After this, Hubert gets his parents to understand that ritzy living isn't everything, and they move to a manageable tower block apartment.
The new residential housing in the microdistrict consisted almost exclusively of five-story prefabricated concrete block apartment buildings popularly known as khrushchyovkas.
Bialystok is now a grimy, sprawling, polluted, ugly industrial city scarred with large, dispiriting block apartment buildings for its rootless workers.
The ordinance would block apartment construction if the community plans call for those neighborhoods to remain zoned for single-family homes.
We had a wide view of another school, tower-block apartments, and a large natural-gas storage plant.
The movie is set, otherwise, in concrete-block apartments, in front of impromptu used-clothing displays strung on chain-link fences, on boulder-strewn gravel beaches.
Its most accomplished practitioners can be found in and around Giugliano, where concrete-block apartments abut orchards and car dealerships, and young African prostitutes stand amid the rushes on unkempt roads.
In a playground outside a shabby warren of cinder-block apartments in north Moscow, children play on swings and climbing bars as Stepan Zotov instructs a squad of teens in knife-throwing nearby.
We are working with groups of employers, apartment block by apartment block, setting up play centres where children can get together for a few hours a week.
