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101-419: As the most recently developed district of Bern, Bümpliz-Oberbottigen is an amalgamation of Bümpliz, a formerly independent suburban municipality, with rural hamlets such as Oberbottigen and Riedbach and modern highrise housing developments. The tower blocks of Gäbelbach, Tscharnergut and Stöckacker, a heritage from the 1960s and 70s, are a prominent part of Bethlehem's cityscape. The most recent quarter, Brünnen,

202-460: A low-rise building and is defined differently in terms of height depending on the jurisdiction . It is used as a residential , office building , or other functions including hotel , retail , or with multiple purposes combined. Residential high-rise buildings are also known in some varieties of English, such as British English , as tower blocks and may be referred to as MDUs , standing for multi-dwelling units . A very tall high-rise building

303-714: A Baptist church that had been displaced following the hurricane. On 19 July 1941, Pope Pius XII declared Maurice to be the patron saint of the Italian Army 's Alpini (mountain infantry corps). The Alpini have celebrated Maurice's feast every year since then. The Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria does not mention Maurice, although there are several Coptic churches named for him. The Our Lady of Laus apparitions included an apparition of Saint Maurice. He appeared in an antique episcopal vestment and told Benoîte Rencurel that he

404-636: A collective society, an environment suitable and necessary for the new way of life. Residential tower complexes are common in Asian countries such as China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan, Iran and South Korea, as urban densities are very high. In Singapore and urban Hong Kong , land prices are so high that a large portion of the population lives in high-rise apartments. In fact, over 60% of Hong Kong residents live in apartments, many of them condominiums . Of them in 2020, 2,112,138 were identified residents of public housing, which

505-616: A dark-skinned man in knight's armour was sculpted in the mid-13th century for Magdeburg Cathedral; there it is displayed next to the grave of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. Jean Devisse, author of the book The Image of the Black in Western Art , laid out the documentary sources for the saint's popularity and documented it with illustrative examples. The Magdeburg cathedral in the 13th century presumably had other images of Maurice that did not visibly represent him as being an African, though with

606-547: A design with setbacks . Apartment buildings have technical and economic advantages in areas of high population density , and have become a distinctive feature of housing accommodation in virtually all densely populated urban areas around the world. In contrast with low-rise and single-family houses, apartment blocks accommodate more inhabitants per unit of area of land and decrease the cost of municipal infrastructure . Various bodies have defined "high-rise": High-rise apartment buildings had already appeared in antiquity :

707-499: A different section in the building regulations in the world. The residential tower block with its typical concrete construction is a familiar feature of Modernist architecture . Influential examples include Le Corbusier 's "housing unit", his Unité d'Habitation , repeated in various European cities starting with his Cité radieuse in Marseille (1947–52), constructed of béton brut , rough-cast concrete , as steel for framework

808-615: A gathering of the entire populace of the city and of their fellow countrymen. They are still venerated there, to the salvation of the homeland. Maurice is traditionally depicted in full armour, in Italy emblazoned with a red cross. In folk culture he has become connected with the legend of the Holy Lance , which he is supposed to have carried into battle; his name is engraved on the Holy Lance of Vienna , one of several relics claimed as

909-446: A greater demand for housing. However, some cities such as Quebec City and Halifax have fewer high-rise buildings due to several factors: a focus on historic preservation , height restrictions, and lower growth rates. In middle-sized cities with a relatively low population density, such as Calgary , Edmonton , Winnipeg , or Hamilton there are more apartment towers but they are greatly outnumbered by single-family houses . Most of

1010-583: A high-rise building surrounded by a swath of landscaped land; e.g., the tower does not directly front the street. It is based on an ideology popularised by Le Corbusier with the Plan Voisin , an expansion of the Garden city movement aimed at reducing the problem of urban congestion. It was introduced in several large cities across the world, notably in North America , Europe and Australia as

1111-555: A high-rise satellite city for 150,000 inhabitants had to be shelved due to the recession brought about by the 1973 oil crisis , and another plan failed in the 1990s due to the collapse of a bubble in the housing market. A much reduced development plan for the new Brünnen quarter was approved in a 1999 referendum. After lengthy court disputes, construction of the residential buildings and of the Westside shopping and leisure complex designed by Daniel Libeskind commenced in 2005. The area

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1212-460: A lot more mainly throughout the north and south inner city of Dublin. Suburban flat complexes were built exclusively on the northside of the city in Ballymun , Coolock and Kilbarrack . These flats were badly affected by a heroin epidemic that hit working-class areas of Dublin in the 1980s and early 1990s. Residential tower blocks were previously uncommon outside of Dublin, but during the era of

1313-464: A meaning similar to " projects ". For modern hi-rises, there are two borrowed words to make a distinction: In South Korea, the tower blocks are called Apartment Complex ( 아파트 단지 ). The first residential towers began to be built after the Korean War . The South Korean government needed to build many apartment complexes in the cities to be able to accommodate the citizens. In the 60 years since, as

1414-691: A revolt by the bagaudae . The Theban Legion was dispatched with orders to clear the Great St Bernard Pass across the Alps . Before going into battle, they were instructed to offer sacrifices to the pagan gods and pay homage to the emperor. Maurice pledged his men's military allegiance to Rome . He stated that service to God superseded all else. He said that to engage in wanton slaughter was inconceivable to Christian soldiers. He and his men refused to worship Roman deities . When Maximian ordered them to murder local Christians, they refused. Ordering

1515-765: A small scale. There are some tall residential buildings in La Défense district, such as Tour Défense 2000 , even though the district is mainly "commercial". This allows the residents to walk to the nearby office buildings without using vehicles. Tower blocks were first built in the United Kingdom after the Second World War , and were seen as a cheap way to replace 19th-century urban slums and war-damaged buildings. They were originally seen as desirable, but quickly fell out of favour as tower blocks attracted rising crime and social disorder, particularly after

1616-625: A soldier in the Roman army . He rose through the ranks until he became the commander of the Theban legion, thus leading approximately a thousand men. He was an acknowledged Christian at a time when early Christianity was considered to be a threat to the Roman Empire . The legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called from Thebes in Egypt to Gaul to assist Emperor Maximian in defeating

1717-418: A solution for housing, especially for public housing , reaching a peak of popularity in the 1960s with the introduction of prefabrication technology . By the early 1970s, opposition to this style of towers mounted, with many, including urban planners, now referring to them as " ghettos ". Neighbourhoods like St. James Town were originally designed to house young "swinging single" middle class residents, but

1818-694: Is 28% of the total population. Sarah Williams Goldhagen (2012) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA (based in Singapore), Mass Studies (based in Seoul), Amateur Architecture Studio (based in Hangzhou, China ), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into "vertical communities" or "vertical cities in the sky" providing aesthetic, unusually designed silhouettes on

1919-613: Is also the patron saint of the Brotherhood of Blackheads , a historical military society of unmarried merchants in present-day Estonia and Latvia . In September 2008, certain relics of Maurice were transferred to a new reliquary and rededicated in Schiavi di Abruzzo (Italy). He is also the patron saint of the town of Coburg in Bavaria , Germany . He is shown there as a man of colour especially on manhole covers as well as on

2020-673: Is among the best-preserved such settlements, including among others the Hochstudhaus , a 1675 farmhouse displaying exceptionally fine craftsmanship, and the Hans-Franz-Nägeli-Haus , a 17th-century High Baroque country estate in the center of the settlement. One of the area's first modern housing developments, the Morgenstrasse-Siedlung of 1943-44 in Bümpliz by Hermann Rüfenacht , is a testament to

2121-455: Is individually owned; they may be called low-rise (or walk-up ), mid-rise , high-rise , or skyscraper depending on their height. Tall residential towers are a staple building type in all large cities. Their relative prominence in Canadian cities varies substantially, however. In general, more populated cities have more high-rises than smaller cities, due to a relative scarcity of land and

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2222-602: Is no clear difference between a tower block and a skyscraper, although a building with forty or more stories and taller than 150 metres (490 ft) is generally considered a skyscraper. High-rise structures pose particular design challenges for structural and geotechnical engineers, particularly if situated in a seismically active region or if the underlying soils have geotechnical risk factors such as high compressibility or bay mud . They also pose serious challenges to firefighters during emergencies in high-rise structures. New and old building design, building systems such as

2323-559: Is noted for its population density , eight times greater than Rome , though less than Manhattan and Paris. Its metropolitan area is the densest in the OECD . Although some Central and Eastern European countries during the interwar period , such as the Second Polish Republic , already started building housing estates that were considered to be of a high standard for their time, many of these structures perished during

2424-459: Is now Saint-Maurice, Switzerland , site of the Abbey of St. Maurice . So reads the earliest account of their martyrdom , contained in the public letter which Bishop Eucherius of Lyon (c. 434–450), addressed to his fellow bishop, Salvius. Alternative versions have the legion refusing Maximian's orders only after discovering innocent Christians had inhabited a town they had just destroyed, or that

2525-403: Is now the civil registry office of Bern; all civil marriages in the city are officiated in the palace's richly decorated great salon. The reformed church of Bümpliz, formerly a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Maurice , was rebuilt in 1666 after a fire by Abraham Dünz . It received extensions by Karl Indermühle in 1915 and 1924 as well as by Karl Indermühle in 1952. Also in Bümpliz,

2626-417: Is planned to be fully developed in 2018. The Altes Schloss (Old Palace) of Bümpliz on Bümplizstrasse 91 is built on the site of a 10th-century Upper Burgundian royal court. A round tower, whose fundaments are visible in the cellar, was built by Peter II of Savoy in the 1260s. The current palace was built after 1488 by Rudolf von Erlach in the late medieval Romantic style and was partially adapted to

2727-428: Is referred to as a skyscraper . High-rise buildings became possible to construct with the invention of the elevator (lift) and with less expensive, more abundant building materials. The materials used for the structural system of high-rise buildings are reinforced concrete and steel . Most North American –style skyscrapers have a steel frame , while residential blocks are usually constructed of concrete. There

2828-537: The insulae in Ancient Rome and several other cities in the Roman Empire , some of which might have reached up to ten or more stories, one reportedly having 200 stairs. Because of the destruction caused by poorly built high-rise insulae collapsing, several Roman emperors , beginning with Augustus (r. 30 BC – 14 AD), set limits of 20–25 metres (66–82 ft) for multi-story buildings, but met with limited success, as these limits were often ignored despite

2929-862: The Canton of Lucerne , four in the Canton of Solothurn , and one in Appenzell Innerrhoden can be found (in fact, his feast day is a cantonal holiday in Appenzell Innerrhoden). Particularly notable among these are the Church and Abbey of Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, the Church of Saint Moritz in the Engadin , and the Monastery Chapel of Einsiedeln Abbey , where his name continues to be greatly revered. Several orders of chivalry were established in his honour as well, including

3030-584: The Castle Village towers in Manhattan, New York City, completed in 1939. Their cross-shaped design was copied in towers in Parkchester and Stuyvesant Town residential developments. St. Maurice Maurice (also Moritz , Morris , or Mauritius ; Coptic : Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ ) was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of

3131-534: The Celtic Tiger the largest cities such as Dublin, Cork , Limerick and Galway witnessed new large apartment building, although their heights have generally been restricted. Some large towns such as Navan , Drogheda , Dundalk and Mullingar have also witnessed the construction of many modern apartment blocks. Tower blocks in Northern Ireland were never built to the frequency as in cities on

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3232-519: The Crusades , most of which had been failing at the time. Frederick seemingly wanted to symbolically state that, even though Christians cannot reconquer Africa, Christianity once triumphed in Africa before the arrival of Islam . Given that Maurice was a Christian, his foreignness could not be depicted with iconographic vocabulary such as curved swords, insignia on shields or headdresses. As such, Maurice

3333-546: The Czech Republic and Slovakia ), panelák building under Marxism–Leninism resulted from two main factors: the postwar housing shortage and the ideology of the ruling party . In Eastern European countries, opinions about these buildings vary greatly, with some deeming them as eyesores on their city's landscape while others glorify them as relics of a bygone age and historical examples of unique architectural styles (such as socialist realism, brutalism , etc.). Since

3434-472: The Gäbelbach development, Bern's most architecturally prominent work of large-scale housebuilding. It consists of three immense tower blocks inspired by Le Corbusier 's Unités d'Habitation linked by an axis of community buildings. Just south of Gäbelbach, the long-empty Brünnen field is currently being developed into an upmarket residential area. The new quarter's commercial and architectural centerpiece –

3535-640: The Heimatstil -influenced wartime modern style in Switzerland. The Stapfenacker school, built 1930-31 by Karl Indermühle, is one of Switzerland's first schools in the Neues Bauen style. The Tscharnergut tower blocks, built in Bethlehem in 1958-65 as a car-free satellite town for 5,000 inhabitants, were among the country's first highrise housing developments. In 1965-68, they were complemented by

3636-493: The Napoleonic reforms , experienced a swift growth as a suburb of Bern after the 1860s. Financial difficulties forced it to agree to a merger with Bern in 1919. The new district continued to grow, in particular after 1945 with the construction of large-scale housing developments and satellite towns (Tscharnergut 1958–67, Schwabgut 1965–71, Fellergut 1961–64, Gäbelbach 1965–68 and Kleefeld 1968–72). Ambitious plans to build

3737-616: The Order of the Golden Fleece , Order of Saint Maurice , and the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus . Additionally, fifty-two towns and villages in France have been named in his honour. Maurice was also the patron saint of a Catholic parish and church in the 9th Ward of New Orleans and including part of the town of Arabi in St. Bernard Parish . The church was constructed in 1856, but

3838-468: The Westside complex by Daniel Libeskind – was opened to the public on 8 October 2008. All links are in German. 46°56′34″N 7°21′42″E  /  46.94265°N 7.36175°E  / 46.94265; 7.36175 Tower block A tower block , high-rise , apartment tower , residential tower , apartment block , block of flats , or office tower is a tall building , as opposed to

3939-479: The dissolution of the Soviet Union , and especially in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many of the former Eastern Bloc countries have begun construction of new, more expensive and modern housing. The Śródmieście borough of Warsaw , the capital of Poland, has seen the development of an array of skyscrapers. Russia is also currently undergoing a dramatic buildout, growing a commercially shaped skyline. Moreover,

4040-511: The 10th century, described them as resembling minarets , while Nasir Khusraw , in the early 11th century, described some of them rising up to 14 stories, with roof gardens on the top story complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them. By the 16th century, Cairo also had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were rented out to tenants . The skyline of many important medieval cities

4141-492: The 1920s, when the Soviet Union underwent rapid urbanization . Under the Soviet urban planning ideologies of the 1920s , residential complexes—compact territories with residential dwellings, schools, shops, entertainment facilities, and green spaces —started to prevail in urban planning practice, as they allowed for more careful and efficient planning of the rapid urban expansion. These complexes were seen as an opportunity to build

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4242-729: The Divis estate were of poor build quality and were all demolished by the early 1990s. Similar slab blocks were built by the NIHT in East Belfast (Tullycarnet) and Derry's Bogside area, all four of which have been demolished. Belfast Corporation constructed seven tower blocks on the former Victoria Barracks site in the New Lodge district. While the Corporation built some mid-rise flats as part of slum clearance schemes (most notably

4343-560: The Elder (1472–1553) in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art . The city of Coburg 's coat of arms honoured the town's patron saint, Saint Maurice, since they were granted in 1493. In 1934, the Nazi government forbade any glorification of the "Black" race, and they replaced the coat of arms with one depicting a vertical sword with a Nazi swastika on the pommel. The original coat of arms

4444-759: The Feller country estate, a 1730 construction, was reshaped in the Classicist style in the 19th century, and is now embedded in the Fellergut highrise housing development. In Brünnen, the former lord's estate, a 1648 construction with 1765 extension by Niklaus Sprüngli , features painted wood carvings that are among Bern's best architectural sculptures from the Louis XV period. In the rural landscape west of Bümpliz many significant works of traditional Bernese countryside architecture remain. The hamlet of Niederbottigen

4545-661: The M2 Motorway at Broadway. Belfast City Hospital also constructed a high-rise slab block which since privatisation has been named Bradbury Court, formerly known as Erskine House. Queens University Belfast built several eleven storey towers at its Queens Elms student accommodation. Of the three sixteen-story point blocks of Larne Borough Council in the late 1960s, only one remains. In Canada, large multi-family buildings are usually known as apartment buildings or apartment blocks if they are rented from one common landowner, or condominiums or condo towers if each dwelling unit

4646-808: The Republic of Ireland were concentrated in the suburb of Ballymun , Dublin . The Ballymun Flats were built between 1966 and 1969: seven 15-story towers, nineteen 8-story blocks and ten 4-story blocks. These were the "seven towers" referred to in the U2 song "Running to Stand Still". They have since been demolished. Inner Dublin flat complexes, typically of 4-5 storeys include Sheriff Street (demolished), Fatima Mansions (demolished and redeveloped), St Joseph's Gardens (demolished; replaced by Killarney Court flat complex), St Teresa's Gardens, Dolphin House, Liberty House, St Michael's Estate (8 storeys) and O'Devaney Gardens and

4747-662: The Second World War. In the Eastern Bloc , tower blocks were constructed in great numbers to produce plenty of cheap accommodation for the growing postwar populations of the USSR and its satellite states . This took place mostly in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, though in the People's Republic of Poland this process started even earlier due to the severe damages that Polish cities sustained during World War II. Throughout

4848-492: The United States, tower blocks are commonly referred to as "midrise" or "highrise apartment buildings", depending on their height, while buildings that house fewer flats (apartments), or are not as tall as the tower blocks, are called "lowrise apartment buildings". Specifically, "midrise" buildings are as tall as the streets are wide, allowing five hours of sunlight on the street. Some of the first residential towers were

4949-549: The Valais (Switzerland) as well as of soldiers, swordsmiths, armies, and infantrymen. In 1591 Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy arranged the triumphant return of part of the relics of Saint Maurice from the monastery of Agaune in Valais. He is also the patron saint of weavers and dyers. Manresa (Spain), Piedmont (Italy), Montalbano Jonico (Italy), Schiavi di Abruzzo (Italy), Stadtsulza (Germany) and Coburg (Germany) have chosen Maurice as their patron saint as well. Maurice

5050-429: The [black] Moors". As such, according to her, Alfred took cognizance of this new idea of the saint as a dark-skinned Moor and commissioned a "black St. Maurice" in the context of a new building program after a fire devastated the old cathedral in 1207. Devisse had also raised this idea because it "would be negative psychological reactions on the part of the populace to the sudden arrival of a [black] saint substituting for

5151-468: The apartments lacked appeal and the area quickly became much poorer. From its early days of implementation the concept was criticised for making residents feel unsafe, including large empty common areas dominated by gang culture and crime. The layout was criticised for normalising anti-social behaviour and hampering the efforts of essential services, particularly for law enforcement . The history of microdistricts as an urban planning concept dates back to

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5252-637: The architects of Robin Hood Gardens . As another large example, in 2005 it was decided to carry out a 20-year process of demolition and replacement of dwellings with modern houses in the Aylesbury Estate in south London, built in 1970. The Hulme Crescents in Manchester were the largest social housing scheme in Europe when built in 1972 but lasted just 22 years. The Crescents had one of

5353-442: The building standpipe system, HVAC systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), fire sprinkler systems, and other things such as stairwell and elevator evacuations pose significant problems. Studies are often required to ensure that pedestrian wind comfort and wind danger concerns are addressed. In order to allow less wind exposure, to transmit more daylight to the ground and to appear more slender, many high-rises have

5454-581: The buildings and developments are Trellick Tower , Balfron Tower , Broadwater Farm , Robin Hood Gardens and Keeling House in London, Hunslet Grange in Leeds and Park Hill, Sheffield , and Castlefields and Southgate Estate , Runcorn . These were an attempt to develop a new architecture, differentiated from earlier large housing estates, such as Quarry Hill flats in Leeds. Alison and Peter Smithson were

5555-446: The cities, some of which were made up of slums. Construction continued in the 1970s and 1980s, under the systematisation programme of Nicolae Ceaușescu , which consisted largely of the demolition and reconstruction of existing villages, towns, and cities, in whole or in part, in order to build blocks of flats ( blocuri ), as a result of increasing urbanisation following an accelerated industrialisation process. In Czechoslovakia (now

5656-453: The city as a whole. With a surface area of 2,023 hectares, the district is the city's largest. It is a bedroom community , home to 25% of the city's population but only the location of 9% of the city's workplaces. The area of Bümpliz has been a center of habitation since about the 5th century BC, as indicated by the presence of La Tène and Völkerwanderung burial grounds, as well as the remains of an extensive 1st century Roman villa at

5757-421: The city coat of arms. There he is called "Coburger Mohr" (English: "Coburg Moor" ). In the modern era, there has been debate surrounding Saint Maurice's race and physical depictions. The earliest surviving work portraying Maurice as a dark-skinned African dates from the 13th century. Before the 13th century, he was usually depicted with European features. The oldest surviving image that depicts Saint Maurice as

5858-529: The city were built by the Northern Ireland Housing Trust (NIHT) as part of overspill housing schemes, the first such development being the pair of point blocks in East Belfast's Cregagh estate. These eleven-story towers were completed in 1961 and were the first tall council housing blocks on the island of Ireland. The NIHT also designed the inner city Divis Flats complex. The six-to-eight-storey deck-access flats that comprised most of

5959-413: The collapse of Ronan Point in 1968. Although Tower blocks are controversial and numerous examples have been demolished, many still remain in large cities. Due to lack of proper regulation, some tower blocks present a significant fire risk and even though there have been efforts to make them more safe, modern safety precautions can be prohibitively expensive to retrofit. The Grenfell Tower fire in 2017

6060-401: The desert". The engineer's definition of high-rise buildings comes from the development of fire trucks in the late 19th century. Magirus had shown the first cogwheel sliding ladder in 1864. The first turntable ladder drawn by horses was developed in 1892 which had a length of 25 meters. The extension ladder was motorized by Magirus in 1904. The definition of a maximum of 22 meters for

6161-686: The emperor had them executed when they refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods. Maurice became a patron saint of the German Holy Roman Emperors . In 926, Henry the Fowler (919–936), even ceded the present Swiss canton of Aargau to the abbey, in return for Maurice's lance, sword and spurs. The sword and spurs of Maurice were part of the regalia used at coronations of the Austro-Hungarian emperors until 1916, and among

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6262-417: The exception of a statue from c. 1220, none has survived. During the 11th century, before art of Maurice began depicting him as visibly dark-skinned, he was seen as "the symbol of the Germanic offensive against the Slavs". Devisse argues that Frederick II likely initiated the "black St. Maurice" trope, around 1240-1250. As a military saint, Maurice played an important role for the Holy Roman Empire during

6363-455: The fall of the Berlin Wall, and some in buildings that survived World War II. In Western Europe, there are fewer high-rise buildings because of the historic city centres. In the 1960s, developers began demolishing older buildings to replace them with modern high-rise buildings. In Brussels there are numerous modern high-rise buildings in the Northern Quarter business district. The government of Belgium wants to recreate Washington, D.C. , on

6464-411: The favourite and most widely venerated saints of that martyred group. He is the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. According to the hagiographical material, Maurice was an Egyptian, born in AD 250 in Thebes , an ancient city in Upper Egypt that was the capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt (1575–1069 BC). He was brought up in the region of Thebes ( Luxor ). Maurice became

6565-431: The former Eastern Bloc countries, tower blocks built during the Soviet years make up much of the current housing estates and most of them were built in the specific socialist realist style of architecture that was dominant in the territories east of the Iron Curtain : blocky buildings of that era are colloquially known as Khrushchyovka . However, there were also larger and more ambitious projects built in Eastern Europe at

6666-544: The forms of Weilongwu (围龙屋) and Tulou (土楼), the latter are large, enclosed and fortified earth building, between three and five stories high and housing up to 80 families. The oldest still standing tulou dates back from the 14th century. High-rises were built in the Yemeni city of Shibam in the 16th century. The houses of Shibam are all made out of mud bricks , but about five hundred of them are tower houses , which rise five to sixteen stories high, with each floor having one or two apartments . This technique of building

6767-446: The highest floor was common in the building regulations at the time and it is still so today in Germany. The common height for turntable ladders did later go to 32 meters (100 feet), so that 30 meter is a common limit in some building regulations today, for example in Switzerland. Any building that exceeds the height of the usual turntable ladders in a city must install additional fire safety equipment, so that these high-rise buildings have

6868-437: The historical romances. Donald F. O'Reilly, in Lost Legion Rediscovered , argues that evidence from coins , papyrus , and Roman army lists support the story of the Theban Legion. Denis Van Berchem, of the University of Geneva , proposed that Eucherius' presentation of the legend of the Theban legion was a literary production, not based on a local tradition. The monastic accounts themselves do not specifically state that all

6969-411: The island of Great Britain , but taller high-rises are generally more common than in the Republic of Ireland. Most tower blocks and flat complexes are found in Belfast , although many of these have been demolished since the 1990s and replaced with traditional public housing units . The mid-rise Divis flats complex in west Belfast was built between 1968 and 1972. It was demolished in the early 1990s after

7070-493: The largest residential towers in Canada are found in Montreal , Toronto , and Vancouver ; the country's most densely populated cities. Toronto contains the second largest concentration of high-rise apartment buildings in North America (after New York). In Canada, like in other New World countries, but unlike Western Europe, most high-rise towers are located in the city centre (or "downtown"), where smaller, older buildings were demolished to make way in redevelopment schemes. In

7171-553: The likelihood of taller insulae collapsing. The lower floors were typically occupied by either shops or wealthy families, while the upper stories were rented out to the lower classes. Surviving Oxyrhynchus Papyri indicate that seven-story buildings even existed in provincial towns, such as in third century AD Hermopolis in Roman Egypt . In Arab Egypt , the initial capital city of Fustat housed many high-rise residential buildings, some seven stories tall that could reportedly accommodate hundreds of people. Al-Muqaddasi , in

7272-543: The most important insignia of the imperial throne (although the actual sword dates from the 12th century). In addition, some of the emperors were anointed before the Altar of Saint Maurice at St. Peter's Basilica . In 929, Henry the Fowler held a royal court gathering ( Reichsversammlung ) at Magdeburg . At the same time, the Mauritius Kloster in honour of Maurice was founded. In 961, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ,

7373-573: The north of the city, the iconic seven-tower complex in the New Lodge remains, although so too the problems that residents face, such as poor piping and limited sanitation. Farther north, the four tower blocks in Rathcoole dominate the local skyline, while in south Belfast, the tower blocks in Seymour Hill, Belvoir and Finaghy remain standing. Most of the aforementioned high-rise flats in

7474-723: The now demolished Unity Flats and the Weetabix Flats in the Shankill area), New Lodge was its only high-rise project in the inner city; there were three more in outlying areas of the city during the 1960s, two being in Mount Vernon in North Belfast and one being in the Clarawood estate, East Belfast. The Royal Hospital built three thirteen-story towers for use as staff accommodation, prominently located adjacent to

7575-432: The old Maurice at an inopportune moment, and also because of the financial costs involved". Images of the saint died out in the mid-16th century. Suckale-Redlefsen suggests that this was due to the developing Atlantic slave trade . "Once again, as in the early Middle Ages, the color black had become associated with spiritual darkness and cultural 'otherness ' ". There is an oil-on-wood painting of Maurice by Lucas Cranach

7676-846: The ongoing changes made to postwar housing estates since the 2000s in former communist countries vary – ranging from simply applying a new coat of paint to the previously grey exterior to thorough modernisation of entire buildings. In the European Union , among former Warsaw Pact states, a majority of the population lives in flats in Latvia (65.1%), Estonia (63.8%), Lithuania (58.4%), Czech Republic (52.8%), and Slovakia (50.3%) (as of 2014 , data from Eurostat ). However, not all flat dwellers in Eastern Europe live in Cold War-era blocks of flats; many live in buildings constructed after

7777-546: The population increased considerably, tower blocks have become more common. This time, however, the new tower blocks integrated shopping malls, parking systems, and other convenient facilities. Samsung Tower Palace in Seoul , South Korea, is the tallest apartment complex in Asia. In Seoul, approximately 80 percent of its residents live in apartment complexes which comprise 98 percent of recent residential construction. Seoul proper

7878-409: The residents demanded new houses due to mounting problems with their flats. Divis Tower , built separately in 1966, still stands, however; and in 2007 work began to convert the former British Army base at the top two floors into new dwellings. Divis Tower was for several decades Ireland's tallest residential building, having since being surpassed by the privately owned Obel Tower in the city centre. In

7979-505: The second floor", accomplished by folding concrete floor planes (like "bamboo mats," claims the firm), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard. In the larger towers, the two-story units are stacked slightly askew, adding to the visual interest of the variegated façades (Goldhagen 2012)." Housing in Japan includes various traits coming from different eras. The word danchi now either means an employer-provided housing or has

8080-518: The site of today's St. Maurce church. In medieval times and under the Ancien Régime , the dominion of Bümpliz – recorded as Pimpenymgis in 1016 and Bimplitz in 1235 – changed hands from the Empire to the lords of Bern and then numerous times among the patrician families of Bern, who built several palatial residences in Bümpliz. The municipality of Bümpliz, founded 1798 in the course of

8181-669: The skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces. None of these "functional, handsome, and humane high-rise residential buildings" are affordable housing . The 2012 Pritzker Prize was awarded to Chinese architect Wang Shu. Among his winning designs is the Vertical Courtyard Apartments, six 26-story towers by his architectural firm Amateur Architecture Studio built in Hangzhou. "These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, in which every inhabitant would enjoy "the illusion of living on

8282-508: The soldiers were collectively executed; the 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising wrote in his Chronica de duabus civitatibus that many of the legionaries escaped and only some were executed at Agaunum, though the others were later apprehended and put to death at Galliae Bonna and Colonia Aggripina . In 1907, Henri Leclercq noted that the account of Eucherius "has many excellent qualities, historical as well as literary." L. Dupaz countered Denis Van Berchem's assertion by sifting through

8383-610: The spear that pierced Jesus ' side on the cross. Maurice gives his name to the town St. Moritz as well as to numerous places called Saint-Maurice in French-speaking countries. The Indian Ocean island state of Mauritius was named after Maurice, Prince of Orange , and not directly after Maurice himself. Over 650 religious foundations dedicated to Saint Maurice can be found in France and other European countries. In Switzerland alone, seven churches or altars in Aargau , six in

8484-674: The tallest high-rise apartment building in the world is the Central Park Tower on Billionaires' Row in Midtown Manhattan , towering at 1,550 feet (470 m). Streets in the sky is a style of architecture that emerged in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Generally built to replace run-down terraced housing , the new designs included not only modern improvements such as inside toilets , but also shops and other community facilities within high-rise blocks. Examples of

8585-634: The tastes of the Baroque by Franz Ludwig von Erlach in 1632. The moat was filled and the palace partially demolished in 1742; a modern extension was added in 1979-80. Very close to the Old Palace, the Neues Schloss (New Palace) – a singular work in Bernese architectural history – was built in 1742 by Albrecht Türler for Daniel Tschiffeli . It housed a boys' school in the 19th century and

8686-473: The time, which have since become recognisable examples of post-war modernism ; such as the largest falowiec building in the Przymorze Wielkie district of Gdańsk , with a length of 860 m (2,821.52 ft) and 1,792 flats, it is the second longest housing block in Europe. In Romania , the mass construction of standardised housing blocks began in the 1950s and 1960s with the outskirts of

8787-565: The unit to be punished, Maximian had every tenth soldier killed, a military punishment known as decimation . More orders followed, the men refused compliance as encouraged by Maurice, and a second decimation was ordered. In response to the Theban Christians' refusal to attack fellow Christians, Maximian ordered all the remaining members of the legion to be executed. The place in Switzerland where this occurred, known as Agaunum ,

8888-481: The visibility of his most strikingly “different” subjects". Gude Suckale-Redlefsen gives another view on the subject, arguing instead that it wasn't Frederick who transformed Maurice into a "black man," but rather archbishop Alfred I of Käfernburg , after 1220, or his half-brother Wilbrand later on. Suckale-Redlefsen reasons that Alfred had read the Kaiserchronik which described Maurice as "the leader of

8989-592: The world's tallest skyscraper. However, with the movements of Postmodernism , New Urbanism , and New Classical Architecture , that established since the 1980s, a more classical approach came back to global skyscraper design, that is popular today. Other contemporary styles and movements in high-rise design include organic , sustainable , neo-futurist , structuralist , high-tech , deconstructivist , blob , digital , streamline , novelty , critical regionalist , vernacular , Art Deco (or Art Deco Nouveau ), and neohistorist , also known as revivalist . Currently,

9090-504: The worst reputations of any British social housing schemes and were marred by numerous design and practical problems. The ideal of Streets in the Sky often did not work in practice. Unlike an actual city street, these walkways were not thoroughfares, and often came to a dead end multiple storeys above the ground. They lacked a regular flow of passers-by, and the walkways and especially the stairwells could not be seen by anyone elsewhere, so there

9191-494: Was "turned" into a "black" or darker-skinned man to specify his geographic provenance with racial characteristics of color and physiognomy. Paul Kaplan, agreeing with Devisse's thesis, additionally argues that Frederick II also wanted to propagandistically emphasize how "All races are equal before God, and... the Christian mission is universal", and also that one of his goals was to "advance his claims to global rule by promoting

9292-522: Was building and enriching Magdeburg Cathedral , which he intended for his own tomb. To that end, in the year 961 of the Incarnation and in the 25th year of his reign, in the presence of all of the nobility, on the vigil of Christmas , the body of St. Maurice was conveyed to him at Regensburg along with the bodies of some of the saint's companions and portions of other saints. Having been sent to Magdeburg, these relics were received with great honour by

9393-407: Was devastated by the winds and flood waters of Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005; the copper-plated steeple was blown off the building. The church was subsequently deconsecrated in 2008, and the local diocese put it up for sale in 2011. By 2014, a local attorney had purchased the property for a local arts organization, after which the building served as both an arts venue and the worship space for

9494-620: Was dominated by large numbers of high-rising urban towers, which fulfilled defensive but also representative purposes. The residential Towers of Bologna numbered between 80 and 100 at a time, the largest of which still rise to 97.2 m. In Florence , a law of 1251 decreed that all urban buildings should be reduced to a height of less than 26 m, the regulation immediately put into effect. Even medium-sized towns such as San Gimignano are known to have featured 72 towers up to 51 m in height. The Hakka people in southern China have adopted communal living structures designed to be easily defensible in

9595-486: Was formally established in September 2008 as part of an ongoing major urban development programme. In 2006, the district had 31,343 inhabitants, 30% of which were foreigners, mostly South Eastern European nationals. This constitutes more than a third of Bern's entire foreign population. The apartment rents are the city's lowest, and 8.8% of the population received social welfare benefits in 2006, as compared to 4.6% in

9696-414: Was implemented to protect residents from Bedouin attacks. While Shibam has existed for around two thousand years, most of the city's houses date from the 16th century. The city has the tallest mud buildings in the world, some more than 30 meters (100 feet ) high. Shibam has been called "one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction" or " Manhattan of

9797-473: Was no deterrent to crime and disorder. There were no "eyes on the street" as advocated by Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities . The Unité d'Habitation in Marseille provides a more successful example of the concept, with the fifth floor walkway including a shop and café. Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist high-rise apartment buildings characterized by

9898-771: Was partly caused by council ignorance, as a local action group complained to the council about the fire hazards of the tower several years before the incident, yet remedial work had not been carried out. This fire further made tower blocks less desirable to British residents. There are old high-rise buildings built in the 1960s and 1970s in areas of London such as Tower Hamlets , Newham , Hackney , and virtually any area in London with council housing . Some new high-rises are being built in areas such as Central London , Southwark , and Nine Elms . In east London, some old high-rises are being gentrified, in addition to new high-rises being built in areas such as Stratford and Canary Wharf . The majority of residential high-rise buildings in

9999-475: Was restored in 1945 at the end of World War II . Today, the silhouette of Saint Maurice can be found mainly on manhole covers as well as the city coat of arms. There is a difference of opinion among researchers as to whether or not the story of the Theban Legion is based on historical fact, and if so, to what extent. The account by Eucherius of Lyon is classed by Bollandist Hippolyte Delehaye among

10100-579: Was the one to whom the nearby chapel was dedicated, that he would fetch her some water (before drawing some water out of a well she had not seen), that she should go down to a certain valley to escape the local guard and see the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus , and that Mary was both in Heaven and could appear on Earth . Maurice is the patron saint of the Duchy of Savoy (France) and of

10201-457: Was unavailable in post-war France. Residential tower blocks became standard in housing urban populations displaced by slum clearances and " urban renewal ". High-rise projects after World War II typically rejected the classical designs of the early skyscrapers , instead embracing the uniform international style ; many older skyscrapers were redesigned to suit contemporary tastes or even got demolished - such as New York's Singer Building , once

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