Preliminary findings suggest vibrations from four giant generators on the compound's upper floors triggered the collapse.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom house consists of three upper floors, each with its own apartment-like layout.
Upper floors offer stunning views of Hyde Park and, if you squint, Mr. Nilsson's arch rival.
Portland Hotel's owner has recently been refused permission to convert the upper floors into living accommodation.
Above the weathered-steel lower levels, the upper floors, also in steel and glass, are white and silver.
Had they stayed on the upper floors they would likely have survived the slow spreading fire, he said.
When those upper floors began to fall, they forced everything below them to collapse in a "piledriver" effect.
People trapped in upper floors of the buildings on that flooded street were waving flashlights to be saved.
Within a matter of hours he was moved to an ICU unit on the upper floors of the hospital.
Again, flexibility is vital, and this is reflected in the architecture: the wing's three upper floors are huge, suspended deck-like structures.
Colorful sheets of fabric were tied to upper floors of the wreckage, presumably so those inside could climb or slide down and escape.
The remaining state-owned enterprises are grey assemblies of middle-aged men and women, with retired former employees still living in company housing on upper floors.
The Refinery hotel at 63 W. 38th St. opened this week in a 1912 building that once housed a hat factory on its upper floors.
People were seen trying to escape the violence from the upper floors of the court buildings by breaking windows and climbing out of the buildings.
As thousands fled the searing flames and smoke of the Towers, Officer Barry was attempting to reach trapped and frightened workers on the upper floors.
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.
The idea is to turn the upper floors of the former warehouse near the new sail bridge into a site for new and fledgling firms while also offering combined living accommodation.
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But the upper floors also have clear potential to attract Brooklyn's growing technology sector with huge floor plates and views on four sides of Manhattan, Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn.
The upper floors bring together John Singer Sargent's paintings.
By then, fear had spread through the 3, 200 people who worked in the five clothing factories that jammed the upper floors of Rana Plaza, and the handful of shops on the lower ones.
Long Island resident Rudi Schlachter, who was forced to move her family to the upper floors of their home due to severe flooding last week, said she was evacuating the area altogether now.
From the upper floors, a programmer could see, in the distance, the pagoda roof of the main hall of Tofuku-ji, an eight-hundred-year-old Zen temple, rising over the trees at the edge of town.
Restaurants flock to the upper floors of high-rises where rent is cheaper, young professionals try to find bargain apartments in fringe areas and many bars shut down after a year because they can't make enough to pay the bills.
As the attack began in the early afternoon, one witness reported seeing six individuals enter a building under construction across from a military base on the outskirts of Kabul, and then start firing into the compound from the building's upper floors.
"Rana Plaza collapsed due to blatant violation of the building code, the use of substandard material and the operation of heavy machinery including generators on the upper floors, " Main Uddin Khandaker, a civil servant who led the panel, said in an interview.
Blocking the way up the stairs was a massive yellow iron metal door that sealed off access to the upper two floors of the house.
Its age may help explain the structure's main design flaw--inadequate insulation between the upper and lower floors.
As each quarter reported plummeting home values, the size of the home I could afford grew from a one-bedroom mobile home next to an industrial plant in a dangerous part New Brunswick to a four-bedroom fixer upper with no floors or structural support in Piscataway to 1945 three-bedroom colonial with brand-new carpets, freshly painted walls and a fenced in backyard in a safe neighborhood in Middlesex.
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