apartment tower

Tall dwelling building

A tall residential building containing many individual apartments, typically rising ten or more stories.

The term emphasizes verticality—apartment towers dominate urban skylines and pack housing density into limited ground space.

The new apartment tower downtown has forty floors.

Sometimes called a high-rise or tower block.

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housing density and structure

apartment towersingle-family home

Freestanding residential dwelling

detached house · cottage · bungalow · ranch house · farmhouse

building height

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Few floors only

basement apartment

urban vs. rural settlement pattern

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Dwelling on agricultural land

rural homestead · country house · cabin · ranch · off-grid home

Family

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