapse 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z "In some cases, flood waters were up to the second storey of homes where people were being rescued," a military spokesperson said. Cyclone Gabrielle: Hundreds rescued from rooftops as New Zealand grapples with damage 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Before Monday the street was full of shops and cafes, many with several storeys of apartments above them, but all that is left now is rubble. Turkey earthquake: One ruined neighbourhood at the centre of the devastation 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Shocking images show buildings that were four or five storeys high flattened, roads destroyed and mountains of rubble. Turkey earthquake: Roman-era castle destroyed by quake 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z To his childhood friends, it was a source of wonder with its marbled floors, ivory statues and tales of ghosts haunting the upper storeys. The young Indians saving crumbling ancestral homes 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Soft storeys are where the ground floor is taller than the floors above it. Turkey earthquake: Istanbul residents fear homes will collapse 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z Several climbed out windows and one woman panicked and fell several storeys, suffering serious injuries. Chinese investors weigh risks after Kabul hotel attack 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z On one side is the high, featureless wall of the Hamilton Hotel rising ten storeys. My country won't protect me - young South Koreans feel let down 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The fire, in a 23 storey tower block in west London, killed 72 people. Developers to fix unsafe cladding in tall buildings across Wales 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z At nearly 100 storeys tall, the Trump International Hotel and Tower in downtown Chicago is the city's second-tallest building, standing out even among the huge skyscrapers that line the Chicago River. Are Mar-a-Lago and other Trump-owned properties over-valued? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Crews in 15 engines have been sent to the building, which is believed to be about 18 storeys high. Woolwich fire: Crews battle blaze at top of London tower block 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Damage was greatest to buildings between 5 and 15 storeys tall, because they also resonated at around two seconds, which amplified the shaking. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The third storey area from where the car fell has been variously described as a showroom, a testing facility or a car park. Two killed as Nio electric car falls from third floor office in Shanghai 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The battle against demolition is already underway in the UK, with pioneering architects and engineers urging solutions such as adding extra storeys to existing buildings - such as the Standard Hotel near St Pancras station. Climate Change: MPs say building demolitions must be reduced 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Babeush, a former plant worker, became the main cook, stirring pots of soup on a wood-burning stove in the concrete storey above their bunker. "Moles in the dark": survival and escape from the Mariupol steelworks 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z She said the severity of the force needed to cause such injuries would be "comparable" to those caused in high-speed car crashes, falls from several storeys or a severe crushing of the head. Leiland-James Corkill case: Injuries not down to sofa fall, jury hears 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s about as big as an apartment building — seven storeys high! Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Most building in the area are two storeys tall and the landscape is very flat, but the business park could include buildings up to 15 storeys tall. Cardiff Parkway: New railway station plans approved 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z A brave father threw his three-year-old son from the second storey of a burning building. Toddler tossed to safety from burning building 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z I'm writing this in a bomb shelter several storeys below ground with a crowd of people, four dogs and a pet rabbit. Ukraine: The mother putting on a smile despite fears for her family 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr Cobb said a brick wall at the top of the block of flats, which he estimates at 18 storeys tall, had collapsed. Storm Eunice: Car wrecked as bricks blown off tower block 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z The windmill is run with income generated from entrance charges to visit and climb the five storeys to the top, as well as from tearooms, a bakery and campsite. 'Blood, sweat and tears' pledge to restore Norfolk mill 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The height of the office buildings was still undecided, according to council bosses, who said 15 storeys was the maximum, but not necessarily what would actually be built. Cardiff Parkway: New railway station plans approved 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The fire started in an apartment on the third storey of the New Jersey apartment complex before spreading through the building. Toddler tossed to safety from burning building 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z "The most obvious one is in Hong Kong which has a 20 storey warehouse because the land is limited for industrial usage," said Mr Chin. Why warehouses are Asia's new hot property 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Sunday's fire reportedly started on the second or third floor of the 19 storey building in the Bronx. New York apartment block fire kills 19 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z It said the fire affected 100% of a single storey building used as a commercial workshop and an adjacent building was also damaged. Fire breaks out at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z His daughter, Serena, eight months pregnant, scrambled to pack her children and pets into the car: "We left with the clothes on our backs. The flames were three storeys high and right beside us." Climate change: What's it like living in a place where it's 50C? 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Author Saumya Roy reports from the country's oldest and tallest mountain of rubbish - some 18 storeys high - in the western coastal city of Mumbai. The nightmare of India's tallest rubbish mountain 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z "Across Asia-Pacific, we will see three to five storeys, ramped up logistics facilities to improve efficiencies and they are also cost effective." Why warehouses are Asia's new hot property 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The building, in Westbridge Road, Battersea, south London, was evacuated after a flat on one of the upper storeys caught light. Battersea: One injured in London flats blaze 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Three storeys high, Tony noticed what a beautiful day it was. 'How falling from a roof inspired me to become a musician' 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Firefighters said everyone managed to escape the 18 storey building in the south of Milan, which was gutted by the blaze that broke out on Sunday afternoon. Milan mayor says cladding melted in tower block blaze, as in London's Grenfell 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The proposed L-shaped single storey building, close to the grade I listed 12th century St Lawrence's Church, had been designed to have a minimal impact on the historic buildings and landscape, the meeting heard. Chancellor Rishi Sunak has new pool, gym and tennis court approved 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z As a result, anything, including public services, could be spread across multiple storeys. Tokyo Paralympics: The lowdown on being disabled in Japan 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The part of the hotel that collapsed was three storeys tall. Death toll rises to 17 in partial collapse of China hotel 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z As the search for survivors continues, questions are being raised about what caused a 12 storey apartment complex to collapse in Surfside, near Miami in Florida. Miami building collapse: What could have caused it? 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z It is believed they are responding to some knocking and sounds still heard in the debris of the 12 storey apartment block. Survivor search under collapsed Miami building 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Paleontologists estimated the dinosaur reached a height of 5-6.5 metres at the hip and 25-30 metres in length, making it as long as a basketball court and as tall as a two storey building. New dinosaur species discovered in Australia, one of world's biggest 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z At 60 storeys, the Times Media Complex with offices, shopping malls and parking for hundreds of cars, was going to be the tallest building in the East Africa region. Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z These twin boosters stand more than 17 storeys tall and burn six tonnes of solid propellant each second. Nasa's giant SLS rocket: a guide 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Under these changes, empty high street shops could be converted into housing and up to two storeys added to blocks of flats without the need for planning permission. New planning rules will 'silence local voices' 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The building still lost its top two storeys, and the owner faced arrest when the provincial archaeology department stepped in to halt the demolition. Pakistan to save ruined homes of Bollywood greats 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z For nearly 25 years, BHS occupied a handsome three storey building on Chapel Street. One in four BHS stores remain vacant four years on 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z "It's enormous, incredibly tall - about four or five storeys high," he says. Festival staff 'devastated' by summer of cancellations 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The Block 1 SLS will tower 23 storeys above the launch pad - making it taller than the Statue of Liberty. Nasa's giant SLS rocket: a guide 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The five storey building near a slum district in Mahad, which housed roughly 200 residents, caved in on Monday evening. More than 60 survivors pulled from collapsed building in India 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in the UK the government proposes that the maximum height of buildings with wood in the walls to be no more than four storeys. Construction safety is 'broken' say fire chiefs 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The inspector also said that with buildings up to 44 storeys high, the development harmed the character of the area and views of Tower Bridge. Isle of Dogs housing development 'was unlawful' 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The government is planning to reduce the maximum height of wood-framed buildings from six storeys to four. Grenfell fears prevent timber building boom 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Szekely kept fit by running the stairs, five storeys up, five storeys down, 100 times a day. Holocaust survivor to Olympic gold: the remarkable life of Eva Szekely 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The Nicu is several storeys up and its huge windows overlook sweeping views of the capital. 'My newborn son died and gave another baby life' 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Over 330 metres long, eight storeys high and double hulled to prevent spillages, it was classed as a VLCC, or very large crude carrier. 'Mollah’s life was typical': the deadly ship graveyards of Bangladesh 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z One of the bodies is trapped over 11 storeys above street level. New Orleans Hard Rock hotel reveals dead worker's unrecovered body 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Each one, on average 10 storeys high, is a floating resort city, with casinos, shopping centres, restaurants, nightclubs, cinemas, gyms, theatres and ice-skating rinks. Deep trouble: can Venice hold back the tide? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The height of the new jail towers was later slashed from 45 storeys to a maximum of 29, but the damage had been done. New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The skyscraper jails in Manhattan and Brooklyn would not rise above 295 feet, or roughly 29 storeys. Rikers 2.0: inside the battle to build four new prisons in New York City 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr Hughes died from head injuries after falling four storeys. Student's holiday apartment fall death 'accidental' 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The few buildings that rise above a single storey include an evangelical church and a loan office. 'Women were being killed on the street': the township struggling with domestic abuse 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The first phase of the inquiry, which ended in December 2018, looked at what happened on the night that 72 people were killed at the 23 storey tower block in west London. Grenfell gives me sleepless nights, says minister 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z At a time when the incarcerated population is rapidly ageing – with prisons becoming some of the largest providers of elderly care – the logic of arranging a jail across multiple storeys is questionable. New York's high-rise jails: what could go wrong? 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z With trains already running for four storeys below ground, and traffic choking the chaotic and unusually small forecourt, there is precious little room to expand. 'A serious urban mistake': why Paris went sour on the new Gare du Nord 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z All four storeys of the building are reportedly alight, with 125 firefighters at the scene. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z "The whole of the four storey building is alight," the LFB said in a tweet. Major blaze at south-west London flats 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z He said he and his wife took shelter on the second storey of their son's house. Hurricane Dorian heads to US after lashing Bahamas 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z We are standing three storeys up on the green health-and-safety gangway, looking down the line. 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Tom Aduda, 48, is the proprietor of Dreams, a hotel and one of very few buildings in Kibera above a single storey. 'There’s a lot of weirdness in a slum': making a living in Kenya's anarchic mud city 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Cosmo Park is a village in the sky, perched 10 storeys up on top of a shopping centre and car park, a world away from the heaving megalopolis below. Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z At the extremities, the ziggurats descend from their maximum height of 12 storeys to four, reflecting the surrounding scale of suburban villas. 'It didn't matter if someone liked it or not': six leading architects revisit their first commission 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z I told them that there the houses had many storeys, that there were so many houses and so many streets, and so many big fine shops. Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The crucial clause states that, on tall buildings above five storeys, any "insulation product" or "filler material" should be of limited combustibility - in other words, not likely to spread fire. Cladding advice linked to Grenfell fire changed 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z In Newcastle, the projection on to Cruddas Park House, which is a 25 storey block for people over 50, says: "2 years after Grenfell and the fire doors in this building still don't work". Grenfell messages projected on tower blocks 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z In the middle of one of our arguments, I opened the front door of our apartment, stepped on to the landing outside - five storeys up - and flipped my leg over the handrail. 'I always feared I’d go mad, and when I had my son I did' 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z At 72 storeys, it was the tallest building outside the US when it opened in 1990. IM Pei: an audacious daredevil who built the impossible 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Most of the windows are bricked up, and liquid leaks from split pipes on to the sewage and refuse-strewn asphalt several storeys below. Goodbye to Gomorrah: the end of Italy's most notorious housing estate 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It was a quadrangle with a central courtyard, three storeys high, ground-floor flats with entrances from the yard, all others from balconies that ring the inside walls. Gulliver at home 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z From that high ground, over the course of five books and 2,000 pages, I’ve followed a downwards trajectory, exploring the storeys of matter that lie beneath the surface of both land and mind. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s a great big void in the upper storey of the cathedral and the question to my mind is, is there anything ingenious that could be done with it? 'Even more beautiful': should Notre Dame get a modern spire? 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The brick buildings rise up to five storeys high, and it has roomy nightclubs, hotels, corner stores and auto repair workshops. La Pampa: the illegal mining city Peru wants wiped out 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z By this time the fire had reached the top of the east side of the tower, 19 storeys above its starting point. Preventable deaths? The story of Grenfell Tower flat 113 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Among the hospital’s features is a “underground” parking lot that is actually many storeys above ground ground – a cost-saving measure. 'He's not a bad person, but …' Justin Trudeau voters lament scandal 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It will rise 88 metres tall, with 18 storeys, and will be used for offices, hotel rooms and apartments. Ply in the sky: the new materials to take us beyond concrete | Fiona Harvey 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z A 19-year-old woman has turned herself in to Canadian police to face charges of allegedly throwing two chairs from a 45th storey balcony along a busy downtown Toronto street. Video of woman in Canada throwing chairs from 45th floor sparks outrage 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It was New Year's Eve and families were fast asleep when an explosion tore through their apartment block, bringing down 10 storeys in a matter of seconds. 'My little boy was dangling over the edge' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The frenzy reached fever pitch last Friday when several reporters were physically cleared from the entire fifth storey of the DC circuit court before a closed-door hearing. Sealed v Sealed: ruling sheds light on mystery case thought to involve Mueller 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z In a city with not many tall buildings it could be as low as 10 storeys. What are the rules on building skyscrapers? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Cotton knows first-hand about the risks at Nazaré, where a deep offshore canyon funnels the ocean towards the headland and, during certain winter swells, creates waves up to seven storeys high. 'A liquid catapult': big-wave surfer returns to scene of nightmare wipeout 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z After that, the two reporters were put in a pick-up truck almost weekly to make the roughly half-kilometer journey to Yangon’s Northern District Court, a dilapidated two storey red-brick building. Special Report: How Myanmar punished two reporters for uncovering... 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z We climbed 55 storeys up to a roof near Grand Central Terminal that looks out over the whole of downtown New York and the Empire State Building. Colin Lane's best photograph: the cover of the Strokes' Is This It 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He fell from his ladder on his balcony plummeting three storeys on to his patio below, breaking his leg, arm, wrist, shoulder and every bone in his face. 'I broke every bone in my face - and survived' 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z In its latest survey, for the year 2017, the discussion group New London Architecture, found 510 buildings of 20 storeys or more were "in the pipeline" in London. What are the rules on building skyscrapers? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The houses look as if they were copied and pasted from Muscat – bright, white buildings two storeys high with garages and ornate gateways. 'Five years ago there was nothing': inside Duqm, the city rising from the sand 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The revised outline proposals for the Haven Hotel site are now six storeys high instead of 10 but Sandbanks resident Alison Thatcher is among the objectors who say the scheme is still too big. Sandbanks hotels plans 'ghastly' 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z But up close, each sensitive dish is almost as high as a three storey building, rotating on a fixed pedestal as it scans the sky. South Africa's MeerKAT to help unlock mysteries of universe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z There are six storeys of parking for the family’s car collection, while the tower’s higher levels feature opulent apartments and hanging gardens. The staggering rise of India’s super-rich 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z In a city where loftier constructions abound, it could be, say, 40 storeys. What are the rules on building skyscrapers? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z His solution: get rid of the alley by filling it with a tiny elongated house - two storeys tall, less than eight metres deep and just over two metres wide. Spite buildings: when human grudges get architectural – in pictures 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z "No building in Sandbanks is over five storeys and this is how it should remain," she wrote. Sandbanks hotels plans 'ghastly' 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z At 47 storeys, the Yanggakdo International Hotel is one of North Korea's tallest buildings. Inside the North Korean place that ‘doesn’t exist’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z But, in a town where most buildings are no more than four storeys high, its replacement looms over the town like a giant. Bruce Springsteen returns to Jersey roots, where the dive bars mix with chic boutiques 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The building is an old warehouse repurposed for accommodation and the animal climbed up two storeys to bask in the evening sunshine. Fox on a hot roof trends on Twitter 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Four storeys above the chaos of a blistering summer afternoon on Manhattan’s Eighth Avenue, Anna Deavere Smith sits in silence. Rattling the cage: 250 views of America's school-to-prison pipeline 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Despite the fall from what she thought was about three storeys high, Han sustained only a broken tooth, bruises and cuts. Korean hiker shares survival story after rescue from Australian bush 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Almost all the city’s land faces height limits of 40 feet, or about three storeys. Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Once they do they will be greeted by a cliff-face of books over five storeys high. Libraries that speak loudly 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The researchers also identified 785 large basements, of at least two storeys under the footprint of the house, or one storey extending well under the garden. What lies beneath: the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The ubiquitous housing form in working-class and lower middle-class Baltimore is the rowhouse: two or three storeys with a distinctive low front stoop, narrow and tightly packed. Gentrify or die? Inside a university's controversial plan for Baltimore 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Mr Bolton had also previously declared that if the 38-storey UN building "lost 10 storeys today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference". John Bolton: Bush-era war hawk makes comeback 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Ms Kim sees SB 827 as too generous to developers: “If I’m going to give you ten additional storeys, I’m going to want you to increase your middle-income housing programme,” she says. Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessness problems? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z At south-east Alaska’s last industrial-scale sawmill, wheel loaders stack debarked logs two storeys high on the frozen ground. Trees older than America: a primeval Alaskan forest is at risk in the Trump era 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Standard developments, of a single storey under the footprint of the house, made up four in five of the schemes. What lies beneath: the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that the blaze is several storeys up in the Metro Hotel building. 'Serious fire' at hotel in Dublin 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z He once said it wouldn’t make any difference if you lost the top 10 storeys of the UN’s headquarters. Trump meeting Kim Jong-un is a half-baked idea – and a dangerous one | Richard Wolffe 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z On Wednesday 14 October 1981, Lewis pulled on gloves and loaded his rifle inside a deserted toilet cubicle in New Zealand’s oldest city, Dunedin, aiming his scope at the Queen’s motorcade five storeys below. 'Damn … I missed': the incredible story of the day the Queen was nearly shot 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z At five storeys it is unusually tall for a tenement and has a rooftop drying green because there was not enough room for a large enough one behind it. Rooftop gigs to help save iconic tenement 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Another 112 basements were classified as mega, of at least three storeys in depth under the footprint of the house or two storeys in depth and extended under the garden. What lies beneath: the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z National mandatory licensing currently only applies if properties are three or more storeys. Rogue landlords targeted by government 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But because it’s about 20 storeys tall, you either have to stand really far away or tilt your lens upwards, which distorts the image. My best winter photograph 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z What happened next almost seems inevitable - the Chinese climber fell, plunging 62 storeys to his death. Who is to blame for a daredevil's death? 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z A revived city centre and business district comprising high-rises of at least nine storeys will replace the old neighbourhoods. 'Addis has run out of space': Ethiopia's radical redesign 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Corbett and her family lived on the 14th storey of a tower block, which used to sway in the wind to the point where water would slosh out of the toilet bowl. I want to change the world... Using handicrafts 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Most notably, the building’s architect didn’t properly design the elevator for 47 stories: instead, it used plans for a 20-storey building and simply extended the lift mechanism another 27 storeys. The $3bn subway station – and other urban white elephants 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Assessments for property taxes are based on poor proxies for value such as the number of storeys in a building and the materials from which it is built. Myanmar has one of the lowest tax takes in the world 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z It grants male villagers the right to build a house of up to three storeys on a plot of land in their ancestral village. In Hong Kong, a row over land rights reflects a bitter divide 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z A hand-painted signboard hangs from the second storey, covering the entire front of the building. The family who brought an Indian sweet to Pakistan - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z From that second storey window, Bridgeford watched as drugs moved into her neighbourhood in the 1980s, and the families moved out. Can this US city go 72 hours without a murder? - BBC News 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z North Lees Hall in the Peak District has the three floors she gives Thornfield, and came with a fittingly grim tale of a madwoman confined to the upper storey. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z At the same time the height would never exceed four storeys – “we want the whole place human-scale”. The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The fire began on Friday afternoon on one of the lower storeys and spread to higher floors, where a number of people were trapped for nearly two hours. El Salvador fire at finance ministry kills at least two - BBC News 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z One example is Sathorn Unique in Bangkok, an eerily abandoned, incomplete block of luxury flats over 40 storeys high. What Asia learned from its financial crisis 20 years ago 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The transaction included four storeys of retail space and two sub-basement floors. Trump's Russia lawyer faces conflict-of-interest questions over $296m Kushner deal 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Ministers say cladding on schools over four storeys high is being checked. Fresh fire safety checks on schools urged - BBC News 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z But soon after they moved in, the building grew to 18 storeys. How Alexandria's 'leaning tower' became an emblem of the city's corruption 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Behind an immaculately kept lawn and a neat gravel pathway, the unassuming two storey house almost seemed like any other along the lane in Belleville, Illinois. Family and neighbors describe Virginia shooter: reclusive with a violent past 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The contemporary block was finished in 2016 and holds 60 apartments over 15 storeys. London fire: A tale of two tower blocks - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z The block of flats, near Notting Hill, west London, is at least 24 storeys high and contains 120 apartments. What happened at Grenfell Tower? A visual guide 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Nearby, a group of North Korean workers were still pouring concrete on the 22nd storey of a residential tower at 10.30pm. 'Like prisoners of war': North Korean labour behind Russia 2018 World Cup 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z I had a large plot – 300 square metres, including two storeys and a roof terrace. They smashed my face and demolished my home – all for the Rio Olympics | Maria da Penha Macena 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z It was a curiously proportioned building, very wide but only one storey high. Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The town’s station, a single storey white bricked depot, sits at the centre of the Amtrak Empire Builder line, which runs over 2,000 miles and connects Chicago to the Pacific Northwest. Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Preliminary investigations suggest the beam hit a pillar, causing three storeys of the half-built structure to collapse. Mexico City car park collapse kills seven workers - BBC News 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The most recent was the live-streamed clip of an Ethiopian woman in Kuwait, falling several storeys from a balcony, her employer mocking her pleas for help. When an airstrike killed my friend’s brother I learned grief knows no borders | Nadifa Mohamed 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Leaf asks the group, pointing to huge fuzzy writing several storeys up the side of a brick building. New York graffiti tour turns the illicit underground into accessible art 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Langham Place’s retail portion alone measures 15 storeys, which is a skyscraper in its own right – a “vertical” mall. All under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In other words a 5-7ft wave is practically double the height of Callaghan and a 10-15ft wave, the kind competitors often face on Tour, may appear two or three storeys tall. Pipe dreams: life on the road in pursuit of surfing glory 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Only half of the people who fall three storeys survive. The window cleaner who fell from a skyscraper and lived - BBC News 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z After that, Grace left our flat just once - slipping on an icy windowsill and falling three storeys. Travelling the world with cats and a dog - BBC News 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Daddy flashed his badge and we sailed through to a campus of perfectly straight parallel streets lined from one end to the other by unremarkable two‑storey redbrick buildings. The hidden history of Nasa’s black female scientists 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z This “expresscalator” whisks people up four storeys in a matter of seconds. All under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z There are plans for almost a dozen new towers above 30 storeys, chief among them the Owen Street development. 'The building creaks and sways': life in a skyscraper 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He famously inflates the floor numbers of his buildings: the “90-storey” Trump World has 72 floors, while apartments in Trump Tower begin at “floor 30”, despite there being just 19 commercial storeys below them. Trumpitecture: what we can expect from the billionaire cowboy builder 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z The preview also features audio recordings of Ms Wright pleading to be allowed to leave the 14th storey apartment, which was a key piece of evidence. Gable Tostee 'Tinder death' interview angers Australian netizens - BBC News 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Snipers duelled from rooftops in residential areas, where most buildings are just two storeys high. Iraqi special forces work to clear Isis fighters from eastern edge of Mosul 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Hours later Ms Wright plunged to her death from his 14th storey balcony. Gable Tostee not guilty in Australia 'Tinder death' - BBC News 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z By the end of the date Wright was dead, having plunged 14 storeys from the balcony of Tostee’s apartment, and two years later he is on trial in Queensland’s supreme court charged with her murder. Fateful night: a young woman is dead, her Tinder date charged with murder 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z He ran over and saw Sam lying on the concrete floor, two storeys below - a fall of about 6m. The magpie that saved a family - BBC News 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z As the decades passed, families have replaced cardboard and sheet metal with sturdy cement bricks and added multiple storeys to their homes. Female rappers take a stand in Mexico's capital of violence against women 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The new landmark is intended to be a stunning spectacle of public art while also being entirely accessible to the public, including an elevator to the top, which is expected to be 15 storeys high. Controversial British architect behind planned $150m New York sculpture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z On a balcony about 20 storeys up, the turmoil is still unfolding beneath. Amid the horror of 9/11, taking this photograph changed my life 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z "They thought Milton Keynes was new and modern but of course none of the buildings were more than four storeys high so it looked a bit incongruous. It was clearly not New York." Superman IV film recreated in Milton Keynes 30 years on - BBC News 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Three storeys high with a garden, it was the perfect playground for a young child. I was a refugee boy from Baghdad – don't play immigration 'fear card' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Local television showed footage of a damaged building, with one hole in a concrete wall, and said shattered glass had fallen to the ground from several storeys up. Bomb blast in central Beirut aimed at bank: minister 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z It eventually topped out at the equivalent of 39 storeys. Story of cities #43: how Dubai's World Trade Centre sold the city to the world 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Surrounding the sanctuaries were mud-brick houses several storeys high, some with dovecotes on their roofs. Drowned worlds: Egypt's lost cities 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Their struggle began at the front door and travelled through three storeys of the sprawling Victorian house. A moment that changed me: the day my colleague was murdered | CJ Lyons 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z He says another reason why the load is often heavier than the original design is because extra storeys are added. Five reasons why buildings collapse - BBC News 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z At 64 storeys, it is one of the tallest buildings in Las Vegas and manages to distinguish itself in a city renowned for vulgarity. 'You don't talk to the boss': in Trump's Las Vegas hotel, workers are fighting for dignity 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Londoners may soon be allowed to add storeys to their home if an adjoining building is taller. The grip tightens 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The Plaza is an eight storey hotel not far from the centre of Athens. Migrant crisis: Stranded in Greece - BBC News 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Why are the commenters here filling in more information - simple, pertinent information - than the storey? Melissa Gilbert Never Saw Congress in Her Future 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Her husband had already left for work, and she was home with her two children in their second storey apartment in a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. Could 'actual innocence' save the broken US justice system? - BBC News 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The monstrous concrete cylinder, with a 21-metre radius and weighing the equivalent of 22 Airbus A380s, juts out of the ground more than four storeys high and descends a further 18 metres under the surface. Story of cities #22: how Hitler's plans for Germania would have torn Berlin apart 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Seven storeys high and about 100 metres long, HMS Audacious, the fourth in the Astute class of attack submarines, is expected to emerge from the shed for sea trials early next year. Take your partners 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z But Cincinnati’s version soared higher, with five storeys of books piled on top of one another, surrounding a skylit atrium and reading room. Sold for scrap: great city buildings that were stupidly demolished 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Videos posted by Ajman Police on Twitter show flames engulfing most of one side of the tower, reaching several storeys high. UAE fire: Huge blaze hits Ajman residential tower - BBC News 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z There was a partial collapse of a large building, approximately 300m long and ten storeys high. Didcot power station collapse: one dead and three missing 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z A joint statement by the emergency services said the building, which is 300m long and 10 storeys high, was due to be demolished in the coming weeks. Didcot Power Station collapse: One dead and three missing - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Another major preoccupation was the prospect of enduring five storeys of flatulence. Giant Shanghai slide sparks fear and satire on Chinese internet - BBC News 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Its lower storeys, filled with arcades of shops, pancaked on top of each other before the entire U-shaped complex toppled in on itself. Death toll at collapsed building in Taiwanese city reaches 114 as rescue efforts end 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The 17 storeys of the Wei Kuan apartment complex, home to at least 256 people, crumpled down on each other as the quake took hold. Taiwan earthquake: Rescuers in frantic search for missing - BBC News 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Their own place in Gary, Indiana, was one storey with two bedrooms, one for parents Joe and Katherine, the other for the nine kids. My surreal 1980 interview with Michael Jackson: ‘Direct your questions to Janet; she’ll put them to Michael’ 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which ran up at least 20 storeys of the building near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper. Dubai skyscraper ablaze near New Year's Eve fireworks 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Protesters also sought redress at the 31st storey representative office in Shanghai of the Yunnan government. The China metal exchange at center of investment scandal 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “Iceberg homes”, ordinary-looking properties with luxurious subterranean storeys, are surfacing more often in posh London neighbourhoods. Subterranean home-slip blues 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In a hushed, white-walled workshop on the lowest of seven storeys that loom over the so-called EUR business district south of Rome that was Mussolini's great project, Fendi's employees measure and trim pieces of fur. Fashion firm puts Rome's 'Square Colosseum' to work 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Each local authority keeps figures, but these are only estimates as not all HMOs have to be licensed - only larger properties over three storeys high with five or more unrelated tenants and shared facilities. The lowest rung of the housing ladder? - BBC News 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Days earlier, a portrait of an immigrant called Ibrahim pasted across 50 storeys of a building in Philadelphia. JR: ‘I realised I was giving people a voice’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z London’s traditionally low-rise skyline is being swiftly replaced by luxury residential skyscrapers, with 263 tall buildings of over 20 storeys proposed, approved or under construction in Greater London. London outstrips New York to top global prime property league 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z All around are converted shipping containers: functional metal boxes painted red and stacked two storeys high. Migrant crisis: Hamburg uses shipping containers as homes - BBC News 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z In Hsinchu city, a crane fell from 20 storeys on to cars below but no one was injured, local reports said. 'Super typhoon' Dujuan kills two and injures hundreds in Taiwan 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z These water tanks became necessary when buildings grew taller than six storeys – too high for the pipes channelling water down from the Adirondack reservoirs. New York's greatest design icons: from Macy's balloons to the Yankees logo 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Nothing here is higher than four storeys, so shadows do not impinge. Welcome to the naked city: sun, swingers and very little shoplifting 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It's also unclear how well green roofs many storeys up offer relief to people below. How cities can beat the heat 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z "We have been here for a long time because access to the building is restricted. "All four storeys were involved in the fire and there is a risk that walls might collapse. Derry Poundstretcher fire: Building where 15 worked destroyed - BBC News 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z “When I said seven years ago we could build three storeys with wood people thought I was crazy. Today we’re seeing timber tower proposals every month.” Tree houses: are wooden skyscrapers the future of tall buildings? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z They are often one storey higher than the Pit Building Lounges and afford panoramic views of the pits and circuit. F1 Races To Pole Position In Hospitality Value For Money Ranking 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He bunks with seven other Rohingyas, all refugees from Myanmar; they are among several hundred migrants living in containers stacked two storeys high along a single muddy track. The most persecuted people on Earth? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Most of the elevators automatically stopped at the nearest floor and opened their doors, but 14 were stranded between storeys. Japan may install toilets in elevators for earthquake emergencies 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Not even two storeys tall, the concourse has a low-hung roof, held up by stumpy, inelegant columns and dotted with air conditioning ducts, fluorescent lights and security cameras enclosed in smoke-glass half-domes. How Penn Station saved New York's architectural history - BBC News 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z “The columns in the Empire State Building are already close together. If we replace these with wood we absolutely could build to 110 storeys.” Tree houses: are wooden skyscrapers the future of tall buildings? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Abu Sayyaf and his family were staying in a compound that contained at least 50 buildings, each four storeys high, where 1,000 people including civilians lived. Islamic State learns lessons from U.S. raid: jihadist sources 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Twelve storeys high and made from 10,000 panes of glass, it made worshippers feel they were praying in the Orange county sun. Retail religion 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the blaze in a single storey house at 00:42. Woman dies in fire in Highlands 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z A painted line two storeys up marks the height of the wave. Trip Tips: Japan's coastal Miyako city puts tsunami behind it 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z All this noise reverberates because we are perched at the side of an imposing cavern, 30 storeys beneath the French-Swiss border. LHC restart: 'We want to break physics' 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z "Some of their living quarters and storage areas were four storeys below the surface. That's what made it tough." Surviving Iwo Jima 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Piled several storeys high, in the middle of Brighton, are shipping containers that have been converted into houses. Where do the Greens stand at the end of 2014? 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The couple's home is being rebuilt with a third storey in case it gets flooded again. The floods that ruined Christmas 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The 52-year-old died after falling four storeys on to railings outside his penthouse flat in London on 8 December. Scots tycoon death inquest opens 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Soon after dawn, groups of workers - electricians, scaffolders, welders - gather for exercises and team-building before entering lifts that carry them the equivalent of ten storeys up. The largest vessel the world has ever seen 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z It could bring storm surges up to one storey high, as well as heavy rain and the risk of landslides, officials have warned. Thousands flee Typhoon Hagupit 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z An Italian company is planning to build the country’s first high-rise cemetery — a 33 storey tower with space for 24,000 graves — in Verona, the city where Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare's City of Love Plans to Build High-Rise Cemetery 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z After two window cleaners endured a terrifying ordeal 68 storeys above the ground at the World Trade Center, many watching around the world wondered who would do such a dangerous job. Secrets of a skyscraper window cleaner 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Officials are investigating how a cradle holding two window washers collapsed 68 storeys above the ground at the World Trade Center site. Inquiry into WTC window rig collapse 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z The 38 storey building at 20 Fenchurch Street will include a mixture of commercial and retail premises, plus a 'sky garden' set over the top three floors of the building. London's skyline 'worth £7.2bn' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z On the fourth storey, a little girl in a red dress played perilously close to the edge. Life in Aleppo’s ruins: ‘We’ve had enough of dying, sitting at home, having no fun. We want to dance’ 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z In other words, this dude’s favourite time and place to target women is when they’re trapped in a sealed metal tube buried three storeys underneath Manhattan. Attention, men: don’t be a creepy dude who pesters women in coffee shops and on the subway 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The building is largely open plan with large windows and a seven storey glass facade. Riba Stirling Prize 2014: Manchester School of Art 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z At 72 storeys, The Shard, or London Bridge Tower as it is also known, is the UK's tallest building and the second highest in Europe. Riba Stirling Prize 2014: London Bridge Tower (The Shard) 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Dirt tracks separate many of the small, single storey houses. Clacton residents await by-election 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z From there, they will be able to launch themselves down a curving slide, plunging two storeys into the open-air infinity pool below. Strictly for the super-rich: the world’s most expensive penthouse 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z That’s many storeys of fuel to send into space an object about the size of a minibus. Jetpacks: here’s why you don’t have one 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z As his wife tried to call police, Dwyer grabbed her cellphone and threw it down from the home’s second storey. NFL star Jonathan Dwyer 'head-butted wife after she refused sex' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z However, rescue officials say the likeliest cause of the building's collapse was the construction of additional storeys without reinforcing the foundations. SA team helps Nigeria church rescue 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In Stratford City’s “International Quarter”, part of the promised spoils of the Olympic legacy, consented tower proposals have recently gained a substantial number of extra storeys. The truth about property developers: how they are exploiting planning authorities and ruining our cities 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z At least 40 people died after the two storey guesthouse for members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday. Preacher releases church collapse video 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z "It is just a miracle how we survived without anything. We had no food, no drinking water and no hope," said Mr Dar, who has now moved down to the second storey of his house. Surviving the Kashmir floods in Srinagar 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z At more than 75 storeys high and gold in colour - individual apartments will cost millions of dollars. India property market will 'pick up' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z In central Gaza City on Thursday, three explosions destroyed the home of the Ramlawi family at around 3pm, where 50 refugees were crammed into its three storeys. Gaza 'faces precipice' as death toll passes 1,400 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Vastly inflated density and a few extra storeys on a tower can be politically justified as being in the public interest, if it means a handful of trees will be planted on the street. The truth about property developers: how they are exploiting planning authorities and ruining our cities 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z With storey after storey of lounges, gardens and temples, it looms over Altamount Road, the Mumbai neighbourhood once home to the business elite and the civil servants whom Dhirubhai defied. Reimagining Ambani 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z According to survivors, one shell landed in the schoolyard followed by several more rounds that hit the upper storeys of the building. Palestinian protests to continue as Israel considers military options 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z According to survivors one shell landed in the schoolyard followed by several more rounds that hit the upper storeys of the building. West Bank erupts over Gaza bloodshed as UN deplores deadly school attack 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Neatly built detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, sit alongside two seven storey apartment blocks and a building that after the Games will become a care home. Sleepover in the Athletes' Village 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z It is not known which of the prison's buildings was scaled, but some structures on the site, in Princetown, exceed five storeys and have steeply sloping roofs. Rooftop prisoners offered sun cream 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The buildings are seven storeys of housing plus a ground floor for shops and small businesses that provide employment to some of the people living here. Jockin Arputham: from slum dweller to Nobel Peace Prize nominee 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Claims of an agreed sale proved to be more of a tall story than tall storeys. Threats to sue over tall storeys of £100m London tower 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z A spokeswoman for the unification ministry said it was presumed there were four households on each storey but she also said it was not known exactly how many were in the building at the time. North Korea says apartment building collapses, offers rare apology 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Human Rights Watch also reports children working near heavy machinery, using dangerous tools, and climbing into the rafters of barns several storeys high without protection. Report decries tobacco child labour 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The eight storey Rana Plaza clothing factory collapsed, more than a thousand people died and many more were injured. Protests year after factory collapse 2014-04-24T06:30:28Z Like the product he was making, the building itself - three storeys high with exterior walls of red firebrick - was also a new departure. Why the army took over Charles's chocolate factory 2014-04-20T23:40:07Z Inside a cavern in the mine, the detector is situated inside a stainless steel tank that is two storeys high. Critical phase in missing matter hunt 2014-04-08T07:09:55Z On the flat plains of Kansas, a stack of gleaming steel towers and pipes stretches 16 storeys into the sky. Cellulosic ethanol fights for life 2014-03-12T18:50:30.596Z It submitted a new planning application in January, reducing the number of storeys from 30 to 16. Objection to dock high-rise plans 2014-03-05T06:30:45Z The 15 storeys above the mall are packed with guest houses converted from the building's original residential apartments. Inside Hong Kong's favourite 'ghetto' 2013-12-23T00:41:50Z The plans will see one storey will be added to the top of Television Centre and two under it, with the facade of the building being retained and restored. BBC TV Centre homes plan approved 2013-12-20T12:08:51Z TV pictures showed the Maxima grocery store surrounded by fire trucks and ambulances with rescue workers using their hands and crow-bars to pull away rubble from inside the single storey, modern building. Four killed, dozens feared trapped in Latvia shop collapse 2013-11-21T21:26:25Z So they live at the four storey police station in Alexandria, where cold winter wind blows in from the sea and families of Palestinians sleep on blankets on cement floors. Surviving "death boat", Syria Palestinians locked up in Egypt 2013-11-19T14:15:03Z At five storeys high, and also boasting a cafe, table tennis room, and even the second-largest nightclub in the city, it has set the bar high. The start-up scene changing Norway 2013-11-14T00:03:35Z The fuel assemblies are held in a 10 x 12 meter concrete pool, the base of which is on the fourth storey of the complex. Fukushima: now for the tough part 2013-11-12T21:10:25Z Police arrived at a Brooklyn townhouse early on Monday to discover a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest on the first storey. Iranian band members shot dead in NY 2013-11-11T16:17:16Z "We plan to apply for around £2m from the HLF to build a second storey on our armoury and medal room, which would contain the Welch Regiment's medals." Rorke's Drift medals museum bid 2013-11-02T09:22:33Z The house in Mullaittivu district contained a bunker descending four storeys underground. S Lanka Prabhakaran bunker destroyed 2013-10-04T17:39:23Z His house is near the lagoon, single storey, with a half-covered entrance yard and a corrugated tin roof. Giving it all up to be a 'beachcomber' 2013-09-26T23:46:41Z The film showed a monumental facade with white marble columns two storeys high. UK court sees jailed Nigerian ex-governor's opulent palace 2013-09-18T14:53:43Z After the collision the bus veered into the front of the single storey detached cottage, which was being renovated. Bus hits cottage after car collision 2013-09-18T12:24:39Z My concern is that it will be four storeys high - I'll be able to wave to them. Community divided over super-prison 2013-09-04T09:09:03Z Imagine standing on the roof of a three storey building and lowering the lead of a mechanical pencil so that it hits the center of a coin sitting on the ground. The search for answers beneath the bottom of the sea 2013-08-19T13:45:00.857Z A young man cuts boys' hair while veiled women on the second storey sell carrots, lemons and watermelons. Tents, garages, shops: Syria refugees hide in Lebanon shadows 2013-08-02T21:40:31Z The wooden building will be seven storeys high with 181 apartments and a total living space of about 10,100 square meters. Building Green Increases Demand For Traditional Materials 2013-07-30T09:54:00Z No, not the trading floor on the 15th storey of some gleaming tower in Canary Wharf, but the shop floors of Sports Direct, the purveyors of cut-price trainers. Unthinkable? Bonuses for shop assistants, not bankers 2013-07-19T19:36:34Z It's apparently going to be four storeys high. Community divided over super-prison 2013-09-04T09:09:03Z Four or five months ago I saw someone fall four storeys from a ladder and land on top of scrap metal. After Rana Plaza, Bangladesh's Shipyard Workers in Danger of Being Forgotten 2013-07-10T07:05:26Z Some of the half-timbered houses are six storeys high, for example, and the windows on the church just don't look right, he says. Why China loves to build copycat towns 2013-07-01T00:09:48Z After they built this office block in 1973, the outcry was so loud, they banned new buildings over seven storeys high. Does Paris need new skyscrapers? 2013-06-18T01:39:24Z Opposite is a brand new medical centre, eight storeys high and built on the site of another Pashto cinema which was destroyed. Bombs, boredom threaten Pakistan's "Pashto" song-and-dance cinema 2013-06-02T01:38:19Z There is always 2 sides to every storey. Suarez's words make a decidedly hollow sound 2013-05-31T19:20:12Z Crews were called to the five storey Grade II listed Alexandra Hotel in the town centre at 20:11 BST on Sunday. Hotel evacuated in roof space fire 2013-05-27T09:00:06Z It follows a disaster in the city on 24 April when an eight storey building collapsed killing more than 900 factory workers. Deadly fire kills eight in Dhaka 2013-05-09T06:04:42Z Detectives are investigating his role in advising Rana on adding three storeys to the building; their weight is one of the main suspected causes of the collapse. Bangladesh factory collapse: rescuers find owner's gun as death toll hits 550 2013-05-04T16:45:53Z Last week an eight storey building in the capital city Dhaka fell down with thousands of workers inside. Primark to give money to victims 2013-04-30T13:08:59Z The building, in the Kariakoo district, was at least 12 storeys high. Tanzanians dig for survivors after building collapse 2013-03-29T14:38:55Z A huge fluorescent owl perches on a giant chair, which rises to almost two storeys, standing alongside a vast television set. Giant tigers and rooftop teepees: the Royal London Hospital play space 2013-02-21T11:56:14Z "Even our balcony, which is almost 10 storeys up, is sometimes uninhabitable." Living with the Egypt protests 2013-01-29T12:26:01Z Clothes were still hanging from the walls eight storeys up, but the people they belonged to were now buried under the rubble far below. Egypt's illegal construction time bomb 2013-01-25T12:45:40Z Third, and perhaps most profound, González saw the promise for a Puerto Rican House that gets stronger, but not by adding another storey to the top, but by strengthening the foundation below. "The Fifth Floor" (El Quinto Piso): Who Will Rebuild the House of Puerto Rico? 2013-01-16T15:32:23Z The fire started on the ninth floor of the 14 storey block, which housed 98 maisonettes. Man 'lost entire family' in blaze 2013-01-15T12:25:32Z The three storey wall of fame showcasing memorabilia from inspirational men and women who have come from the town. TV pioneer inspires media academy 2013-01-03T00:50:06Z A report to Wednesday night's meeting said the rest of the development is "characterised by three-to-four storey terraces of houses and taller five-to-six storey apartment blocks". Hundreds of Cardiff homes backed 2012-12-20T16:57:29Z Details on the second stage - a building up to 20 storeys high made up of offices, flats and a hotels - still have to be decided. 'It was a very exciting place to be' 2012-12-19T12:24:09Z The food-preparation centre, spread over 12,500 square metres on four storeys, goes through three tonnes of meat a day as it prepares grub with military precision. Foxconn: When workers dream of a life beyond the factory gates 2012-12-13T16:07:43Z Day Five: Three Gorges Dam Rising from the waters of the Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam stands more than 40 storeys high. Week in China: Three Gorges Dam 2012-11-02T03:41:56Z Israelis on the lower floors of buildings were instructed to find safe ground outside, and those on higher storeys to shelter in fortified rooms, with doors kept open, or under sturdy furniture. Israel swaps missile drills for earthquake rehearsal 2012-10-21T19:30:44Z Israelis on the lower floors of buildings were instructed to find safe ground outside, and those on higher storeys to shelter in fortified rooms or under sturdy furniture. Quakes, not Iranian missiles, loom in new Israeli drill 2012-10-21T09:10:47Z He will be carried aloft by a gigantic balloon that measures 30m square cubic feet and whose skin is a mere one-tenth the thickness of a sandwich bag despite being 55 storeys high. Felix Baumgartner tries to break sound barrier with freefall jump – live 2012-10-14T11:57:59Z The man had thrown her, limp and handcuffed, off the bridge four storeys above a river reservoir. Stress: The roots of resilience 2012-10-10T17:21:26.287Z It will be 55 storeys high on lift-off, and as wide as a football field when fully inflated in the stratosphere; but the membrane itself will be just 20 microns thick. A man on ledge, 23 miles up and no fear 2012-10-08T07:39:46Z If the pilot flies towards the top storeys of New York’s Freedom Tower—which have not yet been built—the control panel flashes red and warns him to change course. Business and America’s fiscal cliff: Give us a brake 2012-10-04T15:05:52Z She was barefoot, fleeing what remained of her home in a three storey apartment block. Aleppo's deadly aerial warfare 2012-09-17T04:00:07Z Williams bought the $2.9m property – hardwood floors, an open plan salon and four bedrooms with breathtaking views over three storeys – last year. Twitter founder's home demolition plans a trending topic for neighbours 2012-08-09T15:19:44Z Manufacturers such as Toshiba are moving machinery to the second storey, setting up sister operations in other countries and finding back-up warehouses and suppliers, though the bulk of operations remain in Thailand. Insight: Flood risk rampant across Asia's factory zones 2012-07-22T18:18:30Z Last month, one anonymous owner listed a storey of the building on a US-based property auction website for almost 20m dirhams. Offices stand empty in tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa 2012-07-21T23:12:57Z On Wednesday, TV images showed flames several storeys high right on the edge of Madeira's main town, Funchal. Madeira hit by forest wildfires 2012-07-20T04:27:44Z With funding secured, the next challenge began - constructing 87 storeys on London clay next to a tidal river in a densely populated area. Shard stands tall against critics 2012-07-04T03:04:31Z An escalator holding up portions of the second storey was found to be in danger of collapse. Bodies found in Canada mall wreck 2012-06-28T02:39:07Z Microsoft's offices in Athens suffered serious damage to the lobby and first storey in the attack. Microsoft's Greek offices attacked by armed arsonists 2012-06-27T11:19:45Z Astonishingly, given its age, the home in question was also built on two storeys. Could Mohenjo Daro be lost forever? 2012-06-26T23:06:47Z One of the most coveted beauty products in Asia is found inside a damp and dark three storey house in southern Malaysia's Johor state. RFID technology thwarts bird's nest counterfeiters 2012-05-28T23:00:07Z Two sides of the courtyard are a building site of five hollow storeys. The internet business in Russia: Europe?s great exception 2012-05-17T15:05:40Z They are only one storey high and have no fronts in them. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Accordingly, the two captives were carried up to the top storey of the building, where, after their legs had been tightly bound, they were locked up in an empty room. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z Outside the sub-way are ordinary house vaults of two or three storeys high, according to the height of the Viaduct. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z "He may have got to the upper storey," Jacob Carey said. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z Only yesterday one of his oldest patients jumped out of a fourth storey window and was dashed to pieces. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z Its streets are for the most part narrow and irregular, and contain many old houses with overhanging upper storeys and richly and curiously adorned wooden fa�ades. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The apartments of the tower are highly ornamented, consisting of four storeys, all of different orders of architecture, and adorned with busts and statues of Kings of France and heathen gods. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The town is composed of stone-built houses of several storeys, and is surrounded, except on the sea face, by a fortified enceinte. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z He looked at me also for a minute, and then turned and walked upstairs to an upper storey where the nursery was situated, beckoning me, with a jerk of his hand, to follow him. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Quite a walk," she added, "for his study is at the far end of the top storey. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z The business houses are mostly of brick or stone, and range from two to six storeys in height. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The next storey held two apartments: one for Mr. Stevenson, in which he had his hammock, desk, chair and table, books and instruments. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The roofs were thatched with straw on battens, and sometimes with a collar beam carrying a floor, which constituted an upper storey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Not being able to walk, how he had been spirited from the top storey to the bottom I leave my readers to determine. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z Inside the building, the same tale was retold and on every storey illustrated afresh. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z And his mother looked out from the upper storey and sang, "My child, that is he, Nunda who eats people." Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z We are in the first storey, surrounded by stores of wood and ropes and workmen’s tools. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z They also live in small houses of a traditional and antiquated character, often of one storey only or built back to back. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The leftward half had been partitioned off and converted into two storeys--the lower story raised a little from the ground for the sake of dryness--of more modern chambers. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z This was a large well-designed building, four storeys high, two of them having open loggie in the Italian fashion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z And the Sultan's wife stayed in the upper storey, and there she gave birth to a son, and she called him Mohammed. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z In the third storey is the kitchen, with its pantry and larder, on a level with the first gallery. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The plans of many Roman houses are shown on the Marble Plan, and they resemble those of Pompeii, but it is probable that the principal reception rooms were on an upper storey, long since destroyed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Then came something more from mademoiselle, which the eavesdropper could not catch, and Toinon had but time to flee with all her speed to the upper storey, ere the marquis opened the door. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z It consists of five storeys of red sandstone and white marble. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z And his mother, looking out from the upper storey, sang, "My child, that is not Nunda who kills people." Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z The eighth storey contains vessels of oil, glasses, revolving lamps, some admirable instruments intended for meteorological observations, a thermometer, barometer, and chronometer. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z If the pavilions are two or more storeys high, it is advisable to use fire-proof material as much as possible, but single-storeyed huts may be of wood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z None of the buildings boast of more than a single storey, which is elevated on posts, a yard above the ground; this by reason of earthquakes, and unclean insects, which have no respect for Emperors. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Dark bands of Arabic writing round the three lower storeys contrast with the red sandstone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Go and tell the Sultan that his little snake wants a stone house of seven storeys in which to live. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z The top storey was surmounted by a pyramidal roof, and was lined with four tiers of berths, capable of accommodating thirty people. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z In England the majority have two to three storeys each, the ward unit containing a ward for twenty beds and two isolation wards for one and two beds respectively. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Many people are feared trapped in the rubble of a 3 storey factory in the Pakistani city of Lahore following a gas explosion. VIDEO: Pakistan factory explosion 2012-02-06T15:48:42Z The basement storey has the same number of faces formed into convex flutes which are alternately angular and semicircular. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z He built a house of seven storeys, and, in this house he put his seven sisters who had come with him from the Jins. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z The next floor has on each side an arcade of three lancets, and the storey above a window of two lights beneath an arch of two mouldings, forming a splay of four banded pillars. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The question next arises, is it better to have pavilions of two or more storeys high, or to have single-storeyed huts or cottages scattered more widely? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Above the doorways and windows of each of the concrete buildings -- some five or six storeys high -- black soot from fires paints the wall. Libya's "hostages of war" 2012-02-01T14:08:06Z A bold projecting balcony, richly ornamented, runs round each storey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z They came and built a house of seven storeys in the space of seven days, and the wages they asked for were given them. Black Tales for White Children 2012-02-28T03:00:29.837Z This brings us into a commonplace street; where, however, we should notice on our right a row of thatched cottages, with their overhanging upper storeys, that have survived from olden days. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The two storeys in modern fever hospitals, however, are absolutely distinct—that is, there is no internal staircase going from one ward to the others, for each is entered separately from the outside. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Its height is calculated at about thirty-six feet; the first storey being about twenty feet, the second, ten, and the third, six. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z In the upper storeys were the men's rooms; on the ground-floor the women's. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z The square main block of the building rose in the centre two storeys high, and on each side a wing of one storey projected. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z This door opens into the lower storey of the Library, which contains nothing of interest except a not very inspired statue of Wordsworth. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The great majority are in tenement houses of three storeys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z This side-street was narrow and exceeding dark, for the storeys of the houses on each side projected one above the other until the gables nearly met at the top. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z But here was one with lighted windows on the first and second storeys staring out calmly on the snow as though never a Prussian soldier had crossed the Rhine. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z Readers of Dickens will remember that it was a large house, with an attic storey, in which Ralph committed suicide. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z The houses were neatly built of cabbage-tree, with the roofs of wild canes, thatched with palmito royal, and were surrounded by plantain walks; they had no upper storeys. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z In 1842, it was dull and unattractive enough: a square brick building of three storeys, covered with shabby whitewash, and hanging tiles. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z For a wall, broken here and there by round turrets, circled about the edge of the cliff and hid the lower storey from our sight. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z It was a massy, time-worn building, rising in some places to the height of six storeys, battlemented at the top, and roofed with grey stone. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z The house is a modest-looking dwelling of three storeys, with white-washed plaster front as in former days, six steps leading up to the front door, and a small garden before and behind. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z They form a square block four storeys high and carry a domed turret at each end of the western fa�ade, from the centre of which rises a massive tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z It is of two storeys, and, allowing for its plainness, is in the Italian style. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Unpretentious structures they were, never more than one storey high, and roofed with black tiles. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The houses are usually one storey, very plain and unpretending but scrupulously clean. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z A rural establishment one storey high, which had the benefit of the air from the yards of Horsemonger Lane Jail, and the advantage of a retired walk under the wall of that pleasant establishment. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z On the opposite side, at the corner of High Street, stood the ancient tolbooth, or prison, a turreted building, five storeys high, with a fine Jacobean crown tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z I looked over my shoulder as we came to the head of a second staircase leading down another storey, to see if the supposed "waiters" were behind us. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Close by I saw a modest structure, one storey high, more like a peasant's hut than anything else, and I could scarcely believe that this was the station intended for Mukden, the capital of Manchuria. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z As in all Spanish American cities exposed to earthquakes, most of the houses in Lima also are but one storey high. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z The house, now occupied by the assistant verger, is a gabled wooden structure of two storeys, built over the stone gateway beneath. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z The theatre, lofty and airy, though of but one storey, without either boxes or gallery, had far more the 276appearance of a concert-room than a regular theatre. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z This borg, like most crude desert halting-places for men and beasts, was a one storey building which enclosed a large courtyard on three sides. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z They are very long and of only one storey high, half hidden by ancient trees. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z It stood at one corner of the building on the ground floor, but was two storeys high, and as lofty, in fact, as a church. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Then Captain Cuttle’s lodgings, at once a first floor and a top storey, in Brig Place, were close before you.” Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Here also the lofty, light chambers in the upper storeys command a magnificent prospect. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z It was just a substantial brick building, six or seven storeys in height, with facings of light-coloured stone, and large, cheerful windows. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z If I were asked what were the most striking objects I passed on the road, I should mention two pagodas, one of which is particularly beautiful, seven storeys high, and richly carved. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Sometimes the masonry or brickwork rises through two or three storeys and the half-brick work is confined to the gables. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Here, in an eligible position, there may be seen Stanley Mount, a villa residence of two storeys, with bow windows and contiguous lawn. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z From the billiard-room and parlour on the first storey, the eye is charmed by a marvellous landscape commanding the Bay of Manila and the mountains that surround it. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Evidently there were two flats to each storey. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Mrs. Carlile and children were taken out of the house from the second storey window, and escaped injury except the fright and nervous shock. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z The greater part is of two storeys, and surmounted by battlements. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The houses, though usually of only one storey, are solidly and comfortably constructed; many of them are surrounded by large gardens and courts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z A doorway in this storey admits to a staircase leading to the gallery above. Ecclesiastical Curiosities 2011-12-13T03:00:24.507Z We occupied the lower floor and some apartments in the highest storey. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Mounting the dirty and narrow stairs indicated, as far as the third storey, he suddenly became aware of someone crying. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z There were two storeys, and notwithstanding the very heavy tax on glass, it shone in every window, and these were of useful size. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z This was not very long, not containing more than fifty or sixty houses, but these were mostly of a handsome appearance, resembling English houses for the most part, two storeys in height, and whitewashed. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z In Maina the villagers live in fortified towers of three or more storeys; the animals occupy the ground floor, the family the topmost storey; the intermediate space serves as a granary or hay-loft. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Then I raised my eyes, and saw my poor father at a window in the upper storey, with trembling limbs, dragging himself forward on his stick to catch a glimpse of me. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Again he ordered still another press, which arrived in Alton on the night of the 7th inst., and was safely deposited in a large stone warehouse four or five storeys high. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The second storey is the repository of the Host, and in the third and fourth storeys are figures of the Church Triumphant and the Holy Trinity. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Its houses are of the usual central American type, constructed of adobe, rarely more than one storey high, and surrounded by courtyards with ornamental gateways. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z This entrance is formed by two towers of reddish brick, placed back to back, and united by an upper storey. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The lower storey of the tower consisted of a barrel-vaulted chamber, originally enclosed from the church, and entered only by a small and strongly-barred doorway, similar to that at Burgh. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z So long as she lived, her small salon in the attic storey of the great house was a centre of attraction for many of the most illustrious personages in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Originally the pila was a tall construction of three storeys on columns, with a large cross. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Thence it is elevated to an upper storey and passed through an automatic weigher capable of taking a charge of 1 ton. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Above a similar but single arcade at the opposite end of the court rises the square massive upper storey of the Tower of Comares, with its crenellated summit. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Ainu huts have never more than one storey and never more than one room and a small porch. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z It comprises, in addition to the workshops, three large buildings, four storeys high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z In 1624 the building was altered and spoiled by the addition of another storey of the composite order. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The cottages are, with three or four exceptions, thatched and without any upper storey. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Of the minaret, once equal to the Giralda and, like it, once surmounted by great metal globes, only the lowest storey remains, an earthquake having thrown down the superstructure in the sixteenth century. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z On the fourth storey was the wardrobe, a magnificent doll's wardrobe. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z The castle has two storeys, is 90 ft. by 84 ft., has a square tower and circular domed towers at the corners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The custodia is about twelve feet high, round in form, with four storeys, each one supported by twenty-four columns. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z The heavy arch that connects the tower with the upper storey of Or San Michele, and rather disfigures the building, is the work of Buontalenti in the latter half of the sixteenth century. The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z This court, though still harmonious and beautiful, suffered rather than benefited by its restoration in 1843; but the architecture has been not unsuccessfully reproduced in the upper storey. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z On the third storey a bedroom, with the sweetest little beds--real actual beds--and a wash-hand stand, where everything was to be found, down to the most minute details. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z Samson finished one storey in the great tower at the west end. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z The windows of the upper storey were only faintly lighted here and there. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z This enormous fabric of marble and brick, stands facing a wide open piazza on two sides of which are low houses—houses of three storeys are very rare in the older parts of the city. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The building is long and remarkably narrow, and of two storeys. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z “Yes, sir,” replied Bertram, and privately wondered if he would even find his way again to that cage-like cloak-room in the hold, and that “horizontal section of the fo’c’sle three storeys down.” Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z On each side of a vast court are stretched forth two wooden constructions, made of trunks of trees, and only one storey high. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z With these kind words, heartily spoken, the grave-looking man walked up the broad staircase towards the first storey, while the old door-keeper watched him with respectful pleasure, and then returned to his lodge. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z Rising in two storeys from the ground, which is six feet below the present level of the surrounding orchards, its dome is barely visible above the tops of the fruit trees. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Here again there is a tower graceful enough, in its lower storey recalling the Giralda. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The law courts, built in the ’eighties, have a ground floor of concrete and iron, the upper storey being of hardwood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Within two years I made away with the two storeys; nothing remained to me but the street door. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Orange and blood-red gleams glowed over the flat stone tables of the roofs, which were not higher than a single pillared storey and which spread out their immense terrace like a paved desert. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The lower storey rests on a platform of stone. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The little house, only one storey high, which in its best days contained, at the most, five habitable rooms, was a lamentable picture of transitoriness. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z To Caroline it was a relief when the housekeeper called to her from the doorway, and then led her upstairs to a bedroom in the third storey. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z I inherited from my father a stone house, two storeys high. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z One of them has just glided out of the lowest storey of his dwelling, which is under the water. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The upper storey is reached by two flights of steps which, built outside, give entrance to the sepulchral chamber from a gallery or platform that circulates round the exterior. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z She whipped him upstairs, and she whipped him down, and finally she whipped him over the window, which was two storeys high. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z Without replying, she hurried to the staircase, and ran up the steps to the second storey. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z In 1611 James City boasted of two fair rows of dwellings, all of framed timber, two storeys and garret, or corn-loft, high. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The chambers in the storeys above were used for the purposes of civil administration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Many of the houses here are seven, eight, or nine storeys high. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z |
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