Taipei 101 facts
While investigating facts about Taipei 101, I found out little known, but curios details like:
In 1937, the Soviets started construction of the 1,624ft 'Palace of the Soviets' tower (almost as tall as the Taipei 101 tower) with a huge (328ft tall) statue of Lenin on the top. WWII stopped construction, and the foundations were turned into the world's largest swimming pool
The Taipei 101 skyscraper uses a 728 ton steel tuned mass damper (basically a giant pendulum) to counter motion of the building since it is so close to a fault line.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 9 of the best facts about Taipei 101 I managed to collect.
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The Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan, is home to the fastest elevator in the world. Traveling at 37.7 mph/ 3,313 fpm at a height of 1,670ft. It can travel from the ground to the roof in 30 secs, at full speed. And costs more than $2 mil.
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Taipei 101, the sixth tallest building in the world, contains a 660-tonne pendulum called a damper sphere (the largest in the world) to sustain the largest earthquake likely to occur in a 2,500 year cycle.
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The construction of Taipei 101 in Taiwan caused an increase of (micro)earthquakes every year.
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The Taipei 101 is the tallest green building in the world
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Samsung is not just a mobile/electronics company but they built Burj Khalifa, Petronas Towers & Taipei 101 too!
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Taipei's Shin Kong Life Tower's rose colour exterior was inspired by the national flowers of Taiwan and Japan. Its 46th-floor observatory hosted over 4 million visitors but the number of guests dropped dramatically after Taipei 101 opened a new observatory at nearly twice the height
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Samsung built one of the two Petronas Towers (world’s tallest buildings 1998-04), Taipei 101 (tallest 2004-11) and the Burj Khalifa (current tallest). Samsung is huge. It is 17% of good Korea’s GDP, made 3.5bn in 2014 and employs 490,000 people - more than Apple+Google+Microsoft combined
