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The building's high-speed elevators, manufactured by Toshiba of Japan, held the record for the fastest in the world at the time of completion. The elevators of Taipei 101 that transport passengers from the 5th to the 89th floor in 37 seconds (attaining 60.6 km/h (37.7 mph)) set speed records.
Currently, it is still the tallest building in Taiwan, Asia's sixth tallest building, and the world's ninth tallest building. There are currently five buildings over 200 metres under construction in Taiwan, including the Taipei Twin Tower 1, which will reach 369 metres (1,211 ft).
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.
The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least 9 people dead, also damaged 770 buildings, ... High within the tower, however, another technological innovation ...
The Taiwan Tower (Chinese: 台灣塔; pinyin: Táiwān Tǎ) is a futuristic tower planned for construction in Taichung, Taiwan. It will be over 300 meters high, and have eight "Blimps" that carry people to the top of the tower. It will resemble a tree trunk, with the blimps resembling leaves. The "leaves" will be able to carry up to 80 people ...
That was in turn surpassed by the 1,368-foot-high (417 m) Twin Towers of New York's original World Trade Center in 1972, which were in turn surpassed by the Sears Tower in Chicago in 1974. Now called the Willis Tower since 2009, it was 1,451 feet (442 meters) to its flat rooftop, or 1,518 feet (463 meters) including its original antennas. [ 22 ]
The architectural plan of Taipei Nan Shan Plaza consists of three parts: a 7-story complex mall, a 48-story tower, and a diamond-shaped entrance building with an open art space. The 272-meter-tall tower is now the second tallest building in Taipei , and will be the highest-ranking office building in East Asia, with the aim of becoming the first ...
The Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo, Japan has been the tallest tower since 2012.. This list includes extant structures that fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and which is self-supporting or free-standing, meaning no guy-wires for support."