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Taipei 101 was the world's tallest building, at 508.2 m (1,667 ft) as measured to its architectural top , exceeding that of the Petronas Towers, which were previously the tallest skyscraper at 451.9 m (1,483 ft). The height to the top of the roof, at 449.2 m (1,474 ft), and highest occupied floor, at 439.2 m (1,441 ft), surpassed the previous ...
Height m (ft) Floors Year Notes 1 Taipei 101 (台北101) Taipei: 508 m (1,667 ft) 101 2004 11th-tallest building in the world. Tallest building in the world from 2004 until 2010. First building in the world to reach 500 m (1,600 ft). Tallest building in Taiwan since 2004. [2] 2 85 Sky Tower (高雄85大樓) Kaohsiung: 347.5 m (1,140 ft) 85 1997
The first building to surpass 150 metres (492 ft) in Taipei was the Shin Kong Life Tower, which was completed in 1993 and is 244.8 m (803 ft) tall. Currently, the tallest building in Taipei is the 101–story Taipei 101, which rises 508 metres (1,667 ft) and was completed in 2004. Taipei 101 was the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010.
The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least ... the soaring Taipei 101, ... Footage from the quake appears to show the 1,667-foot-tall tower slightly swaying ...
Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, set records in three of the four skyscraper categories at the time it opened in 2004; at the time the Burj Khalifa opened in 2010 it remained the world's tallest inhabited building 509.2 m (1,671 ft) as measured to its architectural height (spire).
Counting the Petronas Towers' antenna spires yet discounting the Sears Tower's antennae, the former rose 10 meters above the latter, standing at a height of 452 m (1,483 ft) and each having 88 floors. In 2004, the construction of Taipei 101 brought the height of skyscrapers to a new level, standing at 508 m (1,667 ft) with 101 floors.
In contrast, the Chrysler Building employed a very large 38.1 m (125 ft) spire secretly assembled inside the building to claim the title of world's tallest building with a total height of 318.9 m (1,046 ft), although it had a lower top occupied floor and a shorter height when both buildings' spires were excluded.
This was followed by Taipei 101 in Taiwan's capital of Taipei 7 years later, which became the tallest building in the world at the time. Japan and South Korea both constructed their first supertall buildings in the 2010s; Japan with Abeno Harukas in Osaka in 2014, and South Korea with the Northeast Asia Trade Tower in Incheon in 2012.