October 17, 2003, 15:48
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World's Tallest Skyscraper Completed -- Taipei 101
1,671 feet. 101 stories. Damn, that's tall. I really like the architecture, too.
I wonder how long it will be the world's tallest. A couple of years?
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October 17, 2003, 15:50
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October 17, 2003, 15:52
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It looks like a model, not an actual structure, since it dwarfs the surrounding buildings.
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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October 17, 2003, 15:54
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So how much of the tower is actual usable space and how much of it is just a useless spire designed to win the title of tallest building?
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October 17, 2003, 15:58
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Good question, Oerdin. According to skyscrapers.com, "Taipei 101 will hold 3 of the World's Tallest Building titles when it is topped out: Tallest to structural top, Tallest to roof and Highest occupied floor."
http://www.skyscrapers.com/re/en/wm/bu/100765/
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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October 17, 2003, 16:03
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A new target for all those DIY-home photon blaster kits.
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October 17, 2003, 16:05
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It really does look freakish next to all those other shorter buildings.
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October 17, 2003, 16:06
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True dat.
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October 17, 2003, 16:08
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Still waiting for the Blade Runner City to be built
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October 17, 2003, 16:44
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He say you brade runnah.
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October 17, 2003, 18:10
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And the 'Penis Envy' building wars continue  .
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October 17, 2003, 19:11
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hmm.... I guess I'll have to visit it someday....
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October 17, 2003, 19:16
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Damn. 
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October 17, 2003, 19:18
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Good link.
Anyone know the lifespan of this tower?
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October 17, 2003, 19:19
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Gojira will destroy it soon enough.
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October 17, 2003, 19:24
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those damn asians building those damn buildings. somebody give them more flat land.
chicago's sears tower forever! 
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October 17, 2003, 19:28
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We just need a new tallest building in Chicago.
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October 17, 2003, 19:30
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well its designed to last at least a good deal past 75 years, since the way the land lease works is that the city government leases the land for free for 75 years on the condition it gets to own the building when the lease is up.
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October 17, 2003, 19:31
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Hmm. The skyscraper.com people seem really anal about their image rights.
I think the first tower looks really good.
This one does not.
A giant bottle opener? What were they thinking?
Shanghai world financial tower.
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October 17, 2003, 19:38
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I am terrified by the ideas that that hole will give to wannabe areoplane aces 
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October 17, 2003, 21:07
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Looks like some monstrosity out of SimCity. But, each to his own.
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October 17, 2003, 21:23
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Re: World's Tallest Skyscraper Completed -- Taipei 101
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1,671 feet. 101 stories. Damn, that's tall. I really like the architecture, too.
I wonder how long it will be the world's tallest. A couple of years?
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Until the Liebeskind Freedom Tower is built at Ground Zero. That is to be 1776 feet IIRC.
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October 17, 2003, 21:35
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What an eye sore. 
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October 17, 2003, 21:45
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CN Tower -
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October 17, 2003, 21:52
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Re: Re: World's Tallest Skyscraper Completed -- Taipei 101
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Until the Liebeskind Freedom Tower is built at Ground Zero. That is to be 1776 feet IIRC.
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Do you know if the height, 1776, was intentionally selected for it's significance, or no?
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October 17, 2003, 22:04
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It was. He said, in an interview, that he could build the tallest tower in the world, and someone would just come along and build a taller one. He said he wanted to make the height have a specific meaning, so that if someone did that, it wouldn't matter so much. Liebeskind is big on the almost spiritual aspect of the tower. Supposidly on 9/11, the sunlight will come through the corridor between the towers between the exact times the planes hit.
There have been many conspiracy theories about the height, from Christian and Jewish conspiracies, to his own name. In reality, the height was chosen because of Independance Day. Apt for something called the Freedom Tower, and a nice touch IMHO.
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October 17, 2003, 22:08
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1,815 ft., 5 inches
Now that's XXX large.
CANADA CANADA!!!!!
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October 17, 2003, 22:48
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Do you know if the height, 1776, was intentionally selected for it's significance, or no?
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Too bad for when the US converts to metric.
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October 17, 2003, 23:00
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We just need a new tallest building in Chicago.
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The rest of the world may be getting taller, but it still has a long way to catch up to the beauty of the architecture of Chicago.
1776...Nice touch.
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October 17, 2003, 23:42
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So...how many culture points does it generate?
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