4. Taipei 101

Height: 509 meters
Floor: 101
Country: Taiwan
City: Ack-ack
Complete: 2004

Taipei 101 Tower, formerly known as the World Financial Center Taipei. The building has a height of 449.2 meters to the roof, if you count the antenna mast on the roof of the building will reach 509.2 m height. The building includes 101 stories above the ground as his name in the basement with built deep into the ground, and also serve as a solid foundation to support the weight of the whole project.

The foundation of the building was reinforced by 380 large piles, each pile has a diameter of 1.5 m plunged 80m to the ground, piles also penetrates deeper into the hard rock 30m below the surface and can withstand loads from 1,000 to 1,320 tons.

Inside the tower, suspended between floors 88 and 89 is a giant metal sphere, is described as a balance for the building of the hurricane with winds of more than 216km / g, the earthquake 7-magnitude earthquake.

To be able to be 101 floors of the building, you can choose between 61 lifts, including 2 lifts with high speed (1.010m/phut) in just 39 seconds should tourists have been "shot jump "up to level 89. It has an indoor observation deck lets you see the entire city at 383.4 m elevation. At the end of the day, Tai Pan Bar, located at the terrace of the Grand Formosa hotel should be the final destination of visitors to sip a cocktail and watch the Taipei cityscape at night.