THE WORLDS.....Tallest building

The taipei 101..Cool eh? Its the tallest buliding at the moment it is located at Hsinyi dist., Taipei, Taiwan; also known as the Taipei Financial Center. With 101 stories and reaching 1,671 ft (509 m) high, Taipei 101 became the world's tallest building when it was topped out in 2003, surpassing the Petronas Towers; construction, which began in 1999, was completed in 2004. Designed by C. Y. Lee & Partners, the multiuse steel-and-glass skyscraper echoes a traditional Chinese pagoda with its soaring podium base, eight tiers of eight stories (a number that is a homophone for prosperous growth in Chinese), and narrow pinnacle tower and spire. A 18-ft (5.5-m), 882-ton (800-metric-ton), ball-shaped damper located near the top counteracts swaying during earthquakes and typhoons. The damper ball is the first and was designed specificaly for the taipei 101. Taipei 101 is part of the city infastructure modernization including bridges,universities and ofcourse the taipei 101 for the financial ditrict.



By the way our tallest building is PBcom tower 52-stories, is a joint development of Filinvest Asia Corporation (FAC) and the Philippine Bank of Communications. FAC is a joint venture between FDC and Reco Herrera Pte. Ltd., an investing vehicle of the Government of Singapore Real Estate Ltd. Located along Ayala Avenue in Makati, PBCom Tower is a PEZA-accredited information technology zone. It is now home to call centers such as India's Daksh E-services, business processing outsource companies such as Citibank and multinationals like American Express, Schering, Sony Life, AIG and New York Life.