Editing Tower block (section)

===Asia===
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[[File:Whitefield Panorama.jpg|thumb|center|800px|Modern panorama of [[Whitefield, Bangalore]] in India]]

Residential tower complexes are common in Asian countries such as China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan, Iran and South Korea, as urban densities are very high. In [[Singapore]] and urban [[Hong Kong]], land prices are so high that a large portion of the population lives in high-rise apartments. In fact, over 60% of Hong Kong residents live in apartments, many of them [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s. Of them in 2020, 2,112,138 were identified residents of public housing,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hong Kong Housing Authority|date=31 March 2021|title=香港房屋委員會年報|trans-title=Hong Kong Housing Authority Annual Report|url=https://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/mini-site/haar2021/en/common/pdf/1_Key_Figures_ENTC.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204121524/https://www.housingauthority.gov.hk/mini-site/haar2021/en/common/pdf/1_Key_Figures_ENTC.pdf|archive-date=4 February 2022|access-date=4 February 2022|website=housingauthority.gov.hk/}}</ref> which is 28% of the total population.

[[Sarah Williams Goldhagen]] (2012) celebrated the work of innovative architecture firms such as WOHA (based in Singapore), Mass Studies (based in Seoul), Amateur Architecture Studio (based in [[Hangzhou, China]]), and the New York City-based Steven Holl in the transformation of residential towers into "vertical communities" or "vertical cities in the sky" providing aesthetic, unusually designed silhouettes on the skyline, comfortable private spaces and attractive public spaces. None of these "functional, handsome, and humane high-rise residential buildings" are [[affordable housing]].<ref name=Goldhagen>
{{cite news
|first=Sarah | last = Williams Goldhagen|author-link1=Sarah Williams Goldhagen
|title= Living High
|newspaper=New Republic
|url=http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103329/highrise-skyscraper-woha-gehry-pritzker-architecture-megalopolis?page=0,1
|date=18 May 2012
|access-date=28 June 2012
}}
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{{cite web
|last=Meinhold | first = Bridgette
|title=2012 Pritzker Prize Awarded to Wang Shu – First Chinese Architect to Win the Award
|url=http://inhabitat.com/2012-pritzker-prize-awarded-to-wang-shu-first-chinese-architect-to-win-the-award/
|date=25 May 2012
|website=inhabitat.com
|access-date=28 June 2012
}}
</ref>

====China====
[[File:山大乐水居小区.jpg|thumb|A modern ''[[xiaoqu]]'' in the city of [[Qingdao]]]]

The 2012 Pritzker Prize was awarded to Chinese architect Wang Shu. Among his winning designs is the Vertical Courtyard Apartments, six 26-story towers by his architectural firm Amateur Architecture Studio built in Hangzhou.<ref name=Meinhold /> "These towers were designed to house two-story apartments, in which every inhabitant would enjoy "the illusion of living on the second floor", accomplished by folding concrete floor planes (like "bamboo mats," claims the firm), so that every third story opens into a private courtyard. In the larger towers, the two-story units are stacked slightly askew, adding to the visual interest of the variegated façades (Goldhagen 2012)."<ref name=Goldhagen />

==== Japan ====
[[File:Grace_tower01s3200.jpg|thumb|[[Okayama prefecture]] "mansions"]]

[[Housing in Japan]] includes various traits coming from different eras. The word ''[[danchi]]'' now either means an employer-provided housing or has a meaning similar to "[[Public housing|projects]]". For modern hi-rises, there are two [[wasei-eigo|borrowed]] words to make a distinction:

* "''Apaato''" (アパート）is used to describe a rather small apartment, initially made to be rented;
* a large, modern apartment would be a "''mansion''" (マンション). The "mansion" nickname is used for both residential towers and for individual condominium apartments (for being roomy, spacey enough to compare to detached houses).

====South Korea====
In South Korea, the tower blocks are called Apartment Complex ({{Lang|ko|아파트 단지}}). The first residential towers began to be built after the [[Korean War]]. The South Korean government needed to build many apartment complexes in the cities to be able to accommodate the citizens. In the 60 years since, as the population increased considerably, tower blocks have become more common. This time, however, the new tower blocks integrated shopping malls, parking systems, and other convenient facilities.

[[Samsung Tower Palace]] in [[Seoul]], South Korea, is the tallest apartment complex in Asia.

In Seoul, approximately 80 percent of its residents live in apartment complexes which comprise 98 percent of recent residential construction.<ref>{{cite book
|chapter-url=http://www.holcimfoundation.org/portals/1/docs/f07/wk-norm/f07-wk-norm-cho02.pdf
|chapter=Two Houses in Seoul
|first=Minsuk | last = Cho
|title=Urban Trans Formation
|editor-first1=Ilka | editor-last1 = Ruby | editor-first2 = Andreas | editor-last2 = Ruby
|publisher=Ruby Press
|year=2008
|page=25
|access-date=28 June 2012
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828234827/http://www.holcimfoundation.org/Portals/1/docs/F07/WK-Norm/F07-WK-Norm-cho02.pdf
|archive-date=28 August 2011
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> Seoul proper is noted for its [[population density]], eight times greater than [[Rome]], though less than [[Manhattan]] and Paris. Its metropolitan area is the densest in the [[OECD]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Hankyoreh|url=http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/393438.html|title=Seoul ranks highest in population density among OECD countries|date=15 December 2009}}</ref>