It resembles a giant bamboo shoot, can carry men and women far more than a kilometre skyward in less than 40 seconds, and yesterday it was officially declared the world's tallest building.
The 508 metre tall developing in Taipei's Hsinyi district is 56 metres taller than the earlier record holder, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
The opening of Taipei 101 - a reference to the number of floors - was attended by neighborhood dignitaries keen to bask within the glory of 1 of Asia's most ambitious engineering projects ever. As an opera firm entertained the crowd, the world's fastest passenger lifts whisked VIPs 1,010 metres to the 89th floor observation deck in just 39 seconds.
The developing, which took six years to comprehensive, is designed to withstand earthquakes of much more than magnitude 7 on the Richter scale and storms so fierce they take place, on common, only when each and every 100 years.
Produced from concrete and steel, and wrapped inside a double layer of heat-reducing glass, the structure houses a five-storey purchasing mall and offices for 12,000 folks.
A lot more than 30% from the 198,000 square metres of workplace space has been purchased.
The $1.8bn (?38m) skyscraper is now a matter of nearby pride. At yesterday's opening ceremony, Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, named it one particular with the most productive examples of construction the island had ever noticed.
"The glory and good results of Taipei doesn't belong to one single mayor but all the citizens," mentioned Mr Chen, who launched the project as mayor of Taipei in 1998.
But rivals for the title of world's tallest constructing - offered spires are excluded - are below construction. They include the Shanghai Planet Economic Centre, due for completion in 2007, which will stand 541 metres tall from floor to roof, beating Taipei 101 by 54 metres.
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