Elwood McIlwraith, 29, was working for a fitness company and living in a high rise apartment in the Jumeirah Lakes Towers district of the city.
In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.
Into a high-rise apartment steps a domestic help who has been engaged to spring clean.
In particular, the city has expanded to the north, where more affordable modern high-rise apartment complexes have emerged, complete with gyms and swimming pools.
Men and women sat separately in front of a large stage that had been erected on a plot of wasteland between high-rise apartment buildings.
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.
The Philippine vice president has temporarily shifted residence from her luxury high-rise apartment back to the sprawling house in Makati's tony Forbes Park neighborhood where she grew up.
His Metropole Hotel, whose interior fittings still feature a Sassoon family emblem with its two greyhounds, rises at a nearby intersection -- across from its twin, Hamilton House, built by Sir Victor as a hybrid office building and high-rise apartment house.
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There are high-rise apartment buildings with sick or elderly residents trapped in their freezing homes without enough food, water or medication who are unable to walk up and down several or dozens of flights of stairs to get what they need.
However, the entire landscape has changed and hundreds of high-rise hotel buildings, apartment blocks and restaurants have mushroomed in the area.
"It's not cheap, but the location is good, " she says of the apartment in a high-rise building in a residential district north of the Shanghai Bund.
He was born on April 22, 1992, less than four months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and grew up in a tidy apartment in a typically dingy Moscow high-rise.
How many people were living in these four units - four apartment units before Katrina, these four high-rise complexes?
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On the condo side, a series of high-rise homes gracing the Miami Beach coastline have consecutively shattered apartment records since late 2011.
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Le Corbusier's were wrecked by the adoption of high rises for human habitation - something he never envisaged, believing that most people should live in comparatively low-rise apartment buildings.
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