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Canton Tower

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The Canton Tower, formally the Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower, is a 602-metre multipurpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou, China, designed by Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit of the firm Information Based Architecture with structural engineering by Arup. It was topped out in 2009 and became fully operational on September 30, 2010, in time for that year's Asian Games hosted in Guangzhou, and it briefly held the record as the world's tallest tower before being surpassed by Tokyo Skytree. The tower's twisted hyperboloid form, drawing on structural principles associated with the engineer Vladimir Shukhov, tapers and rotates along its height, and visitors can cross a 180-metre open-air skywalk through the narrowest point of the tower's waist; its rooftop observatory was, at completion, the world's highest outdoor observation deck. The tower also carries revolving restaurants and an LED lighting system engineered to use only a fraction of its maximum possible power draw.

Facts
Building Type
Observation Tower 1
Location
Guangzhou, China 1
Completed Year
2010 2
Height (m)
604 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Tower 1
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High-Tech Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Wikidata: Canton Tower
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Source Canton Tower, WikipediaLead sentence 1
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The Canton Tower (Chinese: 广州塔), formally Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower (Chinese: 广州电视台天文及观光塔), is a 600-metre-tall (2,000 ft) multipurpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton), China.
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1. Canton Tower, Wikipedia
  • Lead section, first sentence (type clause)
    is a 600-metre-tall (2,000 ft) multipurpose observation tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton), China.
  • Lead section, first sentence (location clause)
    in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton), China.
  • Lead section, completion sentence
    The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010
  • Structure section, height paragraph
    Combined with the tower's 150-metre-long (490 ft) antenna, the Canton Tower has a total height of 604 metres
  • Lead section
    The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 in time for the 2010 Asian Games. The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing Toronto's CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree.
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2. Wikidata: Canton Tower
  • Wikidata Q168400, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q168400, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
  • In Style: High-Tech Architecture, Infobox style field: Structural expressionism
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