Supertall 101

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Arts, Design

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Starting in the late 1990s, the government of Taipei began looking into how they could turn global attention to their city, the capital of the small island of Taiwan. The initial idea was to create two 66-story office towers, which … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is not 99% invisible.
0:02.2	I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.6	Off the southeastern coast of China is the small sweet potato shaped island of Taiwan.
0:10.6	Yes, I assure you, it is sweet potato shaped, not regular potato shaped.
0:15.0	Taiwan is not recognized by the UN as a sovereign nation, though many people who live there would like it to be.
0:21.0	Depending on who you dare ask, Taiwan could be considered a part of China or a land
0:26.0	apart. Before I traveled to Taiwan, I'm embarrassed to admit I wasn't entirely sure where it was.
0:33.6	Producer Avery Truffman just back from Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
0:37.8	And a lot of people in Taiwan know this.
0:40.0	That people like me aren't really sure where exactly they are or if they're a country.
0:45.7	And this is part of why, in 1997, the city of Taipei set out to do something they hoped
0:51.6	would put them on the map. They set out to do something they hoped would put them on the map.
0:54.0	They set out to build a very, very tall building.
0:58.6	Taiwan really need to let the world see it.
1:02.8	You know, Taiwan is such a beautiful island.
1:05.3	This is Michael Liu.
1:06.7	He's a representative of Taiwan's tallest building,
1:09.3	Taipei 101.
1:10.8	And he says the city of Taipei
1:12.1	started with a plan for a 66-story office
1:15.0	building with a high-class mall and food court and 66 stories was enough to
1:19.6	make it among the tallest in the country. So then the city government said,
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