Taipei 101, formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan. The building was officially classified as the world's tallest from its opening in 2004 until the 2009 completion of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE. Upon completion, it became the world's first skyscraper to exceed a height of half a kilometer.[1]
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Taipei 101 is featured in The Last Supper.
It was introduced in 2 days after people when food has inspired architecture large and small around the world with some say that Taipei 101, in Taiwan's capital city of Taipei, looks like a towering stack of takeout containers. The show gave information that Taipei 101 is the second tallest skyscraper in the world and was home to some of the highest restaurants on the planet. In order to stabilize the 101 story skyscraper in high winds and earthquakes, engineers devised a technology called a tuned mass damper system, the largest in the world. It's a 720 ton steel pendulum made of 41 circular plates and it's suspended between the 92nd and 88th floors by 8 cables. Tanya Komas stated that it serves the function of dampering the sway of a building and what it does is sway the opposite of the building so it cancels each other out and comes back to rest.
The damper sways during the typhoon bearing 200 mph.
In 5 years after people, Taipei 101 is struck by a typhoon bearing 200 mph wind causing the glass to shatters on the lower levels which allow water to gush inside. Steven S. Ross stated that while Taipei 101 sustains little damage even at 200 miles an hour, some of the glass will fail forcing water to get into the structure in places where it's never been before and cracks would open up. At the tuned mass damper system, the steel pendulum sways to offset the gale force winds while water gushes inside. After 5 years, the massive damper system continue to stabilizes the mega skyscraper.
The damper crashes through the skyscraper.
Its fate is revealed in 200 years after people when it is being taken out by corrosion in a surprising way, at the mass damper system, which was responsible for stabilizing the structure during strong wind, is no longer stable to itself. The rusted cables suddenly snap and the 720 ton steel pendulum ball releases into the building, crushing the floors. Tanya Komas stated that the enormous ball falling down the middle of the building would destroy everything by its path and the remainders of deteriorating floor slabs would be pushed aside. The pendulum ball bulldozes everything as it becomes a weapon of mass destruction and falls 88 floors like a meteorite. The pendulum ball eventually crash lands below ground level and during its fall, Taipei 101 collapses into the ruins of Taipei.
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