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Taipei 101

Determining which building is the world’s tallest isn’t as easy as it should be. I visited Taipei 101, which is the currently leader in a few of the categories. The audio tour always refers to the building as “Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building.” (Example: “You can take a picture of Taipei 101, the world’s tallest building, from so-and-so square”) As far as I’m concerned, Taipei 101 is the world’s most emotionally insecure building.

  • The Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan

  • View of Taipei from the top of the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan
  • View of Taipei from the top of the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan
  • View of Taipei from the top of the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan
  • View of Taipei from the top of the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan
  • View of Taipei from the top of the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan
  • Tuned Mass Damperwithin the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan

    The hug Tuned Mass Damper, which stabilizes the building during earthquakes and typhoons

  • Shops within the Taipei 101 building in Taipei, Taiwan

    What else would be at the bottom of the building?

This entry was written by fil and posted on Mar 18, 2005 at 4:00am and filed under Life, Photo, Travel. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

4 Comments

  1. archie bruces

    hello..wow i like your place in i love to see.your place is the best place in the world.

    Posted Jul 2, 2005 at 8:20pm | Permalink
  2. Osca*r.

    Felicidades, a las autoridades ‘taiwanesas”, por tan fantastica obra. La verdad, es increible, ver como, en general “la cultura asiatica”, nos sorprende a todos y al mundo entero, de tan fantastica abilidad sutil y diligente, para emprender projectos tan bellos como este.
    Arriba Taiwan.

    Posted Jul 4, 2005 at 8:18am | Permalink
  3. P. Martin, Sr.

    That God could give men the ability to construct a skyscaper such as the one in Taipei (indeed all skyscrapers everywhere) is just as breathtaking in thought as the views from these magnificent heights afforded by these buildings!

    Posted Jul 8, 2005 at 3:04pm | Permalink
  4. Annie C.

    Wow…that place is cool! i’ve been there b4 and itz great..but i haven’t been to the very top..it would be awesome to be able to..=D

    Posted Sep 5, 2005 at 5:35am | Permalink