A disused leisure centre where the apocalyptic movie High Rise was shot has been earmarked for a four-storey hotel development. The old Bangor Castle Leisure Centre site could make way for an ...

Unless you’re Steven Spielberg making Empire of the Sun, you’ll probably have issues translating J.G. Ballard to the screen. The only other notably mainstream (and I use that term very lightly here) ...

It stands 393ft high. A brutal mass of concrete and glass ­reaching up to the sky, designed as the answer to modern-day living. Trellick Tower opened in 1972 and was seen as the ultimate in high-rise ...

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Teaching assistant Jenny Mercurio, 39, laughs at the cast of ­characters in the High-Rise movie – but says there may be parallels with Trellick in terms of the class divide. The mum of three said: “A ...