A tower block, high-rise, apartment tower, residential tower, apartment block, block of flats, or office tower is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise...
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On 14 June 2017, a high-rise fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London, at 00:54 BST and burned for...
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Tower Block is a 2012 British thriller film directed by James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson as their directorial debut, and written by James Moran. The film...
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Tower blocks are high-rise buildings for residential use. These blocks began to be built in Great Britain after the Second World War. The first residential...
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Trellick Tower is a Grade II* listed tower block on the Cheltenham Estate in North Kensington, London. Opened in 1972, it was commissioned by the Greater...
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Housing in Glasgow (redirect from Glasgow tower blocks)
in the UK, Glasgow witnessed the construction of high-rise housing in tower blocks in the 1960s, intended to replace the decaying tenement buildings originally...
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Block Tower is a (12,215-foot (3,723 m)) mountain located in the southern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Block Tower is on the west side...
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Lakanal House fire (redirect from 2009 London tower block fire)
The Lakanal House fire occurred in a tower block on 3 July 2009 in Camberwell, London. Six people were killed, and at least twenty injured, when a high-rise...
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but is killed in turn by Hi-Hatz. The gang try to flee to Wyndham Tower, a tower block, but are attacked outside by the aliens; Biggz is forced to hide...
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Ballymun Flats (redirect from Ballymun tower blocks)
flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7 fifteen-storey...
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