There are a number of medium rise buildings in the downtown area.

The city has plans to construct even more medium rise buildings in the future.

Medium rise buildings tend to have six floors, without elevators.

Hydraulic jacks are often used to lift elevators in low and medium rise buildings.

Machine room-less elevators have become a welcome alternative to the older hydraulic elevator for low to medium rise buildings.

The Cultural Palace of Nationalities - Located on the north side of West Chang'an Avenue, the Nationalities Cultural Palace is a medium rise building incorporating traditional Chinese design elements.

Ms. Quinn and Mr. Duane, in a letter to a lawyer for the developers, James Spitzer Jr., said the height of the proposed development would make it "tower over the West Village community, dwarfing the low to medium rise buildings and negatively impacting on the character of the neighborhood."

Several mid-rise buildings were also planned around the base of both towers.

Despite this, low- and mid-rise buildings were beginning construction.

In some areas, mid-rise buildings are now required.

On the other hand, no one doubts that outside Manhattan, new mid-rise buildings in most locations must provide some parking.

The area around the site consists mostly of low to mid-rise buildings with small commercial businesses on ground level and residential spaces above.

Most of the structures - a mix of town houses and mid-rise buildings up to seven stories - will be new.

The mid-rise building achieves a scale appropriate for many parts of New York, planners say.

The mid-rise building also offers the city government a new model in its ambitious, multibillion-dollar subsidized housing program.

An undefined mid-rise building is shown on that block in the Libeskind rendering.

It carved out eight blocks for mid-rise buildings with 2,000 condominiums, shops and restaurants.

Ensenada is predominantly a mid-rise building beach city.

The mid-rise building, located downtown, has 114 apartment units that are accessible to people with disabilities and also meet the needs of the elderly.

Only 12 of the 38 co-op apartments in a mid-rise building adjoining them were sold before the sponsors stopped the bidding.

The one- to three-bedroom units, averaging 1,100 square feet, will be in two mid-rise buildings above a parking garage.

That phase, which is being designed, will consist of single family homes, town houses and time-share units in mid-rise buildings.

The development plan calls for a central suburban centre made up of mid-rise building and commercial development surrounded by multiple residential neighborhoods.

On many streets in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, these mid-rise buildings are the standard.

Some will be condominium apartments in mid-rise buildings like Bay Plaza Gardens.

Similarly, requiring new mid-rise buildings in the boroughs to include low-rent units will chill development just when the city needs it most.

Ms. Wylde said her organization has decided to delay three mid-rise buildings in Harlem that would contain 800 apartments.

The developer was local businessman Steve Belkin, who also owns an adjoining mid-rise building, which would have been torn down as part of the project.

NCC's "Homes" family housing complex was finally built as a series of five-story mid-rise buildings surrounding a center courtyard.

There are multiple public improvements and high-rise and mid-rise buildings under construction or approved and scheduled for construction.

But even in the midst of an economic downturn, the mid-rise building is making a comeback, spurred by new zoning rules and innovations in construction techniques.

It is DMCI Homes' first foray in boutique single mid-rise building development.