Height: 508
meters
Cost to
build: US$1.8 billion
Completion
date: 2004
Fast fact:
The building is designed to resemble a growing bamboo stalk, a symbol of
everlasting strength in Chinese culture.
It is the
first skyscraper to soar past the half-kilometer mark and it sat at the
pinnacle of the skyscraper world from 2004 to 2009.
Taipei 101
can also claim the “world’s fastest passenger elevator” title.
At an
ear-popping 1,010 meters per minute, it takes merely 37 seconds to catapult
passengers from the fifth floor to the highest point in Taiwan.
Ritualistically,
Taipei 101 is supported by the lucky number eight in many aspects of its
design, including the number of sections and super columns. It also
incorporates the form of a Chinese pagoda and evokes the shape of sprouting
bamboo flowers.
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