They were assessing the needs of home-bound elderly and disabled residents--many reliant on food stamps and other government aid -- at two high rise complexes known as Nordeck and Ocean Village, and documenting them on oak tag charts hung on the walls of the group's headquarters.
In the high rises, complexes, and condos of modern New York, your neighbors tend to exist mostly as names on buzzers.
"We wanted to live in a neighborhood, versus a high-rise complex surrounded by other high-rise complexes".
The 46-building high-rise complex, built atop a landfill, has its own power plant, public schools, shopping center, garages, recreation center and indoor pool.
This sixth-floor apartment, built in 2008, is in a high-rise complex in the center of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.
Unable to return to Ms. Drakeford's apartment, Mr. Perez decided to seize another apartment in the same building at the Dyckman Houses, a high-rise complex that is operated by the city's Housing Authority, investigators said.
But the community has managed a self-reinvention — beginning in earnest in the late 1990s with the redevelopment of a run-down '40s-era high-rise complex called Parkview Apartments.
Projects can move slowly in Japan, and Roppongi Hills and Mr. Mori's first big high-rise complex, Ark Hills, which opened in 1986, each took 17 years to complete.
She lives in a federally subsidized high-rise complex in Brooklyn on the border of East New York and Canarsie, two struggling neighborhoods just blocks from where she grew up.
Perhaps the most successful of the Smithson team's buildings was the Economist Building Group in St. James's, Westminster, in London (completed 1964), a miniaturized high-rise complex integrated into the fabric of the surrounding neighbourhood.
A small island in Long Island Sound where several projects have failed in the last three decades -- including proposals for a nuclear power plant and a Trump high-rise complex -- will become a public park for Westchester County, officials announced today.
