Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building

mstamat writes "A 101-storey skyscraper in Taipei is from today the world's tallest building. The new scyscraper is 508 metres (1,667 feet) tall, beating the 452-metre (1,483-feet) twin Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur. The full height was achieved after adding a 60-metre (197-ft) spire on top of the building. The story is on Reuters." There's plenty of information about the building available.

Comments

Adding a spike to the top...

[aiyo]

..is like sticking a toothpick on my dick to gain that extra two inches. Not very fair huh?

Re:Adding a spike to the top...

[Joel Carr]

..is like sticking a toothpick on my dick to gain that extra two inches. Not very fair huh?

Well I'll take your word that that is what it is like, having never done it myself. But it has to be said, it sounds extraordinarily painful. Each to his own I guess. :-P

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Re:Adding a spike to the top...

[POds]

To whome is it unfair? You'r fellow compeditors or those who shall receive you'r wrath!?

Re:Spires shouldn't count

[POds]

Nope, i've thought this myself.. Its stupid.. if i wanted, and with appropriate concil approval i could put a 508 spiral on my house and then my house would be the talest building in the world...

Should be floor, but then you'r gunna run around with people saying "Technically, this" and "Technically that"... So theres no use in changing it now!

Re:World's tallest building?

[ftvcs]

I always thaught the highest building was that little shack on the mount-everest.

Good way of confusing terrorists

[jazman]

Change the rules to include poles et al.

Then next time OBL decides it would be cool to fly a jumbo into the worlds tallest building, he'll get there and be like "dang, it's a two storey with a 5000m flag pole!"

Re:Nothing to learn?

[Saeger]

Haven't we learned anything of World Trade Errors?

What? Like being too chickenshit to build taller? Lesson learned; terrorists won.

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Re:anti-overshooting system?

[dcmeserve]

Each elevator is designed with an aerodynamic body, pressurization and emergency braking systems, and the world's first triple-stage anti-overshooting system. The cost for each elevator is over $US 2 million.

Um, what is a "triple-stage anti-overshooting system"?

It's a highly sophisticated, interactive system of three dwarves standing on one another's shoulders to reach the brake lever.

(Previous designs employed Hobbits, but they took too many lunch breaks.)

Re:The rules only include spires, not poles

[donscarletti]

Personally, as the guy who stated that the sears tower would be the second heighest if aerials were included I am happy to be corrected and I acknowledge that the Ostankino Tower would be indeed be taller nomatter what implication that would have in the comparison between Russia and the United States. I am a citizen of neither so I don't really care.

I am an Australian, a member of a nation that doesn't really have a huge number of "biggests" and "firsts" (we still have a quite a few for a country with a small population). It may supprise some people to know that we Australians don't even have the largest steel arch bridge, the French hold that record with the Bayonne Arch, which was built before ours and is a meter longer. But then again, many more people know about and can recognise the Sydney Harbour Bridge than any bridge in France despite the fact that ours is not the biggest so who cares?

We Australians have great beer, foreign chicks dig our macho stigma and we will kick anyones arse in cricket. Maybe that whole cold war dick measuring contest you seem so intent on continuing in slashdot could have been solved if the US and the USSR got drunk together, played some cricket, and got laid by a whole lot of hot chicks.

Re:Hmm

[blibbleblobble]

"How about if they just made a really big pole, would that be the new biggest building in the world?"

Music-industry accounting?

"Well, it's about 30 times wider than a very thin tower, so we'll just say it's 60 times as high."

Re:the *actual* tallest building..

[Slowping]

I remember several people on their hands and knees, trying to overcome their fear of heights and crawl out the middle of the glass. Some others slowly walked over it.

I waltzed right to the middle of that section, and started jumping up and down. Everyone scrambled off like a bunch of roaches.

hehehehe

Is it just me?

[El]

Does everybody else think the International Finance Center in Hong Kong hereis modeled after what I think it's modeled after? To quote Shrek: "Maybe they're trying to make up for something."

Re:Spires shouldn't count

[sketerpot]

Personally, I think spires should count. I'm tired of the whole "we've got the biggest building now, nyaa nyaa!" thing, and spires could end it once and for all. Why? Three words: the space elevator. If it counts as a "spire", then whatever base it sits on can be called the "tallest building in the world", and no amount of sticking dirigible docks on the empire state building or this new thing in Taipei can change it.

Either that or the stupid spire rule will go away. Either way, I forsee only good coming of the whole thing.