Decaying villages dot dusty roads; grey apartment blocks fill sleepy cities.
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Think towering apartment blocks, prefabricated concrete panels, and loads of gray.
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It depicts the implosion of buildings and apartment blocks in Beirut.
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Drab Soviet apartment blocks cram a town without parks, lawns, or trees.
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Residents often protest when owners of their apartment blocks raise parking prices.
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Opponents also worry that the new apartment blocks will be poorly constructed.
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There are construction sites, dusty fenced-in clearings, and dismal apartment blocks.
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Upscale apartment blocks and opulent mansions abut hillside slums and urban blight.
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Artillery rained down on the town, hitting houses, schools and apartment blocks.
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Given it's targeting apartment blocks, Latch looks most similar to German startup Kiwi.
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Many of the views are dominated by high-rise hotels and apartment blocks.
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The room is pink, and through the window we can see apartment blocks.
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These stores occupy the street-level floors of apartment blocks sprouting all over.
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For now, he wants to focus on reducing the number of apartment blocks built.
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Elsewhere in Washington, old churches have been flattened or developed to make apartment blocks.
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In the back yards of apartment blocks, residents can take cover in storage cellars.
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Yet these, too, are under pressure as generic luxury apartment blocks proliferate, transforming Berlin.
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Around the world, apartment blocks are springing up in cities in lieu of older houses.
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Skeletons of future apartment blocks loom; the Thai government is building a new international airport.
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Most live in charmless low-rise apartment blocks that arch across Rio's north and west.
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The militants finally left after positioning themselves on the rooftops of three-storey apartment blocks.
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Upscale apartment blocks and gated communities of multimillion-dollar villas have replaced the wild brush.
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Houses, apartment blocks and public buildings were flattened by air strikes or holed by shellfire.
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Modern apartment blocks in Germany were contrasted with slum photography from the Lower East Side.
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He ordered the tearing down of 1,722 Soviet apartment blocks in favour of something glassier.
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The newcomers live on building sites, or in windowless rooms in the basements of apartment blocks.
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Floors are built on top of existing structures, creating apartment blocks up to eight storeys high.
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With old factories marked for demolition, new apartment blocks, shopping complexes and roads are being built.
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Extensive building of highways, apartment blocks and shopping malls has transformed the appearance of the city.
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It is a settlement of just 1,500 people who mostly live in Soviet-era apartment blocks.
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Apartment blocks, offices, a school and a textile factory were among the structures that were destroyed.
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These apartment blocks at the foot of Luossavaara Mountain in Kiruna lie outside the deformation zone.
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Behind the lines of tightly packed houses and apartment blocks are large fields divided into strips.
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The government moved most of these farmers to apartment blocks specially prepared for them in Kyiv.
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The orange grove next to Ms Mahfouz's home was chopped down to make way for apartment blocks.
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After the original Dons left, their stadium, Plough Lane, was bulldozed to make room for apartment blocks.
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Concrete apartment blocks are painted with murals celebrating miners, and the only advertising billboards are for cement.
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The central government made Harbin an industrial base and built large factories and Soviet-style apartment blocks.
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And overseas buyers will still be able to make limited investments in large apartment blocks and hotels.
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Recently three new real estate companies bought apartment blocks here and one also acquired the shopping center.
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Lammy said the condition in many apartment blocks was "unacceptable," and called for them to be demolished.
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Half an hour into my first playthrough, the bugs had destroyed so many apartment blocks that I lost.
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House prices have more than doubled since then, despite a flood of new apartment blocks and housing estates.
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Shopping malls, petrol stations and apartment blocks were levelled; bulldozers cut through slums, leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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The pastel-colored apartment blocks show marks of heavy fighting and the sound of gunfire was audible nearby.
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State television showed empty streets lined with apartment blocks smashed by air strikes in the al-Ansari district.
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He remembers the dread of carrying the day's receipts through the crime-ridden apartment blocks to the bank.
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The towns along the road were gritty — a mixture of old wooden houses and Soviet-style apartment blocks.
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The Awwal family lives and works in Zeytinburnu, an industrial district of multi-storey concrete apartment blocks in Istanbul.
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Now it is clearing these away; a boardwalk, jetties, park facilities and apartment blocks with river views are coming.
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HUNDREDS of new apartment blocks are rising from the rubble of Nusaybin, a city in Turkey's Kurdish south-east.
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That aesthetic involves pastel-coloured apartment blocks, pretty flower-shaped streetlights and pleasant parks kept impeccably clean by residents.
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Large numbers of peasants were brought there overnight and relocated to apartment blocks, transporting their chickens to their balconies.
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In Lagos, expat tenants of new apartment blocks are typically expected to pay an entire year's rent in advance.
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And on the county's outskirts, apartment blocks stand empty, totems to the debt that looms over China's financial system.
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In the capital, San Juan, many apartment blocks are still black at night apart from candles flickering in windows.
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The station's diversity reflects the neighbourhood, where a large foreign migrant population lives in mostly run-down apartment blocks.
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The museum sits in the newly developed Silo District at the Waterfront, which boasts apartment blocks, offices and shops.
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The apartment blocks are designed to command views from a distance; the glassed-in libraries, to command the street.
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Some apartment blocks have forbid delivery drivers from entering, forcing them to drop off their parcels outside building gates.
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Snapshot: Above, Israeli bulldozers tearing down one of 10 Palestinian apartment blocks scheduled for demolition in the West Bank.
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The long construction boom has produced dozens of ghost cities – McMahon counts 50 in all – filled with empty apartment blocks.
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The old structures were replaced with Soviet-style apartment blocks, wide boulevards, and imposing halls that embodied the socialist spirit.
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Many apartment blocks were built before car ownership became common, so neighbourhoods have limited space to build places to park.
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His home is in one of the apartment blocks that wall in the landscape like the backdrop of a stage.
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Mr. Halim's new gray concrete building, in the midst of low-rise brick apartment blocks, is striped with ribbon windows.
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Instead, they tend to feature concrete walls and cheap metal fittings, and they are generally in large, uninspired apartment blocks.
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Most of its students are Cantonese-speaking locals, some of whom live nearby with their parents in dense apartment blocks.
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The narrow streets are lined with apartment blocks and bungalows, just wide enough for a single car, or a Segway.
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During a visit to St Petersburg in January 2018, CNN saw laborers living in shabby living quarters, building apartment blocks.
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It is integrated into the neighborhood, just around the corner from a driving school, near leafy streets and apartment blocks.
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With a developer, Brillia, it has already razed 23 five-storey apartment blocks and put up seven towers in their place.
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As a result, residents in the east say apartment blocks that once housed five families now house as many as 20.
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John Hamon's face has been smiling down at Parisians from apartment blocks, office buildings, and grands palais for nearly two decades.
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Supporters of the plan say that the affected buildings are shabby prefabricated apartment blocks, meant as temporary shelter in Soviet times.
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Large open fires in aging apartment blocks are frowned upon because there is insufficient water to douse flames if they spread.
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Its reconstruction took a different form: the sterile apartment blocks that became emblematic of the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.
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Today, the skyline is dominated by tall, flashy edifices as dozens of construction companies build towering apartment blocks for wealthy buyers.
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But the authorities have since blamed an even greater danger to the average Russian: crumbling infrastructure, including Soviet-era apartment blocks.
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There, he found construction jobs for about $234 a day, squatting in half-finished apartment blocks while struggling to evade police.
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There, he found construction jobs for about $234 a day, squatting in half-finished apartment blocks while struggling to evade police.
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Many of the city's historic sites are neglected and unmarked, or they have been bulldozed to make way for apartment blocks.
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It is built on steep hills, and the five-storey apartment blocks where many of the residents live do not have lifts.
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Apartment blocks in pastel shades have sprung up in four new towns and scores of suburbs across the north of the country.
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The concrete apartment blocks of formerly communist Eastern Europe evoke both nostalgia and legacies of suffering; now their future is in question.
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The Americans So Martha Hanson is practically on a plane to Moscow, headed to a life of borscht and drab apartment blocks.
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Trees sprout from the rusted roofs of apartment blocks in the ghost town of Prypyat, built to house Chernobyl power plant workers.
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Property companies have been buying land in government sales or in collective sales, where they purchase existing apartment blocks for re-building.
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The healthcare system is lacking, the apartment blocks are surrounded by ripped-up concrete, unending machinery noise and mounds of raw earth.
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Squat, five-story banks of numbing gray Soviet apartment blocks gave way to cheerfully colored, 10-story buildings constructed around appealing playgrounds.
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These codes could be used to notify people in buildings about a person's recent movements, such as within office or apartment blocks.
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In the following weeks, bombings of apartment blocks across Russia kill more than 300 people, in attacks Putin blames on Chechen militants.
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Since then, Maduro has promised to place enormous water tanks on the roofs of houses and apartment blocks to alleviate the problem.
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Its 12 square miles feature rows of Haussmann-style apartment blocks, neoclassical statues, and a third-scale model of, yes, the Eiffel Tower.
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More than 1,000 border trading companies set up shop in office complexes overlooking the river, while developers flocked to build new apartment blocks.
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Shot-up storefronts and apartment blocks, carcasses of burnt-out armored vehicles and signs marking minefields now define the cityscape along the sea.
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But perhaps most tellingly, the members of the group post pictures of the luxury apartment blocks that have now replaced their old haunts.
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After World War II, the desperate need for housing in Germany led to large, soulless apartment blocks that created ethnic and economic ghettos.
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But while newer apartment blocks and helipad-crowned skyscrapers have been constructed to withstand earthquakes, many older buildings remain at risk, said experts.
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"Why not demolish all Western-style apartment blocks…so as not to toady to foreign powers?" wrote one contributor to an online forum.
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With the two devices Schoenfelder says it can serve a greater variety of buildings — including large commercial offices and multi-occupancy apartment blocks.
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Whether pencil skyscrapers or squat apartment blocks, the buildings are shaped by the same invisible force: the U.S.'s first city zoning code.
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The idealistic but impoverished artists here, many of them young graduates from Beijing's elite art schools, work and live in these apartment blocks.
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So the Tamrazyans accepted an invitation to use an apartment in Bethel Church, a red brick building nestled among low-rise apartment blocks.
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The video concludes with a sequence of demolitions of newly built apartment blocks, which were cleared to make way for further upscale development.
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A wave of new apartment blocks, craft breweries and espresso shops radiating from downtown has pushed out poor residents, many of them black.
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For almost a year, Syrian government helicopters had been lobbing barrels filled with shrapnel and TNT onto markets, apartment blocks, schools, and hospitals.
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The viewer sees the shiny white apartment blocks of a Jewish suburb of Jerusalem, built across the "green line" in the occupied West Bank.
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The lagoon is framed by steep granite mountains, lush forest and apartment blocks, and is overlooked by Corcovado, the Christ the Redeemer mountaintop statue.
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Homes in Xiaoshan are a mixture of grubby apartment blocks and grandiose four- and five-storey homes decorated in joyous combinations of pastel colours.
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The vertical forest will consist of three cube-like apartment blocks that will measure 98 feet by 98 feet and be seven stories tall.
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Here, I visited one of the most formidable housing developments in Poland, and indeed the world: the gargantuan apartment blocks known as the Falowiecs.
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One by one, the former illegal Roma shanties were turned into legal brick homes and apartment blocks that the Roma either owned or rented.
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In the post-Mao era, China was opening up, and so it built embassies and modern apartment blocks to house foreign diplomats and journalists.
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Apartment blocks in North Korea are often assigned by profession, with groups such as teachers, workers, or scientists and their families under the same roof.
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Apartment blocks put up on these sites were consequently cheaper, and weren't regulated under home-purchase rules brought in to curb speculation and soaring prices.
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But large property investors in Britain's private rental market have tended to focus instead on developing more traditional apartment blocks designed for families to rent.
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Now she retrieves the rubbish of apartment blocks that have an arrangement with the charity and sorts the recyclable portion in one of its sheds.
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From his office balcony, Mr Tan looks out over rows of vacant apartment blocks and hotels, relics of a building frenzy interrupted by the fighting.
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Amazon has revealed a new delivery locker designed for apartment blocks and other housing complexes that may not have mailroom services to securely process packages.
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It is eventually intended to be a $100 billion city, with apartment blocks, houses, office towers, hotels and shopping centers on four man-made islands.
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Residents waited and watched anxiously as emergency workers dressed in fluorescent orange and red suits and wearing helmets searched for residents trapped in apartment blocks.
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Amazon is quietly stepping up its delivery service game by unveiling The Hub, a new locker service designed for apartment blocks and multi-tenant dwellings.
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The tools have been used to trail suspects to specific rooms in apartment blocks and to find them on moving buses on busy city streets.
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From the mobile-phone masts that have spread all over every big city to the soaring apartment blocks, the desire to change things is evident.
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Small cities are borrowing to build futuristic museums, aquatic centers and apartment blocks that exceed local demand and are often as empty as ghost towns.
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These included colonial-era geometric street plans that tore up the traditional architecture, and massive apartment blocks that isolated their occupants from the city center.
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There's an occasional adult with a pushchair, but the park's surrounded by apartment blocks and houses, and school's out—so where are all the kids?
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The North Koreans work alongside Chinese workers, receive the same wages and live in apartment blocks about three minutes from the plant, a manager said.
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"Warsaw is ruled today by people who want to say you're inferior," he told a cheering crowd this month in front of low-rent apartment blocks.
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The studio sits between two train lines close to a stream amid houses and small apartment blocks, a few stores and a taxi company parking lot.
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Trees sprout from the rusted roofs of apartment blocks in the ghost town of Prypyat, while some animal populations are booming in the absence of humans.
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Apartment blocks line the shore, and while some shopfronts are shuttered, the town is clean and modern, with an open sky and no factories in sight.
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As the government tries to shift the country's engine of growth away from investing in steel mills and apartment blocks, it is encouraging more private consumption.
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Marinka, an unkempt town of about 22014,34 residents that mixes rustic homes and gray apartment blocks, was once renowned in the region for its milk plant.
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When Mr. Kim climbs out of his den, he sees a view of tall, sleek, brightly lit apartment blocks looming in the distance like a mirage.
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Most of the island's apartment blocks were built and then managed by the government, though the vast majority of the units have been sold to citizens.
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The district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg is considering whether to execute its first right of refusal to buy one of the four apartment blocks, a spokeswoman said.
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As we step out onto the street, I wonder which of the nearby apartment blocks hide similar clandestinos, and how I can dig out their addresses.
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Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with 7.4 million people packed into rows upon rows of prefab apartment blocks.
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After its heyday in the 1930s, the neighborhood expanded rapidly under Communism in the 1980s, with scores of prefabricated, concrete apartment blocks to accommodate Prague's booming population.
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The new apartment blocks rising in Pyongyang appear more grounded in economic reality than the gargantuan Ryugyong hotel, which looms over Pyongyang and has never been completed.
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The central government is making it easier for migrants to obtain hukou in small towns and cities where apartment blocks often lie empty but jobs are scarce.
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Rather the intention was to demonstrate an efficient building technique, after all the Chinese have built a lot of huge apartment blocks over the last 20 years.
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Because the communist ideal was tied to metropolitan living, apartment blocks rose even in the more sparsely populated areas, consolidating previously scattered residents into a single building.
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EVERY day Zhong Zhenhua patrols a small network of streets in a well-heeled part of northern Beijing, where a dozen apartment blocks house about 3,000 people.
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Eucalypt-lined streets of red-brick bungalows in the middle-class suburb were snapped up at hefty premiums by developers, razed, and quickly remade as apartment blocks.
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Television footage showed heavy flooding in parts of Ulsan and Busan, with cars and buildings partially submerged and storm-surge waves hitting apartment blocks near the coast.
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Outside that, he suggests that people will want to revisit spaces from their past — like old apartment blocks, favorite vacation spots, or the place they got engaged.
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Billions of dollars in half-finished construction projects ribbon the city skyline: concrete skeletons of hotels, shopping malls and apartment blocks, swaddled in scaffolding and motionless cranes.
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Trakia, a city within a city, is a seemingly never-ending collection of massive Communist-era apartment blocks, 50-year-old paint peeling off soot-stained walls.
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And the eastern districts are now rapidly expanding with even newer developments of shiny apartment blocks popular with upwardly mobile young families from the Tel Aviv area.
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The cladding used has since failed safety checks and prompted a review of the materials used on British buildings ranging from hospitals to hotels to apartment blocks.
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However, set against Tate Modern's Bankside surroundings — expensive offices and tall apartment blocks in steel and glass — it feels more like a garden fountain for contemporary wealth.
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IN 21 WORKERS in what was then East Germany protested against their Soviet overlords on Karl-Marx-Allee, a monumental boulevard in Berlin lined with Stalinist apartment blocks.
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On streets across the country, the faces of industrious peasants, inventive engineers, and pioneering astronauts still beam from propaganda mosaics adorning everything from apartment blocks to movie theaters.
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As tourists deserted, the economy crumbled, along with the impressive villas and commanding apartment blocks that now play home to African migrants and those without many better choices.
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Take the former policeman, an increasingly bitter day laborer who now supports his family hauling bags of cement through the sprawling apartment blocks constantly under construction around Seoul.
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Other possible fixes would be more parking meters; ending a requirement that builders of new apartment blocks provide enough parking for all their residents; and a congestion charge.
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When I visited Shanghai in August 2010, I was stunned to see apartment blocks rising two to three rows deep all along the 110-mile route to Hangzhou.
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In those days, it went without saying that this working-class district of Turin, where the gleaming Alps are obscured by dismal apartment blocks, voted for the left.
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Aston Martin, which has licensed its name for use on apartment blocks and even a submarine, hopes to follow Ferrari by using its exclusivity to appeal to investors.
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Following the Great Depression in the United States, an important market for Brazilian beans, the city's coffee barons started selling their estates to be converted into apartment blocks.
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Following the Great Depression in the United States, an important market for Brazilian beans, the city's coffee barons started selling their estates to be converted into apartment blocks.
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The residential building, which had been under construction for several months, was located in the city's Bellandur neighborhood, home to upscale apartment blocks, hostels and offices of technology companies.
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His house and decked garden, which is adorned with poppies and pink foxgloves and overlooked by towering apartment blocks, could soon be demolished if local authority plans are approved.
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The ample greenery and accessible transport also attracted Igor Popov, who bought a flat several years ago in one of the Soviet-era apartment blocks typical of the area.
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UOL has two 22013-story apartment blocks under construction, comprising 20173 units, each configured with either two or four-bedrooms ranging from 22017 square feet to 210,211 square feet.
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The country of more than 92 million is struggling to build enough houses for the poorest in society, with many Egyptians living in sprawling slums and unlicensed apartment blocks.
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After emerging on West 72nd Street, Mr. Wittrock made his way past the gracious apartment blocks — the Dakota, the Oliver Cromwell, the Franconia — and through the doors of Malachy's.
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After emerging on West 72nd Street, Mr. Wittrock made his way past the gracious apartment blocks — the Dakota, the Oliver Cromwell, the Franconia — and through the doors of Malachy's.
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IN THE SHADOW of towering apartment blocks in Nowon-gu, a suburb of Seoul, employees of CJ Logistics, a large South Korean delivery company, gather at the local welfare centre.
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Today, many of the city's remaining colonial-era apartment blocks are mixed-use and charmingly dilapidated, with an entrepreneurial buzz that lures stylish retailers and mom-and-pop vendors alike.
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The standardized apartment blocks essential to the Yugoslav cityscape — the ones that I was most familiar with — appear only as bit players in some of the sections on urban planning.
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These warrens of shacks and crudely built apartment blocks are home to 0003% of the city's population, according to one recent World Bank survey (others put the figure even higher).
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Earlier this year Moscow city authorities unveiled plans to demolish as many as 22010,220 buildings and move up to 2000m residents from ageing low-rise apartment blocks known as khrushchevki.
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He grumbles about an edict from Park Won-soon, the mayor, which has limited the height of the proposed apartment blocks to 22 storeys as a condition for their approval.
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Dubbed "Klevio One," the device is designed to be retrofitted to existing electric strike-enabled locks, and also interfaces with intercom systems found on the communal doors of apartment blocks.
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Although there are still not enough places for the visiting fans to stay, accommodation arrangements have been made on campsites or in newly finished apartment blocks, close to the stadium.
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"The government warned it would flatten Sur and build a new city in its place with apartment blocks and shopping malls," said Zulfu Livaneli, a Turkish novelist, filmmaker and composer.
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After the bombing of apartment blocks in Moscow and other cities, blamed on Chechen rebels, people latched onto him, then prime minister and Boris Yeltsin's anointed successor, as their saviour.
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"When you look around Ancoats you'll see new apartment blocks and new developments throughout the area, we have done well to fend off the developers for so long," they write.
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Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square.
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Like many other young couples, they tried to raise their child in the city but found life among the apartment blocks too crowded and expensive, with few child care options.
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Across town, down a road lined with communist-era apartment blocks, I arrived at the church building where Cornelia Reuter and her husband, Hagen Kühne, live and work as pastors.
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Take the mind-bending photo of Hong Kong's harbor (below), where the image has been warped so that the city's skyscrapers and apartment blocks wrap around a small bubble of sky.
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The property companies have been paying record sums to buy government land and existing apartment blocks, which they plan to knock down and re-build with developments that have more units.
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As dilapidated houses on stilts give way to towering high-rise apartment blocks, the artists return again and again to the turtles, who seem to absorb it all in studious silence.
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The ancient hills, the old stone homes and many of the sites linked to the life of the Prophet Muhammad have been obliterated by towering shopping malls, hotels and apartment blocks.
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In outer parts of the city such as Sarjapur and Whitefield - beyond the reach of the city water system - sprawling apartment blocks and IT parks run solely on trucked-in water.
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These dead drops can be anywhere from tree hollows, street bushes, round the back of apartment blocks or electrical transformer boxes, in crowded public locations, near metro stations or local forests.
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The government has been constructing high-rise apartment blocks on the edges of the city to house people at subsidized rates, but critics say those efforts have been plagued by corruption.
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A project backed by Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, to demolish thousands of ageing low-rise apartment blocks and resettle their residents, brought thousands to the streets in protest this summer.
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In Moscow alone, some 1.6 million people live in the mostly five-storey peeling apartment blocks which face demolition if the Russian parliament approves a draft law on urban renovation and resettlement.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Muscovites joined a protest rally in the center of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks.
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It is something plainer, more straightforward, a bit ugly even: milky-gray sky, drab office interiors, identical white apartment blocks rising from the green hills with the regularity of a picket fence.
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Maryinka, a Ukrainian-held town of apartment blocks and one-story homes outside the rebel capital of Donetsk, has become a hot spot not only for fighting, but also for saving souls.
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The Aktaion was ultimately demolished under Greece's military dictatorship in the late 2000s and early '220s, as were countless small homes throughout the city, replaced with apartment blocks and other modern buildings.
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He failed to get beyond the quarter-finals there so Baku's Sarhadchi Olympic sports center, out to the east past car repair workshops and high-rise apartment blocks, became his next destination.
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The district where the suspect was captured, Esenyurt, on the European side of Istanbul, is a former slum that has been rapidly redeveloped with new apartment blocks housing many refugees and migrants.
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In the absence of large property firms developing high-end apartment blocks or other major construction in the area due to a lack of clear property deeds, niche investors have seen big opportunities.
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One such system is Energiesprong from the Netherlands, which clads entire apartment blocks and terraces in insulation and solar panels to the point where they can generate all the energy they need themselves.
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"In Singapore, many people live in densely packed apartment blocks so it's easy for high numbers of people to get infected even if there are only a few mosquitoes flying around," explained Ooi.
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Commodities used to build apartment blocks, such as iron (girders) and copper (wires), have recovered slightly from their recent swoon, partly in the hope that China's property market is also stirring (see article).
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It is only in the gritty suburbs, along dusty roads past concrete high-rise apartment blocks and factories, that Novocherkassk's status as a substantial industrial city of more than 170,323 people becomes obvious.
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Apartment blocks have mushroomed and modern shopping malls add to the appearance of growing prosperity, but Ahmet Sayar, head of the Diyarbakir Chamber of Commerce said there is a long way to go.
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Even before the current financial crisis, Rio de Janeiro has long been troubled by massive social problems — the inequality famously visible in the contrast between shabby favela housing and gleaming beachside apartment blocks.
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Just how deep the lies went became apparent on February 8, 2017, when federal agents arrived at a complex of squat brown and black apartment blocks in Columbia, Maryland, with a search warrant.
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"Next fall, we will have several apartment blocks with a classic 1930s Bauhaus design," said Mr. Bay, gesturing at the bustling construction site, where not long ago, soldiers used to practice their drills.
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The studio is on a side street of red brick apartment blocks in an up-and-coming neighborhood of Kiev known as the Podil, or the Skirt, because it flows down a hill.
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Officials authorized the rally, but, as in many cities, they relegated the protesters to a long-neglected park in the outskirts where they were practically hidden among the trees and anonymous apartment blocks.
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Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the "reddest" – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.
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In a payback for Cuaron's tribute to growing up among Roma's handsome villas and apartment blocks, city officials set up giant screens in a park to show the broadcast live from Los Angeles.
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One of the city's most striking features today are the stretches of decaying buildings from several long-forgotten boom periods of Chemnitz's past — socialist apartment blocks, art deco mansions, and 20173th-century train stations.
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The industry helped pay for construction binges like one in Xiaoyi, where Helin is located, topping up local government tax coffers and bestowing the city centre with rows of largely unoccupied luxury apartment blocks.
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At the bottom of a stairwell in one of the apartment blocks lay the corpses of three militants who must have known they would lose against the overwhelming numbers and firepower of their opponents.
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Two hours earlier, I dropped Arden and her two siblings off at their new school in a squat building in a forest of Soviet-era apartment blocks on Krasnoarmeyskaya (Red Army) Street in Moscow.
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But in a place where land prices are among the most expensive in the world, shopping malls and apartment blocks are far more profitable than shellfish, and the area is increasingly attractive to developers.
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Wandering around the neighborhood, it is easy to miss the few remaining signs of the area's Jewish history: just a handful of religious buildings, often hidden behind ugly apartment blocks, and the theater itself.
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Riverside Councilman Mike Soubirous told The Press Enterprise he had received many complaints from residents whose street space was taken up by people who lived nearby in apartment blocks, which didn't have any parking.
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VW's company town is a social democratic utopia: kilometres of red-brick factory stretching along the beautifully landscaped banks of the River Aller, mingling with chrome-and-steel shopping arcades, lakes and modern apartment blocks.
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The six-story brown-brick apartment blocks along 93st Avenue had been encased in green scaffolding and draped with long, heavy bolts of cream burlap, which gave the blunt rectilinear forms a veil of anticipation.
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Pyongyang Journal PYONGYANG, North Korea — Towering apartment blocks line the gleaming, six-lane avenue known as Future Scientists Street, their boldly colored facades leaping from the drab hues that dominate the rest of Pyongyang's skyline.
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Throughout the night of July 15, terrified Turks in Istanbul and Ankara listened to sporadic gunfire, explosions and the sonic booms of low-flying jets over their apartment blocks, rattling buildings and blowing out windows.
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Big apartment blocks figure in several works, like "Mama," where a young girl clambers up to the window sill of a room warm with oranges and browns and sees her mother trudging through the snow.
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If home buying is stressful in most major cities, residents of Moscow, a city of leafy historical neighborhoods and expanses of concrete apartment blocks on the outskirts, grapple with a dizzying range of potential missteps.
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Shiv Shanti Bhuvan is one in the line of 1930s Art Deco apartment blocks that front the green of the Oval Maidan, looking across it to the Victorian spires of the University and High Court.
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In an older China, a bossy place which issues old men and women with red armbands and tasks them to sit outside apartment blocks, snooping on all who pass, he is an object of suspicion.
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Thanks to the relics of mined limestone hills that fragment the landscape like Brutalist apartment blocks, it makes for one of the most impressively strange backdrops for a gathering of 10,000 plus excitable music fans.
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"Parada" has no narrative; it builds its effect with a culmination of glimpses of soldiers buffing up military vehicles, bandsmen practicing, and people hoisting banners of Marx and Lenin onto the side of apartment blocks.
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If current plans are realised, the tiny alleys and houses will make way for a regular grid of streets filled with the sort of high-rise apartment blocks in which two-thirds of South Koreans live.
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Versova is one of nearly 40 koliwadas in Mumbai, its squat homes and colorful boats dwarfed by towering apartment blocks and malls in the city which boasts some of the priciest real estate in the world.
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Although I'm hard-pressed to find an official English term for these prefabricated concrete structures, roughly translated, they're "panel buildings," apartment blocks put together on site from concrete panels poured and pre-stressed in nearby factories.
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They are expected to shy away from trophy office assets, hotels, completed apartment blocks and retail malls, given China is expected to maintain its tough stance on overseas real estate investment this year, C&W added.
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In the 1950s, for example, the architect Minoru Yamasaki designed Pruitt–Igoe, a 33-block housing complex with identical apartment blocks and extensive lawns in St. Louis, in an attempt to revive a low-income neighborhood.
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With local private companies driving a construction boom of new apartment blocks and offices, Ramallah is struggling to cope with affordability, waste as its land fills reach capacity and a loss of green space, said Shaheen.
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Though that tactic lubricated the nation's industrialization, it also contributed to the excess that has buried the country in empty apartment blocks, mothballed cement plants and sputtering steel mills — all of which threaten the economy's stability.
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Glistening apartment blocks gird a desolate construction site where the bodies are found and where Bia — in a scene that encapsulates the picture's silly-chilly mood — gently kisses the bloodied lips of one near-dead girl.
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The sun was sinking low over the desert as I drove down the wide street leading from Maher's home, past shabby apartment blocks with laundry drying on every balcony and stunted palm trees lining the meridian.
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Arquitectonica, a local firm, had established itself in the 1980s with a series of brash, colourful apartment blocks that were immediately snapped up as sets for "Miami Vice", a television series, and "Scarface", a Cuban gangster epic.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of high-rise apartment blocks with external cladding in Britain that have failed fire safety tests following the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze has risen to 75, communities minister Sajid Javid said on Monday.
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As it turns out, he was staying with Ms. Rodel and others like her — men and women seeking political asylum in Hong Kong who live in cramped, substandard apartment blocks in some of the city's poorest districts.
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St Julian's, just north of Valletta harbor, is dotted with tower cranes as old houses make way for new high-rise apartment blocks each vying for a view over a bay dotted with restaurants and colorful boats.
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Asked why so many windows of the apartment blocks were dark while the building exteriors glittered from streetlights, my minder whispered, as if sharing a secret, that the residents were trying to conserve energy for the nation.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - When Tuesday's earthquake struck Mexico, Martha Mejia watched the tin walls of her tiny shack quiver and remembered the smell of death that hung in the air of shattered apartment blocks 32 years before.
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On my own street, beyond the long-razed grand mansions I used to bicycle by, wealthy Jains have turned their modern apartment blocks into militantly meat-free zones, around which few markets dare carry non-vegetarian offerings.
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Humans rarely give much thought to the creatures that flit or crawl or skitter about our apartment blocks and strip malls, in part because we tend to dismiss them as either ordinary or less than fully wild.
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The seven- to nine-story apartment blocks flanking Karl Marx Allee, named after the German political philosopher who wrote "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital", were built between 1952 and 1960 in the socialist wedding-cake style.
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A new town, called Nurkent, has been built from scratch — with apartment blocks, a school, kindergarten and shops to serve the railway workers, crane operators, customs officials and other staff needed to keep the dry port running.
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In a payback for Cuaron's black-and-white tribute to growing up among 1970s Roma's handsome villas and apartment blocks, city officials set up giant screens in a park to watch the live broadcast from Los Angeles.
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This week the army captured the 1070 Apartment Blocks district in southwest Aleppo, a focal point of fighting for months and important because of its position alongside a corridor used by the government into the city's western zone.
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Authorities in Moscow intend to resettle millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about how people will be rehoused are upsetting voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Muscovites protested in the south-west of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks, but numbers had fallen compared to earlier rallies.
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Visible on the hills on the other side of a barren, rock-strewn valley, Kfar Adumim's white-washed apartment blocks and tree-lined roads lie in stark contrast to the ramshackle wood and tin huts of the Bedouins.
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YANAN, China (Reuters) - Staring at an array of floor plans in a showroom packed with models of apartment blocks set to go up in the northwestern city of Yanan, the young couple was faced with a tough decision.
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The Chinese laborers she needs to finish building four 10-story apartment blocks on the outskirts of Blagoveshchensk cannot enter Russia, and nobody in Russia, she said, wants to get involved with a venture so dependent on China.
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Other apartment blocks, like Grenfell, have been prettified with what we now know to be combustible polyethylene — if a council cannot prize poor people from its borough, then it can at least conceal them behind inoffensive pastel shades.
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The U.S. government has blacklisted more businesses in Guadalajara than in any other city, including bars, restaurants, tequila firms, apartment blocks, shopping malls, shoe stores, pawn shops, gas stations, an ostrich farm and a clinic for vaginal rejuvenation.
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As a coral scientist describes the Great Barrier Reef as the "Manhattan" of the ocean, where fish take up residence as if in apartment blocks, the cameras show clown fish popping out of the equivalent of windows in skyscrapers.
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For the thousands of civilians living in the crossfire, the fighting often starts without warning, forcing many to take shelter in basements to escape the shelling that gouges holes out of apartment blocks and severs power and water supplies.
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Private club memberships have long been seen as a form of investment in the small city-state, where land is scarce and, until relatively recently, access to pools, tennis courts and other amenities weren't available at most apartment blocks.
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Astor Place is already a drugstore mecca, anonymous glass-fronted apartment blocks dominate where art used to thrive, and the only bars worth visiting anymore are down towards Avenue C. But people need laundry baskets, and late capitalism provides.
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N and Hong Kong-based buyout firm PAG are among investors that took bidding papers for Japan's biggest sale of public apartment blocks, according to sources, a deal for which government wants at least 5003 billion yen ($2500 million).
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A thick belt of manufacturing industry stretches north-west from the city, which is ringed with suburbs like Coverciano, made up of low-rise apartment blocks dating from the days of Italy's economic miracle in the 1950s and 60s.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia proposes resettling millions of citizens from decrepit Soviet-era apartment blocks into modern high-rise flats, but concerns about quality, a lack of services and infrastructure could upset voters ahead of a presidential election in 2018.
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Downtown residents - packed together in tight row houses or apartment blocks - are more active and socially engaged than people who live in the sprawl of suburbia, according to a report that aims to challenge popular beliefs about city life.
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Second, unchecked development in the greater Jakarta region, which is now home to more than 235 million people, meant retention ponds, swampland and other open spaces that normally absorb rainwater were paved over for shopping malls and apartment blocks.
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TURIN, Italy (Reuters) - A rainstorm buffets unheated apartment blocks on the outskirts of the northern Italian city of Turin where more than 1,000 impoverished African migrants huddle in rooms built to house 300 competitors at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Most old nightclubs—or "clubs" as they were quaintly called—are apartment blocks now, but call in a couple of favors from some property developer friends and see if they've got one they haven't got round to converting yet.
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A vigorous uphill walk (or take the number 213 bus) leads you to the Ana Polis, or Upper Town, where the orderly grid of busy streets and dense apartment blocks gives way to peaceful winding lanes of small houses.
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Delclos said dozens of high-rise apartment blocks have been demolished in the neighbourhood over the past two decades, after they were found to be causing a lung disease called aluminosis, triggered by exposure to aluminium particles in dust.
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Now, however, much of that expanse has become a building site, one that promises to transform the adjacent run-down apartment blocks into desirable properties ripe for renovation and fronting a seaside park designed by the architect Renzo Piano.
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Much of the growth in China's natural gas consumption has been to replace the burning of coal in industrial applications, such as the manufacture of ceramics and cement, as well as replacing coal-fired boilers in residential apartment blocks.
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It was an embarrassing stain on a progressive city that for decades had welcomed immigrants fleeing war, famine and poverty only to leave them trapped in an isolated collection of decrepit brick apartment blocks where crime and despair took root.
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But a merged entity would have a very strong position in cable and broadband, in particular to multi-family apartment blocks, leading competitors to urge regulators to step in and ensure that they also have 'last-mile' access to households.
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Berkeley, whose properties include luxury apartment blocks, posted a 34 percent rise in pre-tax profit to 392.7 million pounds ($496 million) in the six months to the end of October and urged government to bring clarity to Britain's Brexit terms.
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But a merged entity will have a very strong position in cable and broadband, in particular to multi-family apartment blocks, leading competitors to urge regulators to step in and ensure that they also have "last-mile" access to households.
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There, changes involve renovations to older, existing buildings as well as the construction of sleek new mid-rise gray-brick apartment blocks that fill in stretches of long-vacant land where poorly maintained council towers were demolished in the early 2000s.
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Once I had Bauhaus on my mind, I saw it everywhere — in the big rectangular windows of newly built homes along the Elbe River and in the right angles of the G.D.R.-era apartment blocks in the center of town.
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After tenant outcry, the city also saved at least two apartment blocks in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg from being sold, using a legal tool known as the "right of first refusal," which lets officials intervene if they can find funding for the purchase.
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This informal lending network — which allows Chinese investors to fund overseas projects and buyers — largely bypasses banks and other traditional sources of funds, bringing money to places as varied as a sports center in Illinois and apartment blocks in Tennessee.
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Surrounded by the debris of apartment blocks and bombed-out streets, these spaces offer some glimmer of hope against the ongoing cultural and ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish people, a dangerous task to be sure, but nevertheless one of monumental importance.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In India's 'Silicon Valley' tech hub of Bangalore, where gleaming office complexes and apartment blocks have sprouted faster than the plumbing to serve them, only 260% of the water the city needs each day arrives through its water pipes.
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The escapees said the air strikes had flattened rows of apartment blocks along a main road but many of them had already been abandoned by residents fleeing Islamic State's reign of terror and the assault on the town, which began last week.
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Dozens of people were seen walking out with luggage when Reuters visited one of the apartment blocks in Beijing's Tongzhou district on Thursday, where forced evictions have been reported and a banner which read "crack down on illegally rented apartments" could be seen.
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Their poverty forced many families to live three generations in one apartment, in ghastly Soviet-era apartment blocks that nevertheless, in the courtyard, had a mixing of many families and many generations, and kids running around and communal child care and all that.
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Houellebecq told me that a series of aerial photographs of apartment blocks from the Avallon suburbs was shot from a hot air balloon, which he enjoyed riding in because it was possible to stop in the air and maintain a constant altitude.
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Both can rattle off countless examples of nearly miraculous urban revitalization: thriving businesses in storefronts that stood vacant for years; gleaming new high-rise apartment blocks that are largely (some say entirely) rented out even before they're completed; vibrant arts and culinary scenes.
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A large gold and pink mosaic-tiled pumpkin sculpture sits in a room on the top floor overlooking a vista of apartment blocks, with the laundry drying on the balconies across the street offering a prosaic backdrop to Ms. Kusama's mesmerizing work.
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This nimble, continuously surprising show tells one of the most underappreciated stories of postwar architecture: the rise of avant-garde government buildings, pie-in-the-sky apartment blocks, mod beachfront resorts and even whole new cities in the southeast corner of Europe.
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The plan, among thousands of documents relating to the Olympic Park reviewed by Reuters through a freedom of information request, shows a busy neighborhood with apartment blocks hugging the waterline, a neat web of streets and a park, school, hotel and shopping mall.
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The city's water demands have almost doubled in the past five years, he said, and that demand is rising every day as the capital expands both out and up, with a boom in the construction of apartment blocks and offices, Nigusse said.
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The city's water demands have almost doubled in the past five years, he said, and that demand is rising every day as the capital expands both out and up, with a boom in the construction of apartment blocks and offices, Nigusse said.
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A celebration of the unplanned, improvised city of streets and corners, Jacobs's is a landscape that most urban-planning rhetoric of the time condemned as obsolete and slummy, something to be replaced by large-scale apartment blocks with balconies and inner-courtyard parks.
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Gazing out, I was confronted with a tableau of rapid change: orange-vested laborers, boxcars painted a reassuring blue, new suburbs, a church spire above drab five-story Communist-era apartment blocks, poplars and willows, storks' nests suspended in wintry branches, crumbling farm buildings.
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Amanda Gutiérrez, a Mexican photographer based in New York, has recently opened an evocative exhibition here: In "Walking in Lightness," her images of Sunset Park apartment blocks, storefronts and fruit vendors are printed with variable dye shifts or collaged on top of each other.
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MOSCOW — Demonstrators packed a downtown Moscow avenue on Sunday, angered by plans for the mass demolition and replacement of huge apartment blocks and by what they called the highhanded way that City Hall, and by extension the federal government, trampled on their basic rights.
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As my grandmother and I walked that afternoon among the busy vendors on that not-really-pedestrianized Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po, I asked her about Hong Kong's huge, distinctive apartment blocks, the facades of which are dotted with air-conditioners and drying clothing.
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Through dozens of case studies, from apartment blocks and government ministries to universities and convention centers, "Architecture of Independence" uncovers not only the unsung splendor of African cities but also the contemporary lives of schoolchildren, office workers and street vendors of today's Dakar or Nairobi.
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Today, even on wintry, wet days, commuters move along a busy bike highway that connects the warrens of the oldest part of the city, where some buildings date to the 1400s, to the northern neighborhoods, whizzing past the stately apartment blocks that overlook the lake.
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The startup is now ready to start manufacturing its first smart lock product, which is targeted at the enterprise market, and specifically aims to address multi-occupancy apartment blocks such as mansion blocks and/or offices (rather than being intended for front doors of individual apartments).
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Yes, I encountered imposing high-rise apartment blocks, but just as often I found myself strolling through a wooded park, along a disused rail line reclaimed as a pedestrian thoroughfare, or down a sleepy main street that could have belonged to a market village in rural France.
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Walking behind G., as always when I was with someone born in Sofia, I had a sense of the city opening itself up, the monolithic blank concrete of the Soviet-style apartment blocks giving way to unsuspected courtyards and cafés and paths through overgrown little parks.
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The object lesson began in October 1973 when the brash property tycoon turned to Cohn for advice on what to do about a major civil rights lawsuit filed against Trump and his father accusing them of racial bias in their selection of tenants for the family's apartment blocks.
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French waste and water group Suez, which has a 30-year contract to run the installation, already operates a dozen such heating systems around the country, including in pools in Paris suburb Levallois and in Annemasse, near the Swiss border, and in schools, apartment blocks and administrative buildings.
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Here at the Silwan Club, the cramped outdoor space is made to feel smaller by the presence of Ma'ale ha-Zeitim's large apartment blocks, which loom overhead — the two areas separated only by a sharp wall of security fencing, grey bars that curve and end in sharp, delicate steel points.
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That is on top of 12.4 billion euros in real estate assets it held as of the end of 2018, and ranges from unfinished apartment blocks in Benidorm and villas on the Costa del Sol, to parking lots and offices in cities across Spain and undeveloped land in rural areas.
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High-rise apartment blocks have sprung up in a region long dependent on farming and fishing, and construction is about to start on Rize's first airport, the sort of projects Erdogan and his supporters hope will help win him a referendum on Sunday on constitutional changes that would boost his powers.
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In contrast to the crumbling, Soviet-style apartment blocks in a nearby suburb of Tbilisi — buildings that look as if they began falling down before they were even fully built — the Chinese company offers clean if basic modern towers with elevators that work and corridors that do not smell of urine.
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The show glides in a buzzing, trance-like way from school corridors to nighttime streets to bleak apartment blocks, landing at an anonymous motel for a freighted scene in which the search for the next party brings the girls together with the young military recruiters they see every day at school.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli equipment arrived before dawn on Monday and began clawing at the first of 10 Palestinian apartment blocks that were scheduled for demolition because the government said they were built too close to its security barrier in a Palestinian area of the West Bank abutting Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM — Israeli equipment arrived before dawn on Monday and began clawing at the first of 10 Palestinian apartment blocks that were scheduled for demolition because the government said they were built too close to its security barrier in a Palestinian area of the West Bank abutting Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem.
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It's too soon to tell how well its pieces fit together, but the trailer itself is a cascade of striking images, jumping deftly from shots of crowded apartment blocks in the style of Kowloon Walled City to sweeping panoramas of cityscapes where holographic 30-storey ads with geishas nestle against skyscrapers.
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Behind the gates of the factory, surrounded by a hospital, a shopping mall and high-rise apartment blocks, workers and bulldozers were busy on a recent visit tearing down furnaces as part of a 143 billion yuan ($214 billion) plan to move to a new industrial park 2100 kilometers (214.6 miles) away.
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I spent some time wandering around the dusty streets gazing at stray dogs, boys playing badminton, unfinished apartment blocks, mats being beaten, androgynous helmeted young men in longyis and tie-dye T-shirts sitting on motor scooters, men filling sacks of sand, and women with a dozen bricks balanced on their heads.
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Attia said he was amazed to learn that Le Corbusier visited Ghardaïa in the nineteen-thirties and was captivated by its minimalism and its community-oriented urban plan, lessons that he and his fellow-modernist Fernand Pouillon applied to the apartment blocks they later built in France, which now house North African immigrants.
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Most of the office buildings, university campuses, hotels and apartment blocks examined here were photographed by the razor-sharp Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan, and his on-the-street, people-centric gaze makes this show not just a roll call of great buildings but a celebration of their contemporary use and reinvention.
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"There are a lot of good studies out there focused on trying to understand how bed bugs are attracted to humans and how they get around apartment blocks, but no one has really talked about how they get into the house in the first place," study author William Hentley from the University of Sheffield in the UK told Gizmodo.
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Along with the cladding, investigators are looking, among much else, at the absence of sprinklers and a centralized alarm system in the building, which is not uncommon for British apartment blocks as old as Grenfell Tower, and guidance that urged residents to "stay put" and await instructions if a fire broke out in someone else's unit.
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Now that Abadi has met Trump, he should invite him to visit Iraq and see a city such as Sulaimani which is, by regional standards, a safe and well-ordered city of smooth highways and modern apartment blocks ringed by snow-capped mountains that feels a lot freer and more open than much of the rest of the Middle East.
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In between are set-piece "interludes" examining the mechanics of the occupation — the "humiliation machine" of the checkpoint at Qalandia, the apartment blocks of Rawabi, near Ramallah, not, as the promotional materials and newspaper reports would have you believe, a "city of hope," but in fact a tangle of financial interests tying Palestinian elites to Israeli developers and Qatari financiers.
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Other buildings Johnson saw on his European trips, including Moscow apartment blocks and the functionalist pavilions and restaurants of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, modernism's breakthrough in Sweden, are evoked through the first of several irritating videos, on eye-straining stereoscopic screens, in which a few shots of buildings are intercut with excessive stock footage of chugging trains and smiling children.
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Confused, hungry, and wanting the world's ecosystem to survive so far into the future that we one day get to see all of it covered by sky-high apartment blocks that no one can actually afford to live in, I asked a bunch of experts what the most ethical meal in the UK right now might be, so I could cook it.
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The first work realized in Bródno was a project in cooperation with nearby residents and children of a local primary school, "The Garden of Eden" (2009), which consists of shrubs, trees, and a terra firm foundation, displaying topiary arches that frame the rows of surrounding apartment blocks, a work conceived by Althamer while he was tripping on drugs: The special and relatively easy to recall "moment of passage" in Bródno happened when taking drugs.
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It has the same crumbling concrete apartment blocks, the same colonnaded theater building, the same central square formerly named after Lenin and the same street slogans celebrating victory in the Great Patriotic War, as Russia refers to World War II. It also has three movie houses, two indoor public swimming pools, a well-deserved reputation for camaraderie and a huge new Orthodox cathedral with glittering golden domes, an indispensable feature of urban planning in the age of President Vladimir V. Putin.
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BEIRUT, LEBANON — For Ammar Salmo, his daily bid to save lives as bombs and artillery shells fall from the skies on Aleppo is caught up in a daunting barrage of obstacles: the barrel bombs that tumble from the backs of Syrian Army helicopters, the airstrikes that collapse apartment blocks and houses, the lack of medical facilities even as more than 300 people reportedly have died in the city in the past two weeks alone — turning all sense of humanity on its head.
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Our guide, Nick, started us off at Xiahai Miao (Under the Sea), a Buddhist temple with an adjacent vegetarian restaurant (the Eight Treasure Noodles were quite good), then walked us through the former Jewish Ghetto, where 20,000 refugees lived during World War II. Winding our way through the nongtang (old-fashioned alleyways) passing humble apartment blocks with European-style balconies, we ended up near the intersection of Dongyuhang and Anguo Roads, where I found the sheng jian bao of my dreams in a small storefront.
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