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 TAIPEI 101 Skyscraper - Taipei, Taiwan
N 25° 02.047 E 121° 33.913
51R E 355246 N 2769492
Taipei 101 is one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world located in Taipei, Taiwan.
Waymark Code: WMB51N
Location: Taiwan
Date Posted: 04/06/2011
Views: 22
The Taipei 101 building was the tallest building in the world from 2004 to 2010. It comprises 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. The tower has served as an icon of modern Taiwan ever since its opening, and received the 2004 Emporis Skyscraper Award. The Taipei 101 is designed to withstand the typhoon winds and earthquake tremors common in its area. Engineers designed the structure of the tower as a “megaframe” with a central braced core connected to several perimeter “supercolumns” on each building face via one-, two- and three-story tall outrigger trusses. Inherent structural damping in Taipei 101 is supplemented by a tuned-mass damper(TMD) designed by Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers along with Evergreen Consulting Engineering. The 730 ton steel pendulum sways to offset movements in the building caused by strong wind gusts or earthquakes. Its sphere, the largest damper sphere in the world, consists of 41 circular steel plates. The main tower features a series of eight segments of eight floors each. In Chinese-speaking cultures the number eight is associated with abundance, prosperity and good fortune. ( visit link)
Building Name: Taipei 101 (Alternate name: Taipei Financial Center 101)
Structure Height: 1670
Number of Stories: 101
Year Built: 1999 to 2004
Architect/Design Firm: C.Y. Lee and Partner, Architects, and Turner International Industries, Inc.
Style: Post-Modern
Use: Office Building
Publicly accessible areas:
The Taipei 101 building has public access to the shopping areas on the first 5 floors and the observatories located on the 88th - 91st floors for a 400 Yen ($13 USD) fee.
Hours:
The observatories are open from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm
Cost:
There is no cost to visit the building and the shopping area.
There is a cost of 400 Yen($13.00 USD) to ride the high speed elevator to the 89th floor, the observatory.
Address:
8, Sung-Chin Road
Xinyi (Hsinyi) District
Taipei, Taiwan
Building Website: [Web Link]
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) link: [Web Link]
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Visit Instructions:
To visit this waymark, you must provide a description of your experience and add one photograph (taken by you) of any part of the skyscraper to the gallery. This photograph does not have to have either you or your GPS receiver in it.
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