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.
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Source Wikidata: Canton Tower
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- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
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1. Canton Tower, Wikipedia
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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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in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton), China.
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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
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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.
View the Source2. Wikidata: Canton Tower
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- Wikidata Q168400, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
- In Style: High-Tech Architecture, Infobox style field: Structural expressionism
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