Modern dwelling

Usage examples of highrise.

Then he and Weldi went to Central News, a highrise in the middle of Media Village.

Most villages consisted of one or two towering professional buildings surrounded by modestly highrise apartments for the people who worked there.

There were a few larger structures among all the plastic huts and frosted bulges a multitiered branch of the Bank of Neptune, a highrise hotel called the Ice Palace, a tremendous igloo bearing the crystalline logo of the interplanetary ice consortium, a massive cube made out of giant logs that could only be the headquarters of Cometary Lumber Multicorp.

In an obviously disguised voice the caller had suggested that Lanagan ought to go down to the place where they were putting up the new Westside Highrise building and talk to some people.

The limousine moved swiftly, using the Lunalilo and Moanalua freeways and passing downtown Honolulu with its modern highrise buildings.

For kilometer after kilometer, the highrises of Queens and Brooklyn blazed like pillars of fire.

Wooded slopes dipped to grassland, then to the sprawling expanse of Vancouver, its expensive highrises contrasting with underground shopping centers, sleek subdivisions, and landscaped homes.

Using a pile of street rubble as a ramp we surged up over the back of a transfer cab onto the roofs of ordinary traffic, joining a second level bright in the sunlight between highrises, our weight so broadly distributed we rode over the mass of Nomad rigs without crushing them.

He was lazying in the highest hole in his cottonwood highrise with just his nose poking from his pillow of a tail, dreaming about flying.