Low-rise houses, however, being substantially cheaper to build than high-rise.
Adaptations were required in an area where the residents have come to terms with high-rise living and the local 'atrocious beauty'.
Some buildings are built very high, and we call them high-rise buildings.
During the 1980s only four high-rise buildings were built, varying in height from 30 to 50 metres.
There is still much to study if there is to be any chance of skybridges becoming a reality in high-rise design.
Only three buildings exceeded 10 metres in height and, although less than 40 metres, they were considered to be high-rise buildings at the time.
The flow of questions followed mainly the problems that might arise as a result of erecting a high-rise building.
It established the notion that high-rise building was not the outcome of land shortage, but of particular relationships between site and building volume.