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high-rise building — a tall building with many stories; also, the construction of such buildings
A tall building with many floors — typically an office tower, condominium, hotel, or public building. Also refers to the activity or industry of constructing such buildings. In Japan the term is often used more or less interchangeably with 高層ビル, though 高層建築 has a slightly more technical or formal ring.
With the redevelopment in front of the station, new high-rise buildings are being built one after another.
Compound of 高層 ('many-storied, high-rise') and 建築 ('building, architecture, construction').
Usage
- Used both for the buildings themselves and for the act or field of constructing them, e.g., 高層建築技術 ('high-rise construction technology').
- In Japanese legal and technical usage, buildings over 60 meters are often formally classed as 超高層建築 ('super-high-rise'); the boundary between 高層 and 超高層 is not universally fixed.
- Widely used in news, architecture, urban planning, and real estate contexts.
Common collocations
- 高層建築が建つ: a high-rise is built/goes up
- 高層建築を建設する: to construct a high-rise
- 高層建築物: high-rise structure (another, more formal variant)
- 都市の高層建築: urban high-rise buildings
Similar words
- 高層ビル: high-rise (office) building — the everyday conversational equivalent.
- 超高層建築: super-high-rise / skyscraper — for especially tall buildings, often 100 m+.
- 低層建築: low-rise building — the direct antonym.
- 中層建築: mid-rise building — for buildings of intermediate height.
- 建築物: building, structure — the general term for any building.