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 > The Shanghai Challenge > The First Skyscrapers > Records dimarts, 4 de maig de 2004
This April, the Taipei 101 building received accreditation as the tallest building in the world, accorded by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). The skyscraper, located in the financial centre of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, thus finds itself at the top of a ranking hitherto headed by the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
Taipei 101 is 508 metres tall and has 101 storeys, while the Petronas Towers are 452 metres tall and have 88 storeys each. However, in terms of the number of floors, the Taiwanese building comes behind other buildings such as the Sears Tower in Chicago (Illinois, USA), which has 108. The building also forms part of a complex in which no fewer than ten thousand people can work. It is equipped with shops and a variety of recreation areas. The complex was opened in November 2003, with the exception of the office section, which will open before the end of this year. In response to critics who may point out the danger of constructing buildings of this kind in a region often affected by earthquakes, the architects of the project state that Taipei 101 has been designed to resist seismic tremors of seven degrees of intensity on the Richter scale.
 
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+ The Shanghai World Financial Center may become the tallest building in the world.
But the Taiwanese skyscraper's claim to the record may be very brief: in 2007 construction will finish on the Shanghai World Financial Center, which may become the tallest building in the world. The project, begun in 1997, is being constructed in the commercial and financial district of Pudong, in Shanghai, the densely populated metropolis of Eastern China. The building, which will be finished in 2007, will house offices, a luxury hotel and a wide range of restaurants and shops, and it is seen as symbol of the leading role that this huge Asian country is destined to play over the coming century.
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+ The first skyscrapers were constructed at the end of the 19th century.
The origins of this type of building, which can reach extraordinary heights, are relatively recent. In fact, they began to be built at the end of the 19th century, when, because of the Industrial Revolution, sites on urban land became very expensive... as is the case today. The very first skyscrapers were built in the United States, a country which received several waves of migration during that period. Among the very first skyscrapers, one should mention the World Building (1890) and the Manhattan Life Insurance Company Building (1894), both in New York, and the Masonic Temple (1892), in Chicago. All three were demolished decades ago.
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+ The Empire State Building remained the tallest building for forty years.
The buildings mentioned above were, for a period of time that varies for each case, the tallest buildings in the world. In fact, the one that remained the tallest building for the longest time was the 381 metre tall Empire State Building in New York (since its completion in April 1931 until it was overtaken by the fallen Twin Towers of the World Trade Center at the beginning of the 1970's). The height of the Twin Towers was surpassed in 1974 by the Sears Tower in Chicago, 442 metres tall; this in turn kept its privileged position as the tallest construction until 1998, when the Petronas Towers were completed.
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> Llista dels dos-cents edificis més alts del món.
> Tots els gratacels que han tingut el rècord mundial d'alçada, des del 1890 ençà.
> L'Empire State Building, la construcció que més temps va detenir aquest rècord.
> Els gratacels de Nova York.
I també...
- El projecte d'Antoni Gaudí per a aquesta ciutat.
- Sis característiques del Taipei 101.
- Tres imatges espectaculars de la Torre Sears de Chicago.
- El complex que substituirà el World Trade Center.
- Les deu construccions més altes del món.
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