high-rise vs towering

high-rise

adj
  • Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips. 

noun
  • A tall building, one consisting of many storeys. 

towering

adj
  • Very tall or high, so as to dwarf anything around it. 

noun
  • The act or condition of being high above others. 

How often have the words high-rise and towering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )