High Rise

I love the lines of freeway bridges and high-rise buildings. ❋ Amy Bernays (2011)

In the southern coastal city of Pusan, a woman named Jin-suk Kim has been confining herself in a high-rise crane for nearly eight months. ❋ Iara Lee (2011)

With that information, Montgomery police said, they found Davidson at the wheel of her Lexus SUV in the parking garage of her Chevy Chase residence, a high-rise apartment building at 4601 North Park Ave. ❋ Paul Duggan (2010)

A concrete-heavy product of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, Southwest Washington is defined by high-rise apartment blocks, federal office buildings, and modernist-looking townhouses and churches. ❋ Derek Kravitz (2010)

Mr. Metcalf: We should create a zone for [commercial] high-rise expansion next to downtown San Francisco in [the South of Market neighborhood] to channel jobs away from suburban office parks. ❋ Cari Tuna (2011)

The Chicago air show was on so as we walked into Sugar's, the Air Force Thunderbirds were jetting by the high-rise windows, almost in a tipped-wing salute to Larry. ❋ Sugar Rautbord (2011)

CAIRO Reuters - Ahmed al-Shahat clambered up the facade of Israel's high-rise Cairo embassy, scaling over 21 floors, to pull down the flag of the Jewish state and replace it with Egypt's national colors. ❋ Reuters (2011)

This was a trick he had to master in Rinse's high-rise beginnings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 2004, the city rezoned the area to pave the way for high-rise residential buildings and to upgrade its retail corridors. ❋ Joseph De Avila (2011)

The vehicle police were investigating was tracked to a high-rise apartment building in Chevy Chase, Channel 4 reported. ❋ Debbi Wilgoren (2010)

Environmentalists or preservationists are upset that some important buildings or parts of Moscow have been torn down to put up high-rise, glass steel structures, he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Vancouver invented a gracious form of high-rise residential living, with narrow towers surrounded by town-homes and wonderful attention paid to the streetscape." ❋ Cari Tuna (2011)

Within two years there were laws about automatic sprinklers in high-rise buildings, mandatory fire drills in large businesses, requirements for doors being unlocked and swinging outward. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

Steel-frame "earthquake-proof" buildings suffered severe damage, resulting in new design and construction standards for high-rise buildings. ❋ Cari Tuna (2011)