Taipei 101 Floors

Taiwan's Tallest Skyscraper

Taipei 101 is located at Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan

December 31, 2004 - Tower opens to the public.

SOME BASIC INFORMATION

Architect – C.Y.Lee & Partners

Structural Engineer – Shaw Shieh

Structural Consult. – Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers, New York City

Year Started – June 1998 (Mall already open)

Total Height – 508m

No. of Floors – 101

Cost – $ 700 million

Building Use – Office Complex + Mall

Parking - 83,000 m2, 1800 cars

Retail - Taipei 101 Mall (77,033 m2)

Offices - Taiwan Stock Exchange (198,347 m2)

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE

Structure depicts a bamboo stalk

Worlds Tallest Building - 

 BURJ KHALIFA (BURJ DUBAI)

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to become the world's tallest building....

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Elisane Silva - 6'9"/206cms 14 year old

In metric system measurement, Elisane Silva is 206 centimeters tall. 

Elisane Silva is a young girl from Brazil who

hopes to become a supermodel one day.   

Doctor's are concerned, however, that Elisane may have some sort of growth hormone or pituitary gland problem but, so far, all test results have been normal.

In metric system measurement, Elisane Silva is 206 centimeters tall. 

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Tallest Castles of The World

We all love the medieval times, with it’s knights, princess, knighthood, fair speech, battles, and especially with monumental castles.

We all have seen a lot of castles on the net, but here are few pics of my own favorite castles.

Neuschwanstein Castle - Royal palace in the Bavarian Alps of Germany, the most famous of three royal palaces built for Louis II of Bavaria, sometimes referred to as Mad King Ludwig, who grew up nearby at Hohenschwangau Castle. And my favourite and most beautiful of all. 

PALACE OF VERSAILLES - The Palace of Versailles was the official residence of the Kings of France from 1682 until 1790. It was originally a hunting lodge, built in 1624, by Louis XIII. It  was expanded by Louis XIV beginning in 1669. He used it as a little lodge as a secret refuge for his amorous trysts with the lovely Louise de la Valliere and built a fairy tale park around it.  Jules Hardouin Mansart, the king’s principal architect, drew the plans to enlarge what was turning more and more into a palace from A Thousand and One Nights. The terrace that overlooked the gardens was removed to make way for the magnificent Hall of Mirrors, the Galarie de Glaces. It is here from which the king radiated his power and where the destiny of Europe was decided over a century. The French classical architecture was complemented by extensive gardens.

CHENONCEAU - Chenonceaux, small agricultural community in the department of Indre-et-Loire in northwestern France,18 miles east of Tours. Located on the Cher River. Chenonceaux is best known as the site of the 16th-century Chateau de Chenonceaux, which is situated on the north bank of the river. 

In 1515 Thomas Bohier, revenue collector for King Francis I, began the construction of the Chateau de Chenonceaux. Unfinished at the time of his death, construction of the chateau was completed by Bohier’s wife and son. In 1535, however, Francis I took the estate in payment of debts. King Henry II, son of Francis I, gave the chateaux to Diane de Poitiers, duchesse de Valentinois, who extended the structure by a bridge across the Cher. Catherine de Medicis, widow of Henry II, forced Diane de Poitiers to deed the chateaux to her. Catherine de Medicis constructed the gallery above the bridge and the stables known as the Batiment-des-Dames. The chateau became her favorite residence, and it was there that her son Francis II and Mary, Queen of Scots, were married in 1560.

The Chateau of Chambord - Chambord, chateau, park, and village in the department of Loire-et-Cher in central France. The chateau of Chambord was a retreat for French kings, especially Louis XIV  It was under his auspices that French dramatist Moliere’s Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and Le bourgeois Gentilhomme were first produced there.

Linderhof - Ludwig II built this secluded hunting lodge, it was known as the Kings Hut. Ludwig decided that this will be a New Versailles. It was planned as a modest villa  but had become a splendid Rococo palace in the ornate French style.  Linderhof is the smallest of the three royal castles, and the only one which was completely finished. (1878).

Tower of London - Castle building was an essential part of the Norman Conquest; when Duke William of Normandy invaded England  in 1066 his first action after landing was to build a castle.After his coronation in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066, William ordered the construction of a castle in London for his triumphal entry. nitially the Tower had consisted of a modest enclosure built into the south-east corner of the Roman City walls, but by the late 1070s, with the initial completion of the White Tower, it had become the most fearsome of all. Nothing had been seen like it in England before. It was built by Norman masons and English (Anglo-Saxon) labor drafted in from the countryside.  It was intended to protect the river route from