But city officials were worried that banning cellphone towers on so-called institutional properties could drive telecommunications companies to seek out multi-family properties, such as apartment buildings and condominiums, or commercial properties.
The institutional thought always seems to favor "A Better Tower" (editorial, June 30), but perhaps there is a better idea for Lower Manhattan than a Freedom Tower -- one more acceptable to the public.
Grenfell Tower was rendered a "death trap" by institutional and societal indifference, the inquiry has heard.
She ruled out the most expensive, The Clare at Chicago's Water Tower, because she felt it was too institutional.
John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, said: "The same pattern of institutional inaction and negligence that led to the Grenfell Tower fire has typified the government's response since.
It had a memorable Charles Addams mansard tower, and here began my devotion to 19th-century institutional buildings.
He did a few towers, none of which were great, and several institutional buildings, few of which equalled his best houses.
Currently, building-mounted towers are allowed with a conditional-use permit on institutional properties — churches, hospitals, libraries, government buildings and other public facilities — in single-family-residential zones.
Institutional investors had already changed the market for commercial real estate and apartment towers.
He meant well, but to a grown Caperton these designs were rather Cabrini-Green-ish, huge and institutional, as though Larry meant to warehouse the local jays and sparrows in balsa-wood towers of utter marginalization.
