Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower
The Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, at 610m (2,000 ft.) and 37 floors high, will be the highest tower in the world. Scheduled to open to coincide with the city's hosting of the 16th Asian Games in 2010, its anorexic hourglass design looks strangely out of place even among the high-rises of the southern waterfront, facing Zhujiang New Town. Some expats have already begun referring to it as the "mole-hair tower," likening it to an ugly whisker sported by Asians of generations past. Press releases claim that a bungee jumping center will be installed at a height of 454m (1,500 ft.) and that the site will receive in excess of 10,000 tourists per day. Let us just hope that it does not go the same way as the new Science Museum, again slated as the world's largest but about as informative as a Chinese search engine.
The Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, at 610m (2,000 ft.) and 37 floors high, will be the highest tower in the world. Scheduled to open to coincide with the city's hosting of the 16th Asian Games in 2010, its anorexic hourglass design looks strangely out of place even among the high-rises of the southern waterfront, facing Zhujiang New Town. Some expats have already begun referring to it as the "mole-hair tower," likening it to an ugly whisker sported by Asians of generations past. Press releases claim that a bungee jumping center will be installed at a height of 454m (1,500 ft.) and that the site will receive in excess of 10,000 tourists per day. Let us just hope that it does not go the same way as the new Science Museum, again slated as the world's largest but about as informative as a Chinese search engine.
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