Most houses were one storey, box shaped and minimally decorated, with music playing through the open windows even though no one seemed to be home.
Originally a one-storey log chalet, its location alongside the emerald-coloured lake triggered swift expansion to meet demand from visitors.
Amelia Cerezero, who lives in a one-storey cement shack in the village, looks after her five-year old grandniece.
All that reminds us of the cosmonaut in Klushino is the sagging road sign with peeling, discoloured paint, and an old one-storey house.
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The towns, little more than administrative centres with a church, a hospital and a few one-storey government buildings, have been looted and wrecked.
Many more, though, have been converted over the years into a ramshackle collection of cramped, one-storey homes, accessed via the narrowest of winding pathways.
While a number of yanglou mansions fuse eastern and western styles, a typical dwelling is more traditionally southern Chinese in appearance: one-storey with a red brick facade and topped with overhanging eaves.
It is located one block west of the new 104-storey One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower).
This enormous strain is one reason why a 10-storey tower with three men in the base was only managed for the first time in 1998.
One sign that the gorgeous eight-storey, sugar-white hotel has kept up with the times: free high-speed Internet access in all rooms.
In other words, a five-storey pagoda contains not even one pillar that travels right up through the building to carry the structural loads from the top to the bottom.
One eyewitness described the flames coming from the four storey Eastgate Backpackers Hostel as "horrendous".
One hand-painted sign leads to a two-storey restaurant facing a dunebacked beach.
Since they are built on to a flat wafer, rather than etched out of it, layers of vertical transistors could even be constructed on top of one another, raising the intriguing possibility of multi-storey semiconductors.
Ms Harper, of Stoke-on-Trent, was also trapped, while her twin sister Marjorie Brys was one of more than 90 people who escaped the four-storey hotel.
It wants to demolish the building instead and replace it with an eight-storey modern apartment block with a total of 24 one and two-bed apartments for rent.
No-one has been convicted of the car bombing which destroyed the seven-storey cultural centre.
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Brightly painted two- and three-storey homes line the hillsides to this day, giving Valparaiso one of the most distinctive panoramas this side of San Francisco.
It has not been disputed that the Manchester United defender and Ms Storey first met as teenagers in the 1990s and had at one time been close, but had drifted apart even before Mr Ferdinand moved to Leeds in 2000.
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But the problems are exacerbated in the multi-storey chips which IBM, as well as others, believe offer "one of the most promising approaches" for building future processors.
One of its most notable features is the tallest building in Wales, the 29-storey Meridian Tower.
The three-storey mansion was built by coal tycoon John Cory in 1893 and is considered to be one of the most important houses of its period.
Rooms are appointed in warm stained wood and leather with brass trimmings, have big walk-in showers, free wi-fi, Illy espresso makers and huge picture windows (ask for one overlooking 57th Street or for a Park View room on the highest floors of the 29-storey tower).
Development of the four storey building, that was largely destroyed by a fire in 2007, will include three bars, one with a dance floor, a food hall, an internet cafe and a roller disco area.
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