Towers in the park
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Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist high rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building surrounded by a swath of landscaped land. Thus, the tower does not directly front th
The Penn South cooperative (1962) in Manhattan.
Cabrini-Green (1957 now demolished) in Chicago at ground level
St. James Town in Toronto (1964-71)
Debney Meadows (Flemington Estate) (1962–1965) in Melbourne.
Ballymun Flats
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The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun High-tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7
Joseph Plunkett tower with the Sillogue Road flats in the background.
A Ballymun street scene with some of the tower blocks visible in the distance, circa late-1990s.
The eight-storey flats contained two different designs, one where the lift was located opposite the stairwell (pictured right) and an alternative design where the lift was located on the same side as the stairwell, as seen here on Sillogue Road, the four-storey Sillogue Avenue can be seen in the middle.
Connolly tower.