Taipei 101
The Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a 508 m, 101-story skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. It is owned by Taipei Financial Center Corporation. It... Wikipedia
- Former names: Taipei World Financial Center
- Alternative names: Top of Taipei, Taipei Tower, Tower of Taipei
- Surpassed by: Burj Khalifa
- Status: Completed
- Type: Skyscraper
- Style: Neo-futurism
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Address: No. 7, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District
- Groundbreaking: January 31, 1999
- Construction started: July 31, 1999
- Topped-out: June 13, 2001 (mall), July 01, 2003 (tower)
- Completed: November 14, 2003 (mall), December 31, 2004 (tower)
- Cost: NT$58 billion (US$1.9 billion)
- Owner: Taipei Financial Center Corporation
- Height: 508 m (1,666.67 ft)
- Architectural: 508.2 m (1,667.32 ft)
- Height (with tip): 509.2 m (1,670.6 ft)
- Roof: 449.2 m (1,473.75 ft)
- Top floor: 438 m (1,437.01 ft)
- Observatory: 449.2 m (1,473.75 ft)
- Floors: 101
- Floor area: 412,500 m²
- Lifts/elevators: 61 installed by Toshiba with KONE EcoDisc motors
- Architect: C.Y. Lee and C.P. Wang
- Structural engineer: Evergreen Consulting Engineering and Thornton Tomasetti
- Main contractor: KTRT Joint Venture, Kumagai Gumi, Taiwan Kumagai, RSEA, Ta-Yo-Wei, Samsung C&T
- Awards and prizes: Existing Buildings, LEED Platinum O+M
- Data source: DuckDuckGo