1.   At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.

2.   For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.

3.   Almost all the buildings stand vacant, as do clusters of white apartment towers on the islands of Taipa and Coloane.

4.   After a decade-long drought in new construction, downtown Chicago is suddenly awash in new luxury apartment towers.

5.   Demolition for the new apartment tower and theaters began last week by the builders, Daniel Brodsky, Robert Quinlan and Michael Field.

6.   Gleaming luxury hotels and apartment towers went up in a frenzy of speculation, along with branches of Parisian fashion houses.

7.   Ho did slip once, years ago, while erecting a bamboo scaffold on a luxury apartment tower on Victoria Peak, which rises above the city.

8.   Hundreds of buildings are being leveled for apartment towers, malls and college dormitories.

9.   Hundreds of buildings are being leveled for apartment towers, shopping malls and college dormitories.

10.   Instead, Burger King, Ace Hardware and a concrete canyon of apartment towers dominate the landscape, beacons of a more prosaic lifestyle.