Especially hard hit were relatively new apartment blocks and buildings erected during the recent boom.
His Mori Trust owns office buildings, apartment blocks and hotels in high-rent districts of Tokyo.
Everybody walks, often alone and silent, down green boulevards, past huge white apartment blocks.
Such progress could start by fitting valves to the radiators in the country's apartment blocks.
Soon there was a thick black pall of smoke hanging low over the apartment blocks and minarets.
Their slogans adorn apartment blocks and walls in the city and are emblazoned across hills and fields in the country.
It's a neighborhood of concrete apartment blocks in narrow streets choked with honking cars and gangs of teenagers.
Youths convicted of loitering in stairwells or the entries to apartment blocks now face two months in prison.
Increased investment has also lead to the new construction of apartment blocks and commercial buildings all over the city.
Huge factories, huge apartment blocks, I don't think everyone lives happily ever after.
In Istanbul, the country's biggest city, hundreds of apartment blocks were literally pulverised by the impact of the tremor.
Busloads of tourists give the scene a surreal commercial streak, while apartment blocks lend a domestic touch here and there.
He still lives in one of the old apartment blocks, and doesn't know or care when he will be rehoused.
Now, near a vast pit on the edge of the city, elderly residents sit near their new five-storey apartment blocks.
Desperate for fresh air, he tore down churches and apartment blocks in a now-lauded attempt to give the city breathing room.
However, the entire landscape has changed and hundreds of high-rise hotel buildings, apartment blocks and restaurants have mushroomed in the area.
As I walk back towards the hostel, I think I hear the Rocky theme floating down from one of the apartment blocks.
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Modern offices, hotels and apartment blocks are sprouting up behind, replacing the pretty pink-and-white colonial buildings, drab crumbling flats and teeming shanty-towns.
Solar parks have migrated from farms and family houses to apartment blocks.
Defaced by modern shopping malls, it pours into six old streets where stunning neo-classical mansions mix with an odd bunch of Soviet apartment blocks.
The densely populated city was ravaged by severe acute respiratory syndrome in the 2003 outbreak that killed 299 people locally and affected whole apartment blocks.
Sunday's fire broke out amid a group of apartment blocks on the 2km-long Trunk of the island, which is shaped like a date palm tree.
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Its officers began to search people, pretty much at random and often with little cause, on the streets, in housing estates and in apartment blocks.
In particular, institutional investors are attracted by the prospect of having apartment blocks built to their own specification, then enjoying the steady stream of rental income.
Unlike Kobe, full of old, ramshackle buildings and shoddily constructed apartment blocks, Tokyo and other cities, including Sendai which was badly hit, have brought in new restrictions.
Along with neighbouring Prenzlauer Berg, which has the same late-Victorian apartment blocks and spacious flats, Mitte has been gentrified right out of the urban pioneer's pocket book.
Beyond, the city rose in layers of steep hillsides jammed with high-rise apartment blocks, the remnants of a Portuguese fort, and lush groves of Chinese banyan trees.
First, Israel's supreme court has given him to July 1st to demolish five apartment blocks that Jewish settlers have built north of Ramallah, the Palestinians' administrative headquarters, without government approval.
Professor Robert Johnston, of the department of environmental studies at the University of California campus in Davis, a Sacramento suburb, says the area could comfortably take more people if it had more apartment blocks and condominiums.
The catch is that property developers are turning the decrepit buildings, abandoned when most businesses fled a crime-wave for the northern suburbs in the early 1990s, into swanky apartment blocks, and property prices have been rocketing.
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