apartment blocks

On the outskirts of every city I saw, there was a veritable forest of apartment blocks under construction.

Among the equally tatty shops and apartment blocks, a woman dog-walker was hurling stones at a gang of strays that were menacing her pet.

The architects of this city's gleaming apartment blocks and office towers did not anticipate gunfire.

Washing is still hanging on the balconies of destroyed apartment blocks and a child's textbooks lie scattered on the floor.

It was designed specifically to link planned new supermarkets, shopping malls and apartment blocks for a growing population.

In cities across the country, the results can be seen in forests of half-built apartment blocks, stadiums and convention centres.

That pushes people toward the rented apartment blocks which predominate in city centres, especially when, as in Berlin, rents are very low.

Tens of thousands of others are building railroads, power plants, airports, cement factories, apartment blocks, and official buildings.

even by Chinese standards it has an endless number of construction cranes building an endless number of apartment blocks.

The system is best suited for apartment blocks which can provide a captive source of raw material, according to its designer, A Mohan.

Moscow authorities have decided to replace a village outside MKAD with high-rise apartment blocks.

accepting in the darkness of towering shapes of apartment blocks my face turned to yours-lit by the sun's finalgleams.

So all over China, new apartment blocks are bereft of lights at night. They stand largely empty.

A few outdoor cafes and street vendors have popped up near government apartment blocks, along with karaoke bars.

Illulissat, a few hundred houses and apartment blocks scattered around a charming fishing harbour, is breathtaking.

In Mumbai, shanty towns breed resentment among street dwellers starving next to the luxury apartment blocks of the rich.

And because everyone lives in apartment blocks, the inhabitants are more crammed in than English cities.

In Fuling, scores of crumbling tenements and grey, dank houses are slowly being demolished and replaced with swanky new apartment blocks.

As several apartment blocks leveled by the earthquake, rescue workers are scrambling to pull out survivors.

But later, walking in the wasteland between the new apartment blocks, Czeslaw was less friendly.

escalators and lifts have replaced conventional stairs in shopping centers, offices and apartment blocks.

Even the sheet-glass of modern office and apartment blocks was unbroken, despite the alarming swaying they suffered.

Single-family homes were torn down and replaced with apartment blocks.

New apartment blocks and office towers are rising along the riverfront.

The capital, Tskhinvali, is a mess of crumbling apartment blocks, their facades pocked with bullet holes.

Across China, money continues to flow into apartment blocks, gleaming office towers and shopping malls.

On one side was the Mediterranean, on the other the mountains, and everywhere were apartment blocks crammed with tax-dodgers.

For many Chinese, replacing old and dirty houses with well-equipped apartment blocks seems entirely appropriate.

Cities like Paris have large apartment blocks. In newer cities they don't have listings, so they just replace old buildings.

A visit to one social-housing complex in eastern Beijing, Zhuxin Homes, finds several luxury cars parked around its apartment blocks.

the apartment blocks they wish to build (with foreign aid) will force Kyrgyz and Uzbeks to mix.

South of the city centre as many as 50 high-rise apartment blocks are under construction, creating a vast new neighbourhood.

In Shajaiyeh, east of Gaza City, Israeli troops seized control of three apartment blocks and set up gun positions on the rooftops.

Its shock waves spread through L'Aquila, shaking to the ground a hotel and several apartment blocks.

Pristine high-rise apartment blocks stand in rows, their new windows glinting in the subtropical sun.

Almost all Singaporeans lived as small nuclear families in these apartment blocks.

Others descend from tilting apartment blocks, with plastic "children" strapped to their backs.

In Chongqing's northern New District, rows upon rows of apartment blocks stand where five years ago there were only fields.

hotels and apartment blocks face the streets , not surrounded by other buildings.

Much farmland has been eaten away by apartment blocks, highways and golf courts.

New apartment blocks and office buildings appear with few new occupiers to pay for them.

That is why so many apartment blocks stand empty: rental yields do not matter.

late-night parties in apartment blocks.

People lived in apartment blocks with doormen and drove to restaurants in imported cars.

JRF currently owns 60 commercial properties while LJR owns a total 21 buildings including 10 office buildings and 6 apartment blocks.

Yes, and there are many houses nearby. I like the neighborhood isn't full of apartment blocks.

Yes, and there are many houses nearby. I like it that the neighbourhood isn't full of apartment blocks.

Soviet-Style Apartment Blocks in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

accepting in the darkness of towering shapes of apartment blocks

accepting in the darkness of towering shapes of apartment blocks my face

Apartment blocks are adorned with cultish posters of Ramzan: with his father;

Hong Kong, China: An aerial view of residential apartment blocks