The Taipei Tower 101

March 17, 2007 |22:08 | By : Hardesh Hira

From generations we have seen sculptures and buildings being raised from scratch from being beautiful , exotic , fantastic architecture , interior designs to rather being taller than the tallest. The debate of buildings being taller than the others has risen a few eye brows and now we see some of the tallest ones in the world. For almost 20 years we had the ‘Sears’ in Chicago the tallest structure in the world. But then in 1996 the Petronas Twin Towers had taken the regime, the crown of being the tallest building in the world. And most recently we find another Asian country giving it some competition. The Taipei Tower 101 has been crowned the gaint of the structures in the world. Why?

Here are the some statistics

With a massive 60-foot spire inspired by Twaiwan's native bamboo plant, Taipei 101 Tower is one of the tallest buildings in the world. At 508 meters (1,667 feet) high, the tower and its spire outrank the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Taipei Tower has 198,347 m2 (2,336,000 sq. ft.) of office space, 77,033 m2 (796,000 sq. ft.) of retail space, and 83,000 m2 (893,000 sq. ft.) of parking space for more than 1,800 vehicles.

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