JohnsonBox Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 (edited) (Xinhua Network Oct.18 13:34 Beijing Time) The skyscraper has been finished yestoday. It is higher than Chicago's Sears Tower, the former No.1 skyscraper in the world. Edited October 19, 2003 by JohnsonBox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enriq760 Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 ..cool..nice bulding.. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroChaos Veteran Posted October 18, 2003 Veteran Share Posted October 18, 2003 how tall is it? i thought the CN tower was the tallest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonBox Posted October 18, 2003 Author Share Posted October 18, 2003 how tall is it? i thought the CN tower was the tallest? Don't you see the title of the thread? 508m high! (508 meters high!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blues Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Stuff like this kinda scares me. I mean you see all the futuristic movies with the skyscrapers and tall -arse buildings... and they look cool. but all i can think of is the tower of babel. Dont you think we (as people) might be overdoing it a bit... i mean..wouldnt a busness complex be a little more conventional than a skyscraper ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 It's the Taipei 101 office block. It's full height of 1,667 feet. Unseating Malaysia?s Petronas Towers as the world?s tallest building. There is no sailsea tower in chicago. It's the Sears Tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=SD=- Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 And with that the other towers will add a pole to become the tallest again lol I say it's time to build a building so tall you need an oxygen tank/mask to reach the upper floors, or maybe it's time we build a giant bubble in the ocean so people can live down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrope Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 (Xinhua Network Oct.18 13:34 Beijing Time) The skyscraper has been finished yestoday. It is higher than Chicago's Sailsea(spelling?) Building. http://image2.sina.com.cn/dy/c/2003-10-18/...5512_ala42J.jpg Sailsea? Sears Tower? Lmfao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 And with that the other towers will add a pole to become the tallest again lolI say it's time to build a building so tall you need an oxygen tank/mask to reach the upper floors, or maybe it's time we build a giant bubble in the ocean so people can live down there. lmao Now thats funny hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dt26 Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 they haven't finished building it yet. They just put that top spire thing on today, they expect to finish building in 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiro P. Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 phallictastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altezza Veteran Posted October 19, 2003 Veteran Share Posted October 19, 2003 Looks like giant vibrator to me :D :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 I don't believe they have finished either. I was actually in Taiwan this past summer and saw them still building it. Originally they wanted to make it taller than it currently is, but physics took over. Yeah, anyways, it's pretty crazy, they are even building them late into the night. Imagine if that was in the US... freaking lawsuits would be flying in all directions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonBox Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 Eh. Because of the issues like air traffic control! Haha, Americans are rich people, they fly everywhere, and they pursuit No.1 champion everywhere too! Pathetically, their skycrapers block their flyers! So they have lost the fame of No.1 skyscraper in the world :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopper Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Eh. Because of the issues like air traffic control! Haha, Americans are rich people, they fly everywhere, and they pursuit No.1 champion everywhere too! Pathetically, their skycrapers block their flyers! So they have lost the fame of No.1 skyscraper in the world :D yea, we americans r really rich and pathetic. :rolleyes: congrats on ur new tower dude. i hope u and ur peeps have a blast (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Looks like giant vibrator to me :D :p lmao! Bad altezza! BAD!!! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemania Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 (edited) yea, we americans r really rich and pathetic. :rolleyes: congrats on ur new tower dude. i hope u and ur peeps have a blast (Y) It's not "their tower", it's Taiwans tower. and I thought the former tallest building wasn't Sears but the Petronas Towers in Malaysia Edited October 19, 2003 by davemania24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonBox Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 It's not "their tower", it's Taiwans tower.and I thought the former tallest building wasn't Sears but the Petronas Towers in Malaysia davemania24 means there is two China in the world, one called PRC, another Taiwan. Sears Tower is more famous than Petronas Towers I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preducer Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 the previous tallest tower was the petronas twin towers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentinel01 Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 other titleholders were the empire state building, world trade center, then the sears tower, then the petronas tower, now the taipei 101 office block, and there's another buildin goin up in shanghai, china that's supposed to be taller when it's done in 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonBox Posted October 19, 2003 Author Share Posted October 19, 2003 And no doubt Taipei will enjoy four years champion, hmm, yummy. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganpugh84 Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 Don't you see the title of the thread? 508m high! (508 meters high!) hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
als345 Posted October 19, 2003 Share Posted October 19, 2003 The previously tallest skyscraper in the world was the Petronas Towers. The Petronas Towers were at a height of 452 metres (1,483 ft) and the Taipei 101 Building (Taiwan) is at (as you know) hight of about 508 metres high. You are correct in that it is the largest Office Building in the world but it is not the tallest free standing structure. The CN Tower owns that reign, it is at a hight of 553.33 metres (1,815 ft., 5 inches). (Link) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poind Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Cool looking building. Still don't quite get what it is with the "competition" over having the tallest building at times. Certainly very boyish locker-room "mine is bigger than yours" kind of stuff. Hope the way it's structured is beneficial for the folk that have to work there / region in general for whatever reason. Gotta admit going up some of those really big skyscrapers kind of scares me at times--no easy way out should the need arise, as nice as the views can be. Just "feel" really vulnerable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnsonBox Posted October 20, 2003 Author Share Posted October 20, 2003 The previously tallest skyscraper in the world was the Petronas Towers. The Petronas Towers were at a height of 452 metres (1,483 ft) and the Taipei 101 Building (Taiwan) is at (as you know) hight of about 508 metres high. You are correct in that it is the largest Office Building in the world but it is not the tallest free standing structure. The CN Tower owns that reign, it is at a hight of 553.33 metres (1,815 ft., 5 inches). (Link) Canada, wonderful! Go Canada! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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