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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?
I wonder how long it will be the world's tallest. A couple of years?
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I am not a great fan of those repetitive parts of the structure, but generally,
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It looks like a model, not an actual structure, since it dwarfs the surrounding buildings.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, 1891Comment
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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?Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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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."
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, 1891Comment
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A new target for all those DIY-home photon blaster kits.-30-Comment
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It really does look freakish next to all those other shorter buildings.
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Still waiting for the Blade Runner City to be builtQue l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.
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He say you brade runnah.-30-Comment
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And the 'Penis Envy' building wars continue
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hmm.... I guess I'll have to visit it someday....Comment
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Damn.
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Good link.
Anyone know the lifespan of this tower?Safer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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Gojira will destroy it soon enough.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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