Saturday, January 26, 2008

Taipei 101: Tall Buildings Do Not Photograph Well


Taipei 101 is, for now, the tallest building in the world. In the 21st century, buildings don't get to be world's tallest for long. Indeed, the designation is fraught with technicalities, and always has been.

From above, blurry pictures of Taipei look like blurry pictures of any metropolis, so I'll spare you most of them. These two views communicate the important things:

1) At the top of Taipei 101 (actually the 88th of 101 floors), you are indeed in the clouds.

2) I know now the inspiration of the sculpture outside the ceramics museum at Yingge.

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