Ayse Balko

At the Parkway Towers in Leeds, a concrete slab fall from one of the high floors to the ground.  When I went to Parkway Grange, and amazed by the astonishing view from the roof.   At this article, you will find  brief information about Parkway Grange,  block towers in ancient times,  block towers in UK and main building material of Brutalist architecture, concrete. PARKWAY GRANGE TOWERS A seventeen storey H-plan tower block (Parkway Grange Tower) and two fifteen-storey tower blocks built as public housing.  Seventeen-storey block contains 99 dwellings, fifteen-storey blocks contain 88 + 88 = 176 dwellings in total.  Construction was approved by committee in 1965and finished in 1967. The primary use of the Parkway Grange Tower is residential. 47m roof height, 17-storey (floor) H-plan. Construction was approved by committee in 1965 and completed in 1967. Address and area:  1-100 Brooklands Crescent, Killingbeck , Seacroft, Lee...

When I arrived in Sheffield, I lived above a pub for 3 months then in a council flat with my former partner. The council flat looked like a match box. It was surprisingly spacious yet still was very oppressive and suppressive. On the first night my bike was stolen. There were only the poor living in these council flats and the flats were making me much more depressed. I started hide inside and possible haven't talked to anybody as long as we live there which was a couple years. TOWER BLOCKS IN ANCIENT TIMES High-rise apartment buildings had already appeared in antiquity ,  in ancient Roma and in the Roman Empire, some of  reached up to ten or more storeys, one reportedly having 200 stairs. Arab Egypt  initial capital city,  Fustat housed many high-rise residential buildings, some seven stories tall , could accommodate hundreds of people.  some of them rising up to 14 storeys with roof gardens on the top storey complete with ox-drawn w...