The unstable nature of the ground dictated that houses were no higher than two storeys.
Ten storeys high, these wind-swept piles rise from the sea and abut steep, rocky cliffs.
"Maybe not 100 storeys, maybe people will think twice about going over 50, " says Marco Goldschmeid.
Muse Developments plans a development comprising linked buildings, the tallest of which would be 10 storeys.
One local resident told the Associated Press the building was only supposed to have four storeys.
It would create three storeys of open-plan office space, leaving the original building untouched.
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Another eyewitness said he saw flames engulfing the building between the third and fifth storeys.
But it would mean, if not a city of high-rise living, then buildings of several storeys.
They seems to have wire mesh on either side and it was probably about two storeys up.
The very best rooms are the 65sqm Maisonettes, which are divided into two storeys including a living room and bedroom.
Wooden buildings with two or three storeys today must have through-pillars connecting the roof firmly to the foundations.
They are in buildings of no more than three storeys, so there is no need for expensive structural works.
The new building is to have 70 storeys of office space, funded using insurance payments from the Twin Towers.
When he was alive, the concrete structure, buried four storeys underground, was air-conditioned.
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Yet 50 storeys -- the height of Britain's biggest and best-known block -- is still too high for some workers.
The 34 storeys are divided into three blocks, and high floors have views of the city skyline and across the Bosphorus.
Coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) can rise more than 35 storeys above the ground, reaching heights of up to 380 feet (116m).
Gunfire and explosions were reported from the upper storeys of the building.
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The new development will be 280m long and stand three storeys high.
The student flats will be built in blocks of up to 10 storeys on the site of the now demolished Josephine Butler House.
Another feature that makes a pagoda unlike a tree is that, curiouser and curiouser, its individual storeys are not actually attached to one another.
If approved, the student flats will be built in blocks of up to 10 storeys on the site of the now demolished Josephine Butler House.
Designed and built by owners Nikos and Fotini, each has three storeys, with magnificent views of the Aegean Sea from the bedrooms on the upper floors.
More will follow if developers win tussles with city planners to build two skyscrapers one of 51 storeys, the other 40 storeys on the banks of the Mersey.
"I wouldn't be doing films without the festival, " says Eric Khoo, whose 12 Storeys was invited to screen in a non-competitive section at Cannes this year.
Today, travellers from all over the world visit Rome to explore its 600km network of catacombs, spread out over five storeys underground near the Park of the Tombs of Via Latina.
Nor was it the silvery inflated sphere, ten storeys high and fitted with giant propane burners, in which in 2002 he had made the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by balloon.
It also submitted plans for the Island Point site on Westferry Road, which include three-storey townhouses and maisonettes along with apartment buildings which would be from three to five storeys high.
The sheathing has not been used in the UK since the 1980s and codes in the United States specifically prohibit their use in buildings of more than three or four storeys, he said.
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