| 单词 | tower block |
| 例句 | It took a clobbering in the Blitz—I wasn’t there, thank God—and the replacement buildings and the tower block are a national disgrace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They visited its site and found a tower block of offices. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He is a demolition expert and the Barracks was the local name for Barrington Heights, the tallest tower block in our South London borough. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘He wasn’t looking at Manhattan, Kat. Or the sun. He was looking at something that reminded him of Manhattan. A big tower block. He was looking at the Barracks.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The simple strategy game charges players with building and managing a tower block, placing amenities and residential blocks on each floor to keep the occupants entertained and employed. Tiny Tower; SuperRope ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:31Z At the other end are 1930s tower blocks, built on the sites of old piggeries and Gypsy slums and still housing modern "undesirables". TV recview: The Secret History of Our Streets; The Strange Case of the Law 2012-06-27T21:00:01Z It firmly argues that building single-family homes rather than tower blocks creates a sense of individual pride in their residents and avoids public spaces becoming neglected and mired in criminal behaviour. Show Me a Hero: is the HBO mini-series David Simon's return to form? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z In the play, Mowgli is a homeless young refugee wandering through dilapidated tower blocks, forced to contend with adversaries like King Louis and the monkeys, who are portrayed as a street gang. 'Concrete Jungle Book' musical swaps bare necessities for harsh realities 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Steeped in the fear of poverty, the film prompts us to wonder what’s gestating in those low-income tower blocks: feral monsters or economically deprived delinquents? Movie Review: ‘Citadel,’ Set in Glasgow, Directed by Ciaran Foy 2012-11-09T01:00:17Z A 2019 edition of “The Rough Guide to France” describes the area as “a strange semi-derelict pedestrian area seemingly suspended between giant tower blocks.” ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z His debut movie is a sci-fi action comedy about a London teen gang in South London who must defend their tower block against an alien invasion. The best films for spring 2011 2011-04-05T19:00:01Z Racism, revenge and a cross-cultural romance compete for screen time in Paul Ireland’s “Measure for Measure,” a dolorous reimagining of Shakespeare’s play set in and around a tower block in Melbourne, Australia. ‘Measure for Measure’ Review: Rising by Sin in Melbourne 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Her unsureness of self is even more affecting for being belted out in a voice whose natural habitat is pealing out across the city: out of windows, cars, across tower blocks and parks. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass and the year's best summer jams 2011-08-17T16:15:54Z All around, nondescript tower blocks are being built as the centre rapidly loses its historical identity in the name of progress. Cine-files: Cine Arte Normandie, Santiago de Chile 2013-07-09T09:24:00Z Royal lives atop his brutalist tower block, regarding calmly as the social experiment beneath implodes. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But Close is in high spirits and radiates such warmth I barely notice the chill from the tower block’s air-con. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Brand knows he's one of the lucky ones – but sobriety is unlikely to deliver the same happy ending to someone still stuck in a tower block, unemployable and destitute. Russell Brand: 'It's irrelevant what other people think of you' 2013-02-03T20:00:01Z In Baker’s images, we see the clash of old and new as sooty children play in front of decrepit houses, with tower blocks emerging in the distance. Shirley Baker’s Half Century of Street Photography 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z The images present a normal, mundane townscape turning into a warzone, with tanks running past semis and pitched battles among the terraces and tower blocks. Derry has built bridges – but its industry won't come back 2013-06-21T10:00:49Z In the play, Mowgli is a homeless young refugee wandering through dilapidated tower blocks, forced to contend with adversaries like King Louis and the monkeys, who are portrayed as a street gang. 'Concrete Jungle Book' musical swaps bare necessities for harsh realities 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Strapped into a harness, he was dangled over the side of the tower block and dropped, backwards. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z Casey lives in London's grottiest tower block, so she's grown up with a tough streak, but her father being arrested has just made her fall apart. Race the Wind by Lauren St John - review 2013-05-09T14:00:00Z The well-known dislike of tower blocks and of developers will come out in his poems as Poet Laureate as heretofore. From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him 2012-10-11T06:30:00Z The outside of the tower block includes wall paintings by French street artist Tore. In Pictures: Tour Paris 13 2013-10-25T13:39:27Z It’s a wasteland of public housing and tower blocks, roaming gangs and bloody ends. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z The art project, which is the brainchild of gallery owner Mehdi Ben Cheikh, is known as Tour Paris 13, after the district of Paris in which the tower block is located. In Pictures: Tour Paris 13 2013-10-25T13:39:27Z Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty The demolition of a tower block on the Red Road estate in Glasgow on 10 June will mark the beginning of the end of one of Britain's most controversial developments. Red Road demolition ends Glasgow tower blocks' high art 2012-06-07T14:22:22Z I live in Hawaii half the year, and there, there’s always a new building, a new road, a new business, a new tower block. Why Paul Theroux Loves Cape Cod 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Tickets are expensive and hard to obtain, and the sparkly new stadia are fenced off behind barbed wire, with anti-aircraft gun emplacements positioned on tower blocks. London 2012 anti-logos 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z The setting, for one thing: a sun-bleached multicultural Mediterranean port which mixes fabulous villas with brutalist tower blocks, and where drugs disrespect the boundaries between the two. Mishap on the Med 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z This novel isn't set Out There, but well and truly here, in a condemned tower block. Elizabeth Laird's top 10 books about tough stuff from out there 2012-05-17T08:00:00Z Singer Adele was among people who gathered on Wednesday night close to a London tower block that was destroyed in a catastrophic fire, according to posts on social media. Singer Adele joins vigil for victims of London tower block inferno 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It pictures identical family units en masse, going about identical lives, in apparently infinite identical flats and offices, in tower blocks that stretch upwards and outwards forever. Artist of the week 202: Hariton Pushwagner 2012-08-09T14:27:00Z Politicians want bombast one moment – the Palace of Westminster, pre-fab tower blocks, the Greenwich Dome – and banality the next, especially when the financial going gets tough. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z We lived on the fourth floor of a tower block. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z Melbourne looked so grim in the 1992 classic – like parts of London with graffiti and tower blocks and angry dogs. Russell Crowe's divorce auction: what's under the hammer 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z So yes, a decade on, they are still working in that dilapidated tower block. The Office: Twilight of the tea trolly 2011-07-08T20:30:00Z She sits in front of the window at her studio, all plants and art, wood floor and grand piano, at the top of a short tower block in Hoxton, east London. Sally Potter: 'I dreamed about the nuclear threat most nights' 2012-10-04T19:30:02Z Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Clara and Eleanor are living and hunting in a dreary contemporary British city when the story opens, holed up in a tower block. Movie Review: ‘Byzantium’ Draws on Caribbean Vampire Folklore 2013-06-27T21:44:42Z One contained an eight-minute film of two tower blocks typical of the French housing projects that sprang up in the 1970s. Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Petit scrutinises London – seen in the first third – with a fierce Ballardian eye, contemplating the tower blocks and flyovers of Shepherd's Bush with monochrome intensity. London and Radio On: watch the double bill 2012-11-30T15:02:03Z When she's not with the horses, she lives in East London's grimmest tower block. The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John - review 2013-03-28T09:00:00Z They also look like the much-reviled tower blocks of the 1960s, except that the latter had more generous landscaping, and larger rooms than are likely in the new ones. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z Villas on the promenade dating back to the 1920s give it a different air to the usual tower blocks we associate with the costas. Valencia and beyond 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The Unesco-listed building’s glazed facade and “rectilinear volume” inspired a thousand UK factories, not to mention tower blocks and state schools. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z That tower blocks and high-rise housing projects would forever eradicate poverty? Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z Inside, though, is a thriller in which Casey – a Badminton horse trial champion from a Hackney tower block – wrestles with a blackmail plot and a sore heart. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z McQueen, whose real first name was Lee, the youngest son of a taxi driver and teacher who grew up in a tower block in Stratford, remained extremely proud of his working-class East End roots. Alexander McQueen exhibition becomes New York's latest blockbuster 2011-08-09T17:53:56Z Strolling the avenues of New Belgrade, with its ranks of concrete tower blocks, it was not the architecture that drew my attention at first. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z They form a cityscape of tower blocks through which the monks, having changed into natty black suits, vault and leap like eager businessmen. Sutra | Dance review 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z After taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Hoverd became a midwife, cycling to deliver babies in Poplar and Bow’s back-to-back terraces and, later, tower blocks. Nuns who inspired Call the Midwife forced to sell their home 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Grime in its first flush of youth was thrilling because it was claustrophobic, a hectic cacophony of beats and synth stabs, channelling the high-rise tension of the tower blocks, the limited horizons, and possibilities. Pow!: anthem for kettled youth 2011-02-03T21:30:00Z All the works are temporary and will be demolished along with the tower block at the end of the year. In Pictures: Tour Paris 13 2013-10-25T13:39:27Z “Once you put these people in Gropius- or Le Corbusier-style tower blocks, cut off from each other, with that relentless climate, you’re creating a situation that is potentially explosive.” Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The installation resembles a mini tower block made up of myriad photographs. Tower blocks and tomes dominate the Rencontres d'Arles 2011-07-11T15:26:24Z Although many are now in disrepair, these cities’ tower blocks and raised highways reflect the ambitions of nationalist governments in the 1950s and 1960s. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Geeneus reckons he has transmitted from every tower block in east London. Rinse FM pirate radio station goes legit 2010-10-10T18:18:00Z Fire and electrical inspection reports of an evacuated tower block have shown "significant" failings in the building. Barton House: 'Significant' failings in evacuated tower block 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A tower block subject to an emergency evacuation was not constructed according to plans, a city councillor has said. Barton House 'not built according to plans' says councillor 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Hundreds of people living in a tower block were told to leave their homes immediately after "major structural faults" were discovered. Barton House in Bristol evacuated over 'structural fault' 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The crane was one of two around a half-built tower block between the road and the River Aire. Leeds city centre cordon lifted after 'unstable' crane concerns 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z This was more than 20 tower blocks, and hundreds of homes. 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Building surveys carried out on the council-owned building showed the tower block would be unsafe in the event of a fire or explosion, prompting the evacuation. Barton House: 'Significant' failings in evacuated tower block 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Lone parent Leonie Ward was fast asleep in her tower block flat when a neighbour spotted a person dressed in dark clothing pushing at her window from the outside. Thurrock tower block scaffolding 'is a ladder for cat burglars' 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z The council said it had been carrying out building surveys on tower block in Redfield, which dates from 1958 and is the oldest in its estate, as it decided on the structure's long-term future. Barton House in Bristol evacuated over 'structural fault' 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z A sports facility just south of the tower blocks, seen in the image below, was covered by grey ash from the attacks. Gaza before and after: Satellite images show destruction 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Mahmoud led the crowd, which included not just residents of the tower blocks, but also other displaced people who had sought shelter in al-Zahra after fleeing their own homes elsewhere in northern Gaza. 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours' 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z "Last night was the most difficult night that we spent at the tower block. They targeted all the surrounding areas and the children were terrified." Fleeing Gaza mother cries: 'What did my children do to deserve this?' 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Residents, including Ms Ward, say they are scared, vulnerable and feel "trapped" in the three Seabrook Estate tower block flats in Thurrock. Thurrock tower block scaffolding 'is a ladder for cat burglars' 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Avon Fire and Rescue Service said it has been liaising with the council since it undertook the survey on the tower block. Barton House in Bristol evacuated over 'structural fault' 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, who denounced the Hamas attacks, said civilians had been harmed in Israeli strikes on tower blocks, schools and U.N. buildings. Israel pounds Gaza with fiercest air strikes ever 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said civilians had been harmed in strikes on tower blocks, schools and U.N. buildings. Israel pounds Gaza with fiercest air strikes ever 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z A large cordon was put around the tower block. Crews tackle severe 11th floor flat fire in Coventry 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Videos of the aftermath show water gushing through the port city’s remaining tower blocks and overturned cars, and later, bodies lined up on sidewalks covered with blankets, collected for burial. How Libya’s chaos left its people vulnerable to deadly flooding 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z He said the tower block "should have been condemned years ago". Barton House in Bristol evacuated over 'structural fault' 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z According to The Times, a source told the paper of fears the barge could become a "floating Grenfell", in reference to the west London tower block tragedy in 2017. Bibby Stockholm: Fire safety concerns over migrant barge 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z A BBC team on the ground confirmed the top floor of a large residential tower block was almost completely destroyed in the strike on Friday evening. Ukraine war: Missile strikes residential building in Dnipro 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z His uncle was among 72 people killed in the London tower block fire in 2017, and has in the past urged the team to cuts its ties with the insulation firm. Grenfell: Ulster Rugby agrees Kingspan sponsorship extension 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z That had been called for by former prime minister Theresa May and Grenfell United, a group of survivors and bereaved relatives of the victims of the tower block blaze that claimed 72 lives in 2017. Grenfell Tower and Awaab Ishak tributes as social housing bill passes 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z East of Ankara, gleaming tower blocks have been springing up in Kirikkale. Turkish presidency run-off decides if Erdogan should have five more years 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z However, there is such togetherness, that they are planning to top this up with food grown in a new allotment in the grounds of the 1960s tower block. Food prices: Clever technology tackles shortages as prices soar 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The tower block used to house single people in studio flats but is currently being used by Newham Council to provide temporary and emergency accommodation. Thousands of children sharing beds due to overcrowding 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z The noise came from military helicopters flying low over residential tower blocks. Sudan: Civilians not spared as Khartoum fighting touches residential areas 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Emergency services were called to reports of a blaze on the eleventh floor of the Clyde Grange tower block at about 09:30 BST on Saturday. Leeds tower block fire: Man dies in Clyde Grange blaze 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z The story is based on the experiences of those who were living in the tower block in North Kensington, west London, in June 2017, which killed 72 people. Grenfell: Play based on survivors' accounts staged at National Theatre 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z We traced the shop to an area of grimy tower blocks in the north of the city. The chef, the model and Rishi's missing millions 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z More than 120 tower block residents have been evacuated after flooding affected their building's electrics. Birmingham tower block residents evacuated after flooding 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The proposals are the latest step in response to the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people in the west London tower block. Social housing bosses could need formal qualifications 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z It is not yet known how the drama will depict the night of the fire itself in the London tower block. Grenfell Tower fire tragedy to be turned into BBC TV drama 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Rescuers still on site believed that a 20-year-old woman was trapped under the rubble of a high-rise tower block. Turkey-Syria earthquake: NI rescuers 'worked through the night' 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z The large Gazi middle school near the stadium is still standing but looks badly damaged - two neighbouring residential tower blocks, next to the school, were completely collapsed. Turkey earthquake: One ruined neighbourhood at the centre of the devastation 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The intensity of the tremors also brought down tower blocks and public buildings in northern Syria and was felt as far as Cyprus and Lebanon. Turkey earthquake: Before and after images show extent of destruction 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z An inquiry found that cladding installed on the tower block in west London helped the fire spread because it was made from combustible material. Grenfell fire: Housing developers given ultimatum to fix unsafe buildings 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z A tower block fire in Urumqi killed 10 people, triggering a wave of public fury. China Covid: Xi's face-saving exit from his signature policy 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z "I am angry," said Mr Gordon, who was recently injured in a fall in the tower block stairwell. Thurrock: Council with £469m budget gap 'took risks' 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The square comprises a strip of shops and houses, while a tower block looms over it. Autumn Statement: Relief for some, but energy fears still loom 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Visiting foreign dignitaries regularly trek up from Kyiv to gaze upon — and be photographed in front of — the blackened tower blocks. 'They didn’t expect us to fight back': How one street in Ukraine survived 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Unconfirmed footage of the incident showed a huge fireball engulfing a tower block. Russian tower block in flames as aircraft crashes 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z In the years following its acquisition by Malaysian investors in 2012, several shiny tower blocks sprung up and along came cocktail bars, coffee shops and cafes. Battersea Power Station opens after decades of decay 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z 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 In June, a large tower block fire was started by an e-bike battery malfunctioning as it charged. Call for ban on dangerous e-bike chargers after fires 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Bristol City Council owns the tower block and said the fire was contained in a flat. Electric bike caused fatal Bristol flat fire, council says 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The directorate is an Erdogan creation, employing some 1,500 people and headquartered in a tower block in Ankara. Special Report-Insiders reveal how Erdogan tamed Turkey’s newsrooms 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z On the ground in Ukraine, meanwhile, nine people in Mykolaiv were injured on Saturday — four of them children — following Russian strikes on a tower block there, the regional governor said. Anxiety surrounds Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant amid unrelieved fears of an attack 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Destroyed tower blocks stay flattened, with only their twisted foundations visible. ‘Gaza’s children are used to the death and bombing’ 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Back on a rooftop surrounded by tower blocks in the midst of Singapore's urban sprawl, Ms Goh may seem a world away from traditional agriculture. How Singapore is turning multi-storey car parks into farms 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Ahmed Sharif, who lives on third floor of the tower block with four children, said he had been warning the caretaker for months about electrical bikes being kept on the upper floors. Electric bike caused fatal Bristol flat fire, council says 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z About 125 firefighters are battling a fire at the top of a tower block in east London. Woolwich fire: Crews battle blaze at top of London tower block 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Officers were called to a tower block on Faulkners Farm Drive in Erdington, Birmingham, on Saturday morning after reports someone had fired a gun. Erdington: Police pelted with bottles and bricks at party 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z How is it for people living in a tower block of flats shrouded in plastic? Ipswich tower block residents endure heatwave behind plastic 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The view, from the top of a condemned tower block in east London, was to die for. London 2012: The legacy of the Olympics 10 years on 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z About 80 firefighters have been tackling a fire at a tower block in south-east London. Firefighters tackle Bromley tower block fire 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The missile fell in a wooded area between residential tower blocks. Zelenskiy adviser concedes key bastion could fall in eastern Ukraine 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z On one side, across the river, are the high-rise tower blocks and costly hotels on the island of Zamalek. Outcry in Egypt as iconic Nile houseboats are destroyed 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z With the bus depot a stone's throw away from the tower block, he thought it was going to be "perfect", but "it's not worked out as planned," he says. Ipswich tower block residents endure heatwave behind plastic 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z As things stand now, two of the three tower blocks condemned by Sir Robin will survive. London 2012: The legacy of the Olympics 10 years on 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z A disabled man who lives in a London tower block says he feels like “a prisoner in his own home” after he had to be carried to his flat on the sixth floor. Disabled man carried to flat after lift broke down 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Patients are being treated following a tower block blaze in west London, about a mile from Grenfell Tower. Patients being treated at tower block blaze near Grenfell 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Residential tower blocks are designed so that each flat is a concrete box. Grenfell's legacy: Should I 'stay put' if there's a fire in my tower block? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The city faced intense bombardment in the war's first months, with images showing tower blocks flattened to rubble. Ukraine war: President Zelensky visits Kharkiv in first trip outside Kyiv region 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z At least the view, from the top of a previously condemned tower block in east London, is still to die for. London 2012: The legacy of the Olympics 10 years on 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z She says, while some might question why disabled people would choose to live in tower blocks, there is often little choice when it comes to housing stock and affordability. Grenfell fire and PEEPs: 'I want to escape a burning building, not sit and wait' 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The rebuilt complex was presciently outfitted with bunkers — accessories common in Soviet-era factories, office buildings and tower blocks. Inside Mariupol’s besieged steel plant, a symbol of bravery and terror 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z For Georgie Hulme, who lives in a Manchester tower block with safety issues, her evacuation plan provides "huge peace of mind". Grenfell's legacy: Should I 'stay put' if there's a fire in my tower block? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z She felt safer here in the tower block apartment of Abakelia's family. Mariupol: Driving into the 'apocalypse' to save mum and dad 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The fire in the west London tower block in 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Minister unaware red tape cuts affected fire safety 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Seventy-two people died in the fire in the west London tower block in 2017. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Government unaware of fire risk levels - minister 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z It is a reflection of its town; guarded by a necklace of grey tower blocks, the neglected old stadium, and the house where Ceausescu was born. The dictator's hometown team split by bloody revolution 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The government estimates that on average 11 people in each tower block is mobility impaired. Grenfell's legacy: Should I 'stay put' if there's a fire in my tower block? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Seventy-two people died in the fire in a west London tower block in June 2017. Grenfell tragedy: Government is failing to act on inquiry report, says London mayor 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z One, the fire policy specialist Brian Martin, had been warned about fires engulfing tower blocks around the world, and concerns dangerous materials were being used in Britain. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Minister unaware red tape cuts affected fire safety 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The second part is now examining the causes of these events, including how the tower block came to be in a condition that allowed the fire to spread. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Government unaware of fire risk levels - minister 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z All around are the blackened shells of the sprawling tower blocks typical of Soviet-era dwellings. Dead buildings tower over uncollected corpses in Mariupol, on the front line of Ukraine's war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The video of burning tower blocks, bloodied children and corpses being lowered into mass graves even included a poignant violin underscoring. Perspective | Zelensky’s address to Congress was a dramatic appeal in three acts 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Anna and Tetiana are living in two tower blocks and have sent us videos documenting how they have been living through the new reality of war, and the difficult choices made between family and safety. Kyiv tower block residents record new life under siege 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Speaking from a 21-story glass tower blocks away from the legislative chambers to an audience of more than 100, Newsom said little about his vision for the final year of his first term. Facing reelection, Newsom touts the 'California way' and teases gas tax rebate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Many involved in the refurbishment or construction of residential tower blocks failed to understand this meant combustible cladding could not be used, the inquiry heard. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Government unaware of fire risk levels - minister 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Residents of a tower block in east London say they complained about fire alarms and a "stay put" policy before a major fire broke out. Whitechapel fire: Residents raised concerns before huge east London blaze 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Artillery and air strikes have caused severe damage in Irpin, with at least one attack leaving a residential tower block almost completely destroyed. Ukraine: Taking cover in a town under attack 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Artillery and air strikes have caused severe damage in the area, with at least one attack leaving a residential tower block almost completely destroyed. War in Ukraine: Citizens evacuate city of Irpin as homes are destroyed 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Building Safety Fund to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks across the UK. Residents 'living like animals' as cladding is replaced 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Shining a light inside the unused Church House tower block creates the heart shape, which beats on the hour every hour in the dark. Beating heart of light now on permanent display 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Flames could be seen fanning out of the 17th floor of the tower block, and footage showed burning debris falling to the ground. Whitechapel fire: Residents raised concerns before huge east London blaze 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Speaking on a visit to Poland, Johnson said Putin was prepared to “bomb tower blocks, to send missiles into tower blocks, to kill children, as we are seeing in increasing numbers.” Live: Live updates: Russia shells square in major Ukraine city 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z A man whose car was crushed by bricks blown off a tower block by Storm Eunice has hailed his "lucky escape". Storm Eunice: Car wrecked as bricks blown off tower block 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z We walk in shadows cast by the tower blocks of Cruddas Park, not far from the city centre. Levelling up: 'It's about people, not shiny new buildings' 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Michael Gove was making a building safety statement dealing with cladding issues in the wake of the tower block fire in June 2017. Gove warns Grenfell profiteers: We are coming for you 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Campaign groups have cautiously welcomed the proposals, but warned they ignored the costs of fixing other fire safety issues discovered on thousands of tower blocks across UK. Cladding: Developers told to act on lower-height buildings 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But inside the usually staid and uniform tower blocks, some homeowners have let their creative juices flow. From sake bars to yacht cabins, Singaporeans remodel no-frills public flats 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The government banned the use of combustible materials after the tower block fire in west London. Grenfell Tower inquiry: Government apologises to victims 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z During the previous two decades, the refurbishment of aging tower blocks by adding cladding to make buildings drier and warmer had become standard practice, as councils attempted to meet environmental requirements. Grenfell Tower: Governments hid fire safety risks, inquiry hears 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But the majority of the insulation used on the tower block was made by another company. Grenfell Tower: Rethink deal with Grenfell firm, Mercedes F1 urged 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z At its height, 46 firefighters were at the scene and some stayed at the tower block for several hours after the fire was brought under control. Eight people rescued from Birmingham tower block fire 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The tower block, which housed students from Queen's University Belfast, is the subject of a BBC Radio 4 series examining claims of paranormal experiences. Alanbrooke Hall: The Belfast building spooking UK listeners 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z At 07:00, it's still dark on the estates, but a trickle of kids emerge from the shadows of the tower blocks with rucksacks and wait at bus stops at various pick-up points. French school bus experiment brings hope to Toulouse estates 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Railway lines and highways intersect the tower blocks. AP PHOTOS: Urban gardens sprout hope in Marseille projects 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z People in a town centre tower block have had their flats shrouded in plastic for more than six months while cladding is removed. Ipswich tower block residents on life living behind plastic sheeting 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The June 2017 disaster at the west London tower block killed 72 people. Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Escape plans needed to avoid next disaster - union 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Several listeners carried out their own research into the origins of the tower block and the site on which it was built. Alanbrooke Hall: The Belfast building spooking UK listeners 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z A resident in a Birmingham tower block that is having combustible cladding removed, in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, explains his plight. 'We're paying to live in a dark, dull box' 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z At least 46 people have been killed and dozens more seriously injured in a fire at a 13-storey tower block in southern Taiwan. Firefighters battle Taiwan tower block blaze 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Chris Moore lives on the 13th floor of the tower block. Ipswich tower block residents on life living behind plastic sheeting 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z At least 46 people have been killed and dozens more seriously injured in a fire at a 13-storey tower block in southern Taiwan, officials say. Kaohsiung: Fire at Taiwan tower block kills at least 46 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z When the Beirut blast destroyed a tower block many people were missing, including an Ethiopian woman who lived there. How the search for Eleni brought three strangers together 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Construction does often mean emptiness in China, with overcapacity an issue in many of its cities where many tower blocks and shops stand without any residents. Climate change: Tracking China's steel addiction in one city 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Nearly the whole game is set in an empty hallway that seems frozen in the 1980s, its windows looking out onto a fog-wreathed wall of unremarkable tower blocks. Nightslink is an uncanny slice of retro-game horror 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z In a red-brick 1960s tower block, 20-year-old Oscar Stark is heating leftover vegetarian pasta. Why rent control isn’t working in Sweden 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Previously, EWS1 survey forms were only required on the tallest tower blocks. ‘Lenders won’t touch us - my home’s worth nothing' 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z The photo of Celine holding a doll in the ruins of the tower block that was brought down by Israeli air strikes next to her family home - which was also hit - clearly struck a chord. Gaza photographer hopes digital art boom can help raise aid money 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Home for her is an apartment that sits on the 13th floor of a tower block that was completed a few years ago. Climate change: Tracking China's steel addiction in one city 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z People living in a tower block wrapped in plastic as part of a procedure to remove cladding say the lack of light is affecting their health. Residents of Ipswich flats say cladding repairs affecting health 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, officials are investigating other tower blocks in the area for potential structural faults. Miami collapse: Remaining structure demolished over safety fears 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile. officials are investigating other tower blocks in the area for structural faults. Miami building collapse: Search efforts suspended ahead of demolition 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Officials are investigating other tower blocks for structural faults. Miami building collapse: Demolition date brought forward 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z In the mine, excavating machines that dwarf small tower blocks dig soft brown coal, also known as lignite, to provide fuel for the adjacent power plant. Turow: Vast Polish coal mine infuriates the neighbours 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The BBC understands most managing agents who administer tower blocks with the cladding are refusing to sign contracts with the government. Delay removing dangerous cladding ‘soul destroying’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z May 15 - An Israeli air strike destroys a 12-storey tower block that housed international news media organisations, while Palestinian militants fire rocket salvoes at Tel Aviv. Hamas and Israel: a history of confrontation 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Israel pounded Gaza on Saturday, destroying a tower block that housed news media organisations, while Palestinian rocket salvoes hit Tel Aviv. Trinidad and Tobago declares state of emergency as COVID-19 cases surge 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z The rocket fire escalated after the two residential tower blocks were brought down in Gaza. Israel-Gaza: Fears of war as violence escalates 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, Palestinian militants said they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike demolished a tower block in the Gaza Strip. Israel declares emergency in Lod as unrest spreads 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Parts of the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the tower block are alight, the brigade said. Fire breaks out in middle floors of Poplar tower block 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In Flemingsberg, a low-income Stockholm suburb packed with tower blocks clad in primary colours, a woman was stabbed in the apartment she shared with four young children. Safe Sweden faces up to wave of women's killings 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z And if you live in a tower block, where would you even charge one? Carbon: How calls for climate justice are shaking the world 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Plans for a 30-storey tower block in Glasgow city centre are being unveiled as part of a public consultation. 'Glasgow's tallest building' plan to be unveiled 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z A car was destroyed when an concrete slab from a Vladivostok tower block fell on to the windscreen. Near-miss experience in Russian snow-storm 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Now, he's taking the government to court to try to force high-rise building owners to put PEEPs in place in all tower blocks. Grenfell: 'My mother could have survived' 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Located at the City Hospital's yellow tower block, a familiar part of Belfast's skyline, its re-establishment further marks the seriousness of what Stormont is dealing with. Coronavirus: Can NI 'learn to live' with Covid-19? 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The Building Safety Minister, Lord Greenhalgh, says costs will be kept "affordable" and the government has set up a £1.6bn fund to pay for repairing taller tower blocks. 'Cost of removing cladding is ripping our lives apart' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z They gathered in the shadow of upmarket shopping malls and shiny tower blocks that are home to multinationals and other businesses in Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy. 'I want freedom': Thais mass to defy protest ban 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z One chart showed enormous tower blocks depicting the rising daily caseloads contrasted with barely perceptible bumps when the league resumed play in midsummer. Fearing Players Wouldn’t Listen, La Liga Appealed to Their Kids 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The fire at the west London tower block killed 72 people in 2017. Grenfell cladding company 'did not check safety' 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He arrived at the age of 13 and even helped to build the tower block where his family ended up living. Refugees left feeling helpless - again - by Beirut blast 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Which is not to say this story is true, only that it serves London’s folklore to fault a star for these exotic interlopers, their tropical plumage streaking the sky between grimed tower blocks. I Didn’t Mean to Adopt a Dozen Pet Snails 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z He points to different tower blocks, each with a different encounter with the authorities. Aboriginal Australians and the legacy of Empire 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z If it’s chaos you’re craving, opt for the busy bustling road in London’s Brixton, where red buses and white vans hurry past tower blocks seemingly unaware of the menacing dark cloud hovering above. 'Travel without moving': how people are seeing the world through strangers' windows 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z On 18 June, 700 residents of a tower block in the German city of Göttingen were quarantined, with some 100 cases detected. Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Away from the grey tower blocks and sprawling suburbs of Chile’s capital, Santiago, the country’s indigenous communities are facing new challenges during the pandemic. Chile’s indigenous communities face new challenges amid pandemic 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z She asked him whether he agreed that it contained "specific information" about what was proposed, including the type of insulation to be used in the tower block's outer cladding. Lead fire consultant 'ignored' cladding email 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z At the weekend, Melbourne authorities locked down about 3,000 people living in nine housing-estate tower blocks after at least 23 cases of infection were found. Melbourne begins second shutdown after cases spike 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z But for 3,000 people living in public housing tower blocks, an even stricter lockdown was imposed on Saturday. The tenants enduring Australia's toughest lockdown 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z On the weekend, authorities enacted a "hard lockdown" on nine housing estate tower blocks - confining 3,000 people to their homes - after a cluster of cases were found. Australia to close Victoria-New South Wales border 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z But the nine tower blocks in Flemington and North Melbourne face a "hard lockdown". Melbourne locks down tower blocks as cases rise 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z In the town centre, beneath a tower block decorated with Russian flags, some younger voters were scornful of the vote. Putin appeals to patriotism as vote reaches climax 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z If you build a tower block or a shopping centre there’s a free-for-all.” Construction safety is 'broken' say fire chiefs 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Seventy-two people died as a small kitchen fire in the west London tower block turned into the most deadly domestic blaze since World War Two. Virtual service to pay tribute to Grenfell victims 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Before the coronavirus pandemic ministers told those living in tower blocks with Grenfell-style cladding that it would be replaced by June this year. Grenfell anniversary 'more difficult' in lockdown 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Belfast City Hospital's tower block has been transformed into Northern Ireland's first Nightingale hospital - a 230-bed unit staffed by a team drawn from across Northern Ireland. How the UK's newest hospital was built in nine days 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z One marcher wrote Black Lives Matter on the memorial at the base of the tower block, as others watched on in silence before applauding as they finished. Crowds gather in Britain to support US George Floyd protests 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z The second phase of the probe into the west London tower block fire was halted in March over coronavirus restrictions. Grenfell Tower Inquiry on hold until at least July 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In tribute to each person who died, bells of London churches will toll 72 times and green lights will glow from tower block windows. Virtual service to pay tribute to Grenfell victims 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of people from mainly North African immigrant backgrounds live in tower blocks with high double-digit youth unemployment. France's boom city shaken by pandemic 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z I wonder if Cicero ever lived on the 17th floor of a tower block, as I once did. This crisis has changed our experience of home – and exposed the deep pain of poor housing | Suzanne Moore 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Belfast City Hospital's tower block is being transformed into Northern Ireland's first Nightingale hospital - it will become a 230-bed unit staffed by a team drawn from across Northern Ireland. How the UK's newest hospital was built in nine days 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Belfast City Hospital's tower block is being transformed into Northern Ireland's first Nightingale hospital. City Hospital to host NI's first Nightingale 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z It remains unclear why it would be valuable to mimic the shape of a tree in a housing proposal, specifically this housing proposal — except simply to break the idea of the tower block. The Architect Making Conceptual Art Out of Buildings 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z He became a confident navigator of a second, shadow London, favouring places where other people weren’t: boiler rooms, back staircases, parks after dark, the tops of tower blocks. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A woman on the balcony of a luxury tower block striking a gong and wailing into the sky: “My mother is dying, rescue me!” Xi Jinping has buried the truth about coronavirus | Ma Jian 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The fire at the west London tower block in June 2017 killed 72 people. Grenfell inquiry backs bid for evidence guarantee 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z The distinctive tower block will become a 230-bed unit staffed by a team drawn from across Northern Ireland. City Hospital to host NI's first Nightingale 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Arconic supplied the cladding on the outside of the west London tower block. Next stage of Grenfell fire inquiry to begin 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z She recalls going to homes in the tower blocks around the Bullring area. 'I tried to become the first female British Asian Tory MP' 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Some drivers might deliver their 120 packages within just a single Manhattan tower block and a couple of adjacent buildings. How our home delivery habit reshaped the world 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Many UK tower block residents are unable to sell or re-mortgage their homes due to new cladding guidelines, introduced in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Cladding puts flat owners' lives on hold 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Seventy-two people died in the fire at the tower block on 14 June 2017. Second Grenfell apology over Rees-Mogg comments 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Seventy-two people died when a fire ripped through the tower block on 14 June 2017. Rees-Mogg Grenfell comments 'insulting' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island’s steroidal skyline. Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The 1,000-page document follows the first phase of the inquiry, which looked at what happened on the night that 72 people died in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017. 'Systematic failures' in 999 Grenfell response 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z 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 Earlier this year, Abiy hinted at recasting the capital’s skyline – currently a hodgepodge of drab Soviet-style tower blocks and cheap Chinese new-builds – as something closer to the gleaming megalopolises of the Gulf. 'This is Dubai now': Nobel-winning PM's plan to transform Addis Ababa 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z However, the money is supposed to be recouped from the company which built the four tower blocks - and they are nowhere to be found. The families waiting for their homes to be blown up 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Laws depicts his tower blocks standing in the midst of fast-paced urban life and rapid gentrification. 'Future relics': the painter capturing the beauty of council houses 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z She was raised in Sarajevo, amid beat-up cars and dilapidated tower blocks. The Black Cube Chronicles: The Undercover Operative 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z I remember sitting in Shoreditch in the tower block living room of the father of Sharmeena Begum, the three girls’ best friend, who had travelled to Syria two months before them. From ‘our girls’ to ‘brides of Isis’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Dan Thompson, an artist, lives in the 1960s tower block Arlington House that overlooks the railway station and sees the crowds of visitors arriving in the town each day. What has art done for Margate? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z As a result, Mr. Tsang was with a half-dozen people at the protest on Tuesday in Tsuen Wan, a working-class neighborhood of residential tower blocks, when he was shot. Hong Kong Protests Led a Student to Activism, Then to the Point of a Gun 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z This is then transformed by the emergence of a power station, a number of tower blocks, roads and litter. TikTok videos spread climate change awareness 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z There was one architect from Hong Kong who was proposing four tower blocks and another who was proposing a high-density, low-rise scheme. 'It didn't matter if someone liked it or not': six leading architects revisit their first commission 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z For some, they were characterised by concrete carbuncles, tower blocks and social problems. How council housing changed lives in Scotland 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z At home she cooks on a wood-fired Russian stove that almost touches the ceiling, traditionally used throughout Russian homes for cooking and warmth before Soviet tower blocks and centralized heating dominated the landscape. Pass the lilac jam, please. Russian foodies explore tastes from the pre-Soviet past. 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Ahead of the second anniversary of the fire, campaigners projected messages on to tower blocks in Salford, Newcastle and London which they said were unsafe. Hundreds of buildings still have 'unsafe' cladding 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Grenfell United are projecting messages on to tower blocks in Manchester, Newcastle and London which they say are unsafe. Grenfell messages projected on tower blocks 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Seventy-two people died when a fire destroyed the tower block, in west London, on 14 June 2017. Grenfell council made £129m on property 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The report will follow the first phase of the inquiry, which looked at what happened on the night that 72 people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017. Grenfell Tower fire inquiry report delayed 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z This week, however, marks a new chapter for the beleaguered estate, with the announcement that authorities will finally tear down the distinctive sail-shaped tower blocks. Goodbye to Gomorrah: the end of Italy's most notorious housing estate 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Seventy two people were killed in the tower block fire on 14 June 2017. Grenfell inquiry 'amnesia' criticised 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Outside, workers set about rebuilding power and phone lines devastated by the Israeli bombardment, which also razed entire tower blocks, leaving rubble strewn across the ground. Gaza laments deadly start to Ramadan, amid funerals and debris 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Music is part of the streets, underground, clubs, pubs, houses, tower blocks and bedrooms of the UK capital. Which is the world's most musical city? 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z A year later, he started taking the photographs of tower blocks that would later form Architecture of Density. The man who found beauty in megacities 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z When finished, the corridors were narrower than planned, the tower blocks closer together and the proposed transport links and social spaces non-existent. Goodbye to Gomorrah: the end of Italy's most notorious housing estate 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z On the other side of London, in a tower block next to the Thames in Putney, I meet DCI Noel McHugh, the Metropolitan police detective who led the investigation. Murder on the allotment: 'She was everything that he wanted to be' 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Exhausted and freezing, they were saved by a security guard who gave them shelter in a tower block. Efe Obada: ‘I still have to face some of my demons internally, as a man’ | Donald McRae 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It had begun as an ordinary house fire but only 20 minutes after the first 999 call, flames were rising quickly up the outside wall of the tower block. Preventable deaths? The story of Grenfell Tower flat 113 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The tower block images look so abstract that it takes the viewer a second to realise what they are looking at. The man who found beauty in megacities 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z When combined with steel, it is the material that ensures our dams don’t burst, our tower blocks don’t fall, our roads don’t buckle and our electricity grid remains connected. Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z On Avenida Balboa, Panama City’s premier seafront avenue, the 50 story tower blocks form a near continuous wall of glass to the Pacific Ocean. Panama Papers ‘tightened the noose’ on offshore assets of Maduro’s inner circle 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z "Attack the Block," about a group of urban youth who must defend a tower block building against an alien invasion, had a rowdy energy and offbeat charm. Joe Cornish on the Brexit parallels of ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The residential tower block blaze in 2017 left 72 dead when flames spread through cladding fitted on the outside of the building. Sale of Grenfell cladding firm collapses 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Clusters of red-brick tower blocks are a common feature of Egypt’s urban sprawl, and house much of the country’s population of nearly 100 million people. Egyptian president calls for unified colour scheme for buildings 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z From the third floor of a residential tower block in the Chinese city of Yanji, two young women hurl their torn up, knotted bedsheets out of a window. The women who had to escape twice 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z "Stand on the ledge of a tower block." What is the truth behind an online 'suicide challenge'? 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z The story takes place over two days, in and around a public-housing complex known as the Stones Estate, which is close to the Wembley stadium and comprises four tower blocks. A Début Novel Captures a City on the Boil 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And the Daily Star reports that the tower block used in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses is being turned into upmarket flats. In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Police cars were seen outside the tower blocks that house the headquarters of Germany's biggest bank. Deutsche Bank raided over money laundering 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Coventry City Council is to rent a high-rise tower block for homeless people in a bid to tackle the rising cost of finding them accommodation. High rise to house city's homeless 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Seventy two people died as a result of the catastrophic blaze in the 24-storey tower block last year. Grenfell residents given conflicting advice 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Seventy-two people were killed in the west London tower block fire in June 2017. Here's what you need to know this morning 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z A total of 72 people were killed in the devastating blaze at the west London tower block in June 2017. Five arrests over Grenfell Tower bonfire 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Some 72 people were killed in the devastating blaze at the west London tower block in June 2017. Group burns effigy of Grenfell Tower 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Nearly six years later, in February 2005, two firefighters died in a blaze at a tower block in Stevenage, where residents had been told to "stay put". 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The model represents one bleak square mile of ruined scrubland and concrete tower blocks. Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z One room is full of synthesizers; the other has mid-century modern furniture and art by Scott King depicting tower blocks amid Technicolor waves. Neil Tennant: ‘Sometimes I think, where’s the art, the poetry in all this?’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z A notorious criminal who grew up in the tower blocks near Paris in the 1970s and 80s, Faïd became something of a celebrity in France in recent years, despite the violence of his crimes. French jailbreak gangster hid in burqa 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z This is because tower blocks are designed to confine the flames to the concrete box forming an individual flat. Five things Grenfell firefighters have told us 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Knowsley Heights was well known as an eyesore, and in the mid-1980s the Conservative government launched Estate Action - a scheme to improve living conditions in tower blocks. 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z "At 17 I had crack psychosis and jumped off the top of a tower block and survived. Not only did I survive, but I didn't break one bone. " Three in five Britons 'believe in miracles' 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Communicating the change to residents was also "not easily done" as there was no mechanism for contacting each flat in the west London tower block, he added. Grenfell Tower was 'unsafe to live in' 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Moses Ettienne, 48, allegedly claimed he was a resident in the tower block on the night the blaze left 72 people dead in June 2017. Man charged with Grenfell Tower fraud 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z She rented an apartment on the 10th floor of a tower block in Shinjuku, Tokyo, overlooking a large cemetery, and began to work on an elegy to Cornell in surreal collages. Yayoi Kusama: the world's favourite artist? 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z The stairwell of the tower block was effectively a chimney, allowing the flames to race up through the building. 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z He witnessed the tower block being consumed by flames from the window of his London flat and immediately committed himself to the relief effort. Mumford & Sons 'grapple with manhood' for the first time 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The book, called 'Together: Our Community Cookbook', includes 50 recipes by women whose community was affected by the tower block fire, which killed 71 people in June 2017. Meghan launches Grenfell charity cookbook 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The 24-storey tower block had been recently renovated prior to the fire, including changes to the gas pipes and the re-numbering of flats. Missing plans 'hampered Grenfell rescue' 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z The advice was in place until 02:47 BST - nearly two hours after the fire started at the west London tower block on 14 June last year. Firefighter backs Grenfell stay-put advice 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z On 14 June 2017, televisions across the country showed a west London tower block burn. 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z A fire ripped through the tower block in June 2017, leaving 72 people dead. Council worker charged with Grenfell fraud 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The tower block blaze left 72 people dead. Grenfell Tower fraudster pleads guilty 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z For a long time, the city’s approach was to raze such quarters and build brutally utilitarian tower blocks in their place, says Rieh Sun-young, an architecture professor at the University of Seoul. Why the mayor of Seoul sleeps in a shack 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The fire in the tower block in North Kensington in west London, in June 2017, claimed the lives of 72 people. Man charged with Grenfell Tower fraud 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z She had been speaking to a 999 operator for 40 minutes, remaining calm and following the advice to "stay put" in her tower block flat. 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The fire ripped through the tower block in June 2017, leaving 72 people dead. Man admits £81k Grenfell Tower fraud 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The drive for such offices is reminiscent of the British enthusiasm for residential tower blocks after the second world war. Open offices can lead to closed minds 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Cladding panels used on on the tower block burnt quickly and spread the fire, leading the government to suggest a ban on combustible materials being used on planned buildings over 18m high. Tower cladding ban 'does not go far enough' 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Ms Smith said her experience of working during the Lakanal House fire - the 2009 London tower block fire in which six people were killed - formed part of her decision to change strategy. Grenfell 'first time' stay-put was dropped 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The Fire Brigades Union called for a review of the "stay put" policy and for sprinklers to be fitted in all tower blocks. 'It's crazy. Why has it happened again?' 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The tower block fire in west London on 14 June, 2017, left 72 people dead and destroyed the lives of hundreds of others. Grenfell Tower: Global roots of fire victims 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Some people like them, of course, just as some like living in tower blocks. Open offices can lead to closed minds 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The municipal funds that paid for it built a neat, well-maintained facility, the sort that are dotted around the banlieues, a contrast to the unloved tower blocks that ring their fields. World Cup 2018: The Boys From the Banlieues 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Seventy-two people died as a result of a huge fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower - a 27-storey West London residential tower block. The terrible speed the Grenfell fire spread 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Twenty-four people died on the top floor of the tower block. What happened at Grenfell Tower? 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z "It was in this collaborative environment that my interest in the representation of cities really came into focus and I made the photograph of the tower block that became the cover." London's iconic album cover images 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In tearful tributes, families told of final phone calls with those trapped as the fire swept through and of frantic journeys to the low-income tower block in search of them. Emotional Tributes Open First Phase of Inquiry Into London’s Grenfell Fire 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Its marketing suggested the insulation was suitable for use with other cladding panels and for tower block refurbishment projects like Grenfell. Grenfell insulation 'never passed fire test' 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The disaster raised questions about the rich-poor divide in Britain, in part because it took place at a publicly owned tower block in one of London’s richest areas. Grenfell report to call for wholesale fire safety changes 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Seventy-one people died in the fire in the west London tower block last June. Grenfell review 'won't urge cladding ban' 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The tower block was photographed by Rut Blees Luxemburg in 1995, a few years after she arrived in the capital from her native Germany. London's iconic album cover images 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As opposed to the rectilinear tower blocks of the communist era, the library, though it matches them in height, is smooth and chamfered. Libraries that speak loudly 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z A man who died when a burning tower block collapsed in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, was only seconds away from being rescued, firefighters say. 'We were seconds away from saving him' 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Some 72 people died in the west London tower block fire on 14 June last year. Man charged with Grenfell-related fraud 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, the government announced a £400m operation to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks owned by councils and housing associations. Grenfell review 'won't urge cladding ban' 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In Glasgow, Scotland in October 2015, thousands gathered to watch as the six remaining tower blocks of the historic Red Road flats were razed to the ground. Silo demolition in Denmark goes wrong and crushes cultural centre 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Seventy-one people died in the London tower block fire in June 2017. PM reflects on Britain's 'dark moments' 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z A new campaign, Project84, aims to raise awareness and sees sculptures placed on the top of a London tower block. 'The wounds heal but you still have scars' 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The tower block fire in west London killed 71 people last June. Tributes to Grenfell victims to open inquiry 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The banners were driven through central London earlier this month on the eight-month anniversary of the tower block blaze. The real-life Three Billboards stunts 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Wednesday marked eight months since last year's 14 June fire at the 24-storey tower block, which killed 71 people. 'Three Billboards' stunt for Grenfell Tower 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z She lived on the 20th floor of the tower block with her mother, who also died in the blaze, and just months before her death secured her debut exhibition at the 57th Venice Biennale. Grenfell victim's art in new £5m gallery 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z British diplomats in Thailand's capital city will move to a modern tower block in 2019. UK sells Bangkok embassy for £420m 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Magistrates heard Hickling was involved in the search and recovery of bodies at the London tower block. Grenfell paramedic caught doing 116mph 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Before the storm, Glasgow's policy had been to demolish its city housing and move people to tower blocks or new schemes on the outer edge of the city. The day of Scotland's most deadly storm 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Seventy-one people were killed in the west London tower block fire in June. Police ask for £38m for Grenfell inquiry 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Many of the families evacuated after the fire that killed 71 people in the west London tower block in June are still living in temporary accommodation - either hotels or serviced flats, some without cooking facilities. Grenfell council apology over payment error 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z BBC Scotland spoke to one former tower block resident, Jim Leonard, who moved to a bungalow last year after nearly 20 years in Lodge Tower in the Flemington area of Motherwell. Council could demolish all tower blocks 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Labour's Jack Dromey asked why no money had been spent on sprinkler systems for tower blocks in Birmingham. Prime Minister's Questions: The verdict 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Holed up in an apartment on the seventh floor of a tower block in Sharjah, the family of five desperate Sri Lankans were racking up debts and disquiet at an alarming rate. The Gulf work trap that brought tragedy to an entire family 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z 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 The fire destroyed 151 homes, most in the tower block, but also a number of surrounding properties. Memorial tickets for Grenfell survivors 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z The council plans to hold a full consultation with all its tower block residents, starting in February. Council could demolish all tower blocks 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The tower block on the Seymour Hill housing estate is owned and operated by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. Fire at high-rise flats near Belfast 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z They were used heavily in the construction of tower blocks but were banned from the 1970s because of their toxic effect in humans and animals. A last refuge for European orcas 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z She will be given only no option of where to live, likely moved to a newly built tower block. The wrecking ball swings at Moscow - a photo essay 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Most were not for tower blocks, but smaller homes, offices and shops. Grenfell cladding on dozens of towers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z In Portales, Canada Building Systems opened a “state-of-the-art” tower block at 56 Zapata just this year by with a roof garden and solar panels. 6,000 complaints ... then the quake: the scandal behind Mexico City's 225 dead 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z He pulled his car over and realised the tower block was on fire. Fire at high-rise flats near Belfast 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z While filming we accompany her to a tower block to follow up on a neighbourhood dispute. 'I think I had something to offer' 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The website also shows the locations of the new replacement tower blocks – and the large area of land that will then become available for sale. The wrecking ball swings at Moscow - a photo essay 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z One aspect of the investigation will be the role of combustible aluminum cladding installed during a refurbishment to the 1970s tower block. London fire probe chief: Survivors feel ‘anger and betrayal’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the blaze questions were raised about the adequacy of regulations for tower blocks across the UK. Grenfell Tower fire inquiry to open 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z These responses covered about half of the UK's estimated 4,000 tower blocks. Grenfell fire chief calls for sprinklers 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z At least 80 people died in the tower block blaze in west London on 14 June. Jose Mourinho stars in Game4Grenfell charity match - BBC News 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z In another, he climbed a €24m disused tower block in the vein of skyscraper “roofers”. Parasite architecture: inside the self-built studio hanging under a bridge in Valencia 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z We were to sample them overlooking Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, upon which swam the reflected light of the city's tower blocks. This Is How It Feels to Eat 13-Year-Old Steak 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The Caribbean carnival, billed as Europe’s biggest street party, winds through west London streets near the apartment tower block that was gutted by a June blaze that killed at least 80 people. London’s Notting Hill Carnival honors tower fire victims 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The Caribbean carnival, billed as Europe’s biggest street party, winds through west London streets near the tower block gutted by a blaze in June that killed at least 80 people. London’s Notting Hill Carnival honors tower fire victims 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The fire in Grenfell Tower in west London in June - the most devastating tower block fire in British history - claimed the lives of at least 80 people. Grenfell Tower and Stephen Lawrence documentaries to air on BBC - BBC News 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The letter refers to a fire in August 2016 in Shepherds Court, a tower block in west London, which began in a faulty tumble dryer. Ministers 'must act on faulty white goods fire risk' - BBC News 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Paul Follows, a consulting structural engineer, said he found the revelation "quite shocking" bearing in mind the lessons learned about previous tower block fires that involved types of external cladding. London Fire Brigade advised on Grenfell refurbishment - BBC News 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z More than 200 firefighters attended the tower block at the time, rescuing 65 people. Grenfell Tower: 60 trauma counsellors brought in for firefighters - BBC News 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The remains of Yasin El Wahabi, 20, were found on the 21st floor of the west London tower block, Westminster Coroner's Court was told. Grenfell fire: 'Bubbly' victim Yasin El Wahabi named - BBC News 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The tower block fire on 14 June killed at least 80 people and made hundreds homeless. Grenfell Tower: Man denies fraud charge over 'lost family' - BBC News 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He said that he expected the demolition of the tower block would begin "towards the end of 2018". Grenfell Tower: Sixty blocks 'fail new fire test' - BBC News 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The tower block caught fire on 14 June. Grenfell Tower: Reasonable grounds for charges, police say - BBC News 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Kestrels used to look down from our two tower blocks. Legacy, what legacy? Five years on the London Olympic park battle still rages 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The senior officer said the tower block was "one of the most complex recovery operations we've seen". Grenfell Tower fire: Investigators bring in 9/11 experts - BBC News 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z At least 80 people are dead or missing after the tower block fire on 14 June. Grenfell Tower fire: New council leader heckled by public - BBC News 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z At least 80 people are believed to have been killed in the tower block fire in north Kensington on 14 June. Grenfell fire: McDonnell murder claim 'disgraceful' - Hammond - BBC News 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The disaster prompted the UK government to call for widespread testing of cladding samples from hundreds of tower blocks around the country. London's Deadly Grenfell Tower Fire: Building Material Now Leading Suspect 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z In Kent, three fire engines would be sent to a reported fire in a tower block, with no high ladder. London fire: Most services would have sent high ladder to Grenfell - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that high ladders, which could have potentially "prevented the spread" of tower block fire were sent automatically to the building in the past. Grenfell Tower: Five-year-old Isaac Paulos's funeral held - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z A high ladder, or "aerial", used to fight tower block fires was dispatched immediately to the site in North Kensington as recently as 2001. Grenfell fire: High ladder 'sent automatically' in past - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Phil Murphy watched the Grenfell disaster unfold on television from his flat on the eighth floor of a Manchester tower block. Is my tower block safe? - BBC News 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Much of the housing was low-rise, but he says it was thought logical to include a tower block, with shops and offices on a lower deck. Grenfell planner’s shock at burnt remains - BBC News 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Newsnight requested PDAs for tower block fires from all 52 fire services in the UK. London fire: Most services would have sent high ladder to Grenfell - BBC News 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z He is the chief architect of the Larne bonfire and is photographed, balancing on a ladder, hemmed in by a tower block of wooden pallets. Eleventh night bonfire builders - Build it high - BBC News 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z But these pubs – whether they’re 1930s-style redbrick structures with pitched roofs and large beer gardens, or forbidding cubes of wood and brick that squat in the shadow of tower blocks – are now at risk. 'Never drink in a flat-roofed pub': how the old joke became a reality 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z The room is linked to a dry riser which runs the full length of the tower block. Is my tower block safe? - BBC News 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Not sending a high ladder was standard procedure for the first response to a fire in a tower block, according to a spokeswoman for the London Fire Brigade. Ladders Came Up Short, and Cost Lives, in London Blaze, Firefighters Say 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Grenfell families are - understandably - turning down homes in older tower blocks. Why is it taking so long to rehouse the Grenfell survivors? - BBC News 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Thousands of homes in tower blocks across Scotland do not have potentially life-saving sprinkler systems, a BBC Scotland investigation has found. No sprinklers in 300 Scottish tower blocks - BBC News 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Police say 80 people are currently presumed dead after the fire at the west London tower block on 14 June. Adele pays tribute to Grenfell victims at Wembley Stadium show - BBC News 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The 14 June fire destroyed 151 homes, most in the tower block, but also a number of surrounding properties. No final Grenfell death toll 'this year' - BBC News 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Several days after the fire, Olu - who is staying with his family at Westminster and Chelsea Hospital - is surprisingly keen to return to the west London tower block. The Grenfell survivor rebuilding his life, two weeks on - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Councils across the country are carrying out FRAs following the tower block fire, however Prof Dix said this was "pointless" as the same checking system had failed twice - in Lakanal and Grenfell. London fire: Fire safety risk inspections pointless, says expert - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z But there is no obligation on councils or social landlords to fit the systems in older tower blocks. No sprinklers in 300 Scottish tower blocks - BBC News 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Secondly, how, despite that, you still turn a corner from a modern tower block and find a corner of old Hong Kong waiting to swallow you up. Hong Kong's Last Colonial Governor Remembers the Handover 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, Camden Council evacuated 650 people from four tower blocks in Swiss Cottage area, after London Fire Brigade raised concerns about cladding, gas pipe insulation, and fire doors. John McDonnell: Grenfell victims 'murdered by political decisions' - BBC News 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The new regulations were introduced following a fatal fire in a Scottish tower block in 1999. How 1999 Scottish tower block fire led to regulation change - BBC News 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z FRAs are carried out on all types of buildings such as hospitals and schools, not just tower blocks. London fire: Fire safety risk inspections pointless, says expert - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z He told BBC Scotland he would like to see sprinklers installed in the homes of vulnerable people, which included tower blocks. No sprinklers in 300 Scottish tower blocks - BBC News 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z One tower block resident in West Dunbartonshire said he welcomed news that building standards and conditions would be subject to further scrutiny. Holyrood committee to review Scottish tower block safety - BBC News 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z In Scotland, Holyrood is going to hold its own investigation into the safety of tower blocks, expanding an ongoing inquiry into housing and building regulations. John McDonnell: Grenfell victims 'murdered by political decisions' - BBC News 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The number rose from 34 tower blocks across 17 local authorities. Sixty towers across England found to have unsafe cladding 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z But, Prof Dix said people in tower blocks with a high risk should not panic as he did not trust the reliability of the reports. London fire: Fire safety risk inspections pointless, says expert - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Of those which replied to our request, only South Ayrshire Council said it had fitted the system into flats in its tower blocks. No sprinklers in 300 Scottish tower blocks - BBC News 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z British officials are conducting tests on some 600 high-rise buildings across England after fire ravaged the Grenfell tower block in west London on June 14, prompting public anger over the Conservative government's budget cuts. Sixty high-rise buildings fail safety tests after London fire: UK government 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Cladding from as many as 600 tower blocks across England is now being tested for safety. John McDonnell: Grenfell victims 'murdered by political decisions' - BBC News 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Are you a resident in one of the affected tower blocks on the Chalcots estate? London tower block residents 'must leave' says council - BBC News 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z It shows there are 16 council-run tower blocks with a high-risk rating, which means the building would not be considered able to contain the spread of a fire. London fire: Fire safety risk inspections pointless, says expert - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z “In the world’s fifth-largest economy, this is appalling,” added Mr. Mekonen, a resident of the Bray tower block who is originally from Ethiopia. ‘This Is Appalling’: Evacuated London Residents Try to Cope 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Residents of 650 flats in tower blocks on an estate in the Swiss Cottage area were evacuated late on Friday. Camden flats: Council 'tried to prevent' tower closure - BBC News 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z With five tower blocks being evacuated, the streets were teeming with neighbours, children, and cameramen. Camden flats: Confusion as evacuation begins - BBC News 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It said in a statement: "Where cladding fails the test, this will not necessarily mean moving residents from tower blocks. " London tower block residents 'must leave' says council - BBC News 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Tower Hamlets has eight tower blocks which have been assessed to have a substantial fire risk. London fire: Fire safety risk inspections pointless, says expert - BBC News 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z On Thursday, there was confusion about the number of tower blocks thought to have hazardous cladding similar to Grenfell Tower’s. ‘This Is Appalling’: Evacuated London Residents Try to Cope 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Camden Council says it will remove external thermal cladding from five tower blocks on the Chalcots estate. Camden flats: Council 'tried to prevent' tower closure - BBC News 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Residents of three Plymouth tower blocks have been speaking to the BBC after learning the cladding on the structures has been given the lowest safety rating. Grenfell fire: 'Safety comes first' for Plymouth tower block dwellers - BBC News 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Residents and survivors of the tower block also appear as part of a choir led by Gareth Malone. Simon Cowell's Grenfell single tops UK chart - BBC News 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z British Prime Minister Theresa May said that as a precaution, the cladding in similar tower blocks was being tested. World Digest: June 22, 2017 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z So far, samples from 27 tower blocks in 15 areas in England have shown that the cladding, or aluminum facade, wrapped around the buildings is unsafe, the government said. ‘This Is Appalling’: Evacuated London Residents Try to Cope 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Do you live in one of the affected tower blocks on the Chalcots estate in Camden Council? Camden flats: Council 'tried to prevent' tower closure - BBC News 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z For this reason, says Dr Galea, many older British tower blocks were not constructed with building-wide fire alarms, or intercom systems that enable firefighters to broadcast instructions to residents. Tall buildings are becoming more common. They need not be dangerous 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z May encouraged the owners, both public and private, of tower blocks around the country to quickly forward samples of any similar material for testing. 600 Buildings May Have Similar Flammable Panels to Grenfell Tower 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “The Grenfell Tower residents and north Kensington community deserve answers, and thousands and thousands of people living in tower blocks around the country need very urgent reassurance.” Six hundred high-rises in England thought to have flammable cladding 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Downing Street at first suggested that 600 tower blocks, and thousands of families, were at risk — though that proved to be the total number of high-rise homes with any form of cladding. ‘This Is Appalling’: Evacuated London Residents Try to Cope 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z On the streets of Kensington yesterday were people with no connection to the tower block who see this as an opportunity to cause trouble. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The tower block is only a few kilometers away from the Queen's Club in West London. New opponent for Murray as Bedene withdraws 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z In the leaked letters, experts warn that those living in tower blocks like Grenfell Tower were "at risk". Four ministers were warned about tower block fire risks - BBC News 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z London police said 79 people were dead or missing presumed dead after a devastating tower block blaze last week. Presumed death toll in London tower blaze rises to 79 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Raabia, Shabnum and Ammna filled a van with shower gel, shampoo, nappies and sanitary towels through donations from people in Slough, and distrusted he supplies to community centres in the area near the tower block. London fire: The volunteers who flocked from near and far to help - BBC News 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The immediate requirements following this calamity are to rehouse the survivors and to ensure there are not other tower blocks at similar risk. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z A fire caused by a faulty tumble drier at a social housing tower block, in nearby Shepherd’s Bush raised concerns about the flammability of modern construction materials as recently as last August. Grenfell Tower: the chronicle of a tragedy foretold 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The BBC spoke to Mr Islam within view of the charred tower block, just outside the cordon. London fire: Relative cites 'lack of co-ordination' in response - BBC News 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Capturing the country's mood, Corbyn said: "Every single person living in a tower block will be terrified." The Tower Fire in London Is Being Called Theresa May's Hurricane Katrina Moment 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z "Hundreds of thousands of people in our country live in very high-rise tower blocks," Corbyn said. London fire death toll climbs to 30, but authorities say it's likely to go higher 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Nor is there anything wrong about trying to make tower blocks look attractive, which the cladding recently erected around Grenfell Tower was partly intended to achieve. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Kirkham also recommended that the government encourage councils to retrofit sprinklers in tower blocks. Grenfell Tower: the chronicle of a tragedy foretold 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Nusul Islam's uncle, aunt and three cousins were on the 17th floor when the tower block caught fire early on Wednesday morning. London fire: Relative cites 'lack of co-ordination' in response - BBC News 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The Prime Minister is going to visit the injured from the tower block fire in hospital this morning. Grenfell Tower fire: Theresa May to visit victims in hospital while Queen visits scene – latest updates 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Some of these issues were raised in a report following a fatal fire at a tower block in 2009 in Camberwell, in which six people were killed. London fire: A tale of two tower blocks - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z In its latest statement, it offered its "sincere and heartfelt condolences" to those affected and said its immediate concern and focus was working with the council to assist the residents of the tower block. London fire: Tower victims 'may never be identified' - BBC News 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z But this latest alarm bell – clearly ringing – did not stop the trend for cladding the outside of Britain’s ageing tower blocks. Grenfell Tower: the chronicle of a tragedy foretold 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But Khan said that there were critical concerns about a number of other tower blocks in the British capital that were refurbished in a similar fashion. After a tragedy many saw as preventable, London fire survivors vent their anger 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z He said hundreds of thousands of people living in similar tower blocks throughout Britain will be “frightened, traumatized and very, very worried” until more is known about how the blaze proved so deadly. London high-rise fire: Cladding may have helped spread blaze 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In light of concerns about the safety of other tower blocks that have been similarly refurbished the inquiry needs to produce an interim report by the end of this summer at the latest. London fire: Theresa May orders public inquiry into Grenfell tower blaze – latest updates 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Rescuers say they do not expect to find anyone else alive inside the tower block in north Kensington following Wednesday's catastrophic blaze. London fire: Tower block blaze aftermath in pictures - BBC News 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Put simply, small-scale laboratory tests may not be able to reproduce the true effects of a blaze at a tower block. Grenfell Tower: the chronicle of a tragedy foretold 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z The west London tower block was refurbished at a cost of almost £9m. London fire: Grenfell Tower cladding 'linked to other fires' - BBC News 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z There is no legal requirement for local authorities to retrofit sprinklers to tower blocks. London fire: Six questions for the investigation - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Checks are to be carried out on tower blocks going through similar refurbishment to Grenfell Tower, policing and fire minister Nick Hurd has said. Labour demands answers over Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z He also said the system of fire alarms in tower blocks was not exactly as might be assumed. London fire: Why are people told to 'stay put'? - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z London Mayor Sadiq Khan says questions need to be answered about tower blocks around the city following a devastating fire. The Latest: Expert: Likely ‘multiple issues’ at London block 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In a further blog posting in November 2016, the action group stated it believed "only a catastrophic event" would bring an end to the dangerous living conditions at the tower block. Concerns raised about Grenfell Tower 'for years' - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z A huge fire has engulfed a tower block in west London, having broken out in the early hours of Wednesday, leaving several people dead. London tower block fire: In pictures - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Labour politicians are calling for answers from the government over the deadly fire that has ripped through a West London tower block. Labour demands answers over Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The tower block is near Westfield shopping centre in White City and the A40 - a major route for traffic entering and leaving the west of London. London fire: What we know so far - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Cotton said she did not want to speculate about the cause of the fire or how it spread so rapidly to engulf the whole tower block. The Latest: Expert: Likely ‘multiple issues’ at London block 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z But residents warned the tower block remained a fire risk. Concerns raised about Grenfell Tower 'for years' - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z According to witnesses, the fire appeared to take hold of the building in one corner before engulfing the tower block. London tower block fire: In pictures - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z She told BBC Radio 4's the World At One programme: "Councils want to fit sprinklers in their tower blocks, but it comes down to money. "The government has been cutting the money to councils. Labour demands answers over Grenfell Tower fire tragedy - BBC News 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Forty fire engines and 200 firefighters are battling the blaze at the Lancaster West Estate tower block, a 24-storey building in Latimer Road in White City. Grenfell Tower: fears of people trapped as major fire engulfs London apartment block - latest 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Many feared they would be sent to remote tower blocks - anthills, in anonymous suburbs. Distress as Moscow home demolitions to go ahead - BBC News 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z These modest, worn spaces are often the only sports ground available to the thousands of children, often black and other minorities, who live in the surrounding tower blocks. Premier League Proving Grounds 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z He wanted to move in to the apartment in a tower block in the suburb of Blackley for two months. Manchester attack: 'Abedi's flat smelled of chemicals' - BBC News 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z A soft-spoken man working from a nondescript office in a Paris tower block, he looks and sounds very different from Alain Soral. Is France's online far right a threat to democracy? - BBC News 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z For that scheme, the city contracted private developers, who built new tower blocks, set aside 30% of the apartments to resettle residents of the old buildings, and sold the rest. Moscow's big move: is this the biggest urban demolition project ever? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Dozens of tower blocks were under construction but, aside from builders, there was hardly a soul to be seen. China goes west: a ghost city in the sand comes to life 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Loud bangs and bright flashes lit up the tower blocks as Chinese-made fireworks — illegal but widely available in Iran — went up in the air. Fireworks Offer an Illicit Thrill Ahead of Iranian New Year 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z I imagine I’d be surviving on meagre benefits in a tower block, most likely stoned and angry at a world that robbed me of opportunity at the age of 17. A moment that changed me: having an abortion, aged 17 | Tiff Stevenson 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z One machine awaiting repair caught fire in London last August, causing a blaze in a tower block, which took 120 firefighters to bring it under control. Owners told not to use dangerous tumble dryers after all - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z For decades, tower blocks typically comprised social or affordable housing in crowded cities or on new estates. 'The building creaks and sways': life in a skyscraper 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet a machine awaiting a repair caused a huge tower block fire in west London in August, leaving families homeless and requiring 120 firefighters to bring it under control. Hotpoint and Indesit tumble dryer fires prompt legal move - BBC News 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Many tourists are a part of China’s rapidly growing middle class, many of whom live in anonymous concrete tower blocks in huge cities, he said. British Villagers Are Baffled by Flocking Chinese Tourists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z On one occasion earlier this year, a machine, awaiting a repair, caused a huge tower block fire in west London which left families homeless and needed 120 firefighters to bring under control. 'Dangerous wait' with fire-risk dryers - BBC News 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Today, all that is left is a giant hulk of the abandoned reactor – the same model as the one that melted down in Chernobyl – and the nearby “Nuclear City”, a community of Soviet-style tower blocks. Fidel Castro's last journey maps story of leader's triumphs and shortcomings 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The track is a splash of vibrant green in an ocean of concrete grey and smog brown; the city butting up against the perimeter fence, endless tower blocks filling the skyline. Brazilian GP: Will Nico Rosberg join the list of world championship winners in Brazil? 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z It was recently revealed that a tower block fire in Shepherds Bush in August was caused by a faulty tumble dryer. London 'white goods' fires cost £118m in five years - BBC News 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Dramatic proof was provided this summer when one machine, awaiting a repair, caused a huge tower block fire which left families homeless and needed 120 firefighters to bring under control. Truth, fires and tumble dryers: Are our home appliances safe? - BBC News 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z They rest in overcrowded, windowless rooms or on the verandah, enjoying the few rays of sun that pierce the wall of tower blocks surrounding their small, derelict building. 'Regeneration should be for all': will change in Johannesburg benefit its poorest residents? 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z I had a few minutes to capture the picture showing the church, which would most probably have been the tallest building in the area, contrasted with the looming modern tower blocks. ‘Concrete can be beautiful’: readers' modernist American architecture photos 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z "Outside the tower blocks you would see men playing cards, just like in villages," Mr Guilluy says. Go-getters in the ghettos: The bright side of France's migrant suburbs - BBC News 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z At least 120 firefighters are tackling a fire in a tower block in west London. Fire in Shepherd's Bush tower block - BBC News 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Police are treating the deaths of a man and a woman in a tower block in Aberdeen as a double murder. Murder inquiry after three deaths at Aberdeen tower block - BBC News 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Concentrated in the tower blocks that fill the steep inland valleys a short drive from the coast, the neighbourhoods supply a share of ready young minds on which local jihadist recruiters prey. Why Nice was an unsurprising location for a terrorist attack 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z "Pure Island: a neighborhood born ready-made," reads the glitzy brochure for the 31 tower blocks built for $880 million to house athletes for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next month. Rio risks empty Olympic legacy as real estate stalls 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Khalfallah was born in France, growing up in a tall tower block on the north side of Nice. Prone to Bizarre Acts of Anger, Nice Attacker Showed Signs of Volatility Early On 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z I met him in the shadow of Astral, Planet, and Solar Houses, the 1960s brutalist tower blocks that loom over Sunderland's city centre. Sunderland on Brexit: 'I'm not worried about what's coming' - BBC News 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Special forces stormed the last of the protesters’ footholds: an empty tower block, a hospital close by, and finally the mosque and its courtyard. Generation revolution: how Egypt’s military state betrayed its youth | Rachel Aspden 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z In response to the growing overcrowding crisis, councils demolished cramped back-to-backs and built upwards instead - creating dozens of tower blocks. England in 1966: Racism and ignorance in the Midlands - BBC News 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Manzoni was keen to tackle Birmingham’s slums, and although his diagnosis was correct, his remedy – huge numbers of tower blocks – was not. The story of cities: the tales we missed 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It immediately began putting up 10 to 15-storey tower blocks, adding more than 50,000 units of housing to the city within the first five years of its existence. Story of cities #27: Singapore – the most meticulously planned city in the world 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Mrs Campbell's mother was among the first residents who moved into one of two tower blocks of flats. #towerlives: Betty Campbell's fight for childhood dream - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z When roads were unpaved and buildings lacked lifts, brawn was the only way to move goods up and down the steep hills and into tower blocks. Bang bang, I hit the ground 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In the early hours of the morning he left the club and walked home to Nelson House, one of two tower blocks of flats in the area's Loudoun Square. #towerlives: Cardiff Three Tony Paris' freedom fight - BBC News 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z He still lives in the area in a high-rise council tower block of flats, built on the bulldozed rubble of his childhood home. #towerlives: Rise of towers and fall of Tiger Bay - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Outside of the major cities, particularly in the north, there are numerous empty tower blocks, even empty towns. China's overheated property market - BBC News 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Nearby a group of boys play football in a scruffy precinct in the shadow of a rundown tower block. Is Coventry about to have a moment of glory? - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Pyongyang, the showcase capital, is bleak and lined with pastel-painted tower blocks with red flowerpots in the windows. Yet another American has been detained in North Korea. So why do they go? | Monisha Rajesh 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Europe's biggest emergency disaster drill is taking place in London - simulating a tower block collapsing into a station. Inside Europe's biggest emergency disaster drill - BBC News 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In a BBC Wales interview in 1982 the then Lord Mayor of Cardiff Philip Dunleavy described the building of the tower blocks as "a disaster" and one which Cardiff would not repeat. #towerlives: Rise of towers and fall of Tiger Bay - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Firefighters, police officers and ambulance staff are facing a scenario based around a tower block collapsing on to Waterloo tube station in London. Thousands take part in Europe's biggest disaster training exercise - BBC News 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z As they await the outcome of their case, thousands of Pakistani asylum seekers set up temporary home in dingy rooms in a network of tower blocks on the outskirts of Bangkok. The Christians held in Thailand after fleeing Pakistan - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The double-digit growth is obvious from the building sites and the tower blocks rising up on every corner in the capital Addis Ababa. The drought that broke world's fastest growing economy - BBC News 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z “These tower blocks were labyrinthine,” says photographer and film-maker Simon Wheatley, who spent more than a decade documenting the lives of grime musicians. From Berlin's warehouses to London's estates: how cities shape music scenes 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z As well as toy houses, they purchase plastic or wood tower blocks with fake architectural blueprints and mini-ownership documents. Bolivians celebrate growing economy as they make wishes at Alacitas festival 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Their first customer was the owner of Centre Point, the office tower block at the eastern end of London's Oxford Street, and others soon followed suit. The takeaway worker who set up a fast-growing IT firm - BBC News 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Many now associate large tower blocks with social problems, although they were intended by architects and planners to improve the way people lived. What makes estates 'brutal'? - BBC News 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Only the neighbouring tower blocks and the occasional plane approaching nearby Tegel airport remind you that you're in the centre of Germany's huge capital. Living the good life in Berlin's allotments - but for how long? - BBC News 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Another favourite on mugs and tea towels is Balfron Tower, a council tower block about to be sold to wealthy investors for its iconic quality. Keep Calm and Carry On – the sinister message behind the slogan that seduced the nation 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The eight buildings include a 33-storey grey tower block on the edge of Hyde Park, right in the midst of some of the most expensive properties in London. When concrete buildings drive people mad - BBC News 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z JR’s canvases are now tower blocks, whole buildings, entire streets. JR: ‘I realised I was giving people a voice’ 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z A controlled explosion was intended to bring down the six remaining tower blocks. Exclusion zone lifted after Red Road flats demolition - BBC News 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z Residents of the tower blocks surrounding the stadium were told to stay inside their apartments and warned not to let strangers into the building. Serbia Wins in Albania Amid Heavy Security 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But he fears that independent shops will be killed off by property development creep, most recently illustrated by Boris Johnson’s decision to intervene in the plans for seven luxury tower blocks abutting Brick Lane. Brick Lane – the melting pot of culture 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Well, here's an example of a tower block that took just 19 days to build: Cement and pig consumption reveal China's huge changes - BBC News 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Within three months of winning a second term, the mayor changed building codes in the Olympic Park area, raising the maximum height of tower blocks from 12 to 18 floors. The Rio property developer hoping for a $1bn Olympic legacy of his own 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In a tower block several miles from his foster home, Faisal is making a bed on the floor of a friend's flat. The young people sent back to Afghanistan - BBC News 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Concerns were raised over the proposed 15-storey Lumina tower block in Birmingham and a 27-storey building in Manchester, both of which gained planning permission last year. The problem with the skyscraper wind effect - BBC News 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Hurdles were replaced by high rise tower blocks and a housing estate, though the parade ring survives as a circular pathway around a green. Lost racecourses: How UK housing boom killed city venues - BBC News 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In one of the sheikh's many Doha tower blocks what used to be a hotel parking lot is now given over to hundreds of fine carpets, mostly antique Persians. Welcome to the falcon hospital of Qatar - BBC News 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z There will be money, however, for new roads and tower blocks. Hippie-Era Kathmandu Got Destroyed in the Quake 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The haul was found after firefighters were called to deal with a rubbish chute fire at a Muirhouse tower block. Man jailed after bomb-making equipment found in Edinburgh flat 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Famous for its soaring tower blocks, Ballymun was often seen as the jewel in the crown of failed government social housing experiments before it got a complete overhaul in the mid-to-late 2000s. Nine Irish Photographers You Need to Follow 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Images of every tower block built in the UK are to be catalogued in a fully searchable digital archive. Archive to record every tower block 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z |
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