Taipei 101

Taipei 101
台北101
Former names	Taipei World Financial Center
Record height
Tallest in the world from 2004 to 2009[I]
Preceded by	Petronas Towers
Surpassed by	Burj Khalifa
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Skyscraper
Architectural style	Postmodernism
Address	No. 7, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District
Town or city	Xinyi District, Taipei
Country	Taiwan
Coordinates	25°2′1″N 121°33′54″E / 25.03361°N 121.56500°E / 25.03361; 121.56500
Groundbreaking	31 January 1999 (1999-01-31)
Construction started	31 July 1999 (1999-07-31)
Topped-out	Mall: 13 June 2001 (2001-06-13) Tower: 1 July 2003 (2003-07-01)
Completed	Mall: 14 November 2003 (2003-11-14) Tower: 31 December 2004 (2004-12-31)
Cost	NT$58 billion USD1.895 billion
Owner	Taipei Financial Center Corporation
Landlord	Taipei City Government
Height
Architectural	509.2 m (1,671 ft)
Tip	509.2 m (1,671 ft)
Roof	449.2 m (1,474 ft)
Top floor	429.2 m (1,408 ft)
Observatory	449.2 m (1,474 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	101
Floor area	412,500 m2 (4,440,100 sq ft)[1]
Lifts/elevators	61
Design and construction
Architect	C.Y. Lee & C.P. Wang
Main contractor	KTRT Joint Venture[2][3] Kumagai Gumi, Taiwan Kumagai, RSEA, Ta-Yo-Wei Samsung C&T[2][4][5][6]
Awards and prizes	Existing Buildings, LEED Platinum O+M
Website
www.taipei-101.com.tw
References
[7][8]

Taipei 101 (simplified Chinese: 台北101; traditional Chinese: 臺北101) is a 101-floor building in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2004, it replaced the Willis Tower (which used to be called the Sears Tower) as the tallest completed building in the world.^[9] However, in 2010, it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.^[10]

Taipei 101 holds records for:

• Ground to structural top: 509 m (1,671 ft). The record was formerly held by the Petronas Towers at 452 m (1,483 ft)
• Ground to roof: 449 m (1,474 ft). The record was formerly held by the Sears Tower at 442 m (1,451 ft)
• Ground to highest occupied floor: 429 m (1,441 ft). The record was formerly held by the Sears Tower
• Fastest elevator speed: 16.83 m/s (37.5 miles/hour or 60.4 km/h)
• Largest count-down clock on New Year's Eve

Taipei 101 does not hold the record for tallest building from ground to pinnacle. The Willis Tower has two television antennas on top of it, making its height from the ground to the top of the taller antenna 527 m (1,729 ft).

1. ↑ "Taipei 101, Taipei". SkyscraperPage.com.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "TAIPEI 101 – The Skyscraper Center". skyscrapercenter.com.
3. ↑ "Taipei 101". findthedata.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-17.
4. ↑ 2001-10: Wins the contract for Taipei 101 (101 levels, 508 meters), then the world's tallest building. History - Company - Samsung C&T Archived 2022-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
5. ↑ "Building Taipei 101". 18 January 2013.
6. ↑ "Samsung C&T". Lakhta Center. Archived from the original on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
7. ↑ "Taipei 101". SkyscraperPage.. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
8. ↑ Taipei 101 at Structurae. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
9. ↑ "100 Tallest Buildings in the World" (PDF). Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-29. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
10. ↑ "Putzmeister - Europe - EUROPA". www.putzmeister.com.