Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.
- Height
- 508 m1,667 ft
- Completed
- 2004
- By
- C.Y. Lee & Partners
- Coordinates
- 25° 02′ 02″ N121° 33′ 52″ E · 25.0340, 121.5645
A tapering base, then eight modules of eight storeys stacked like a pagoda, each flaring outward as it rises, its corners stepped in. A smaller crown and the spire run on above the last.
Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Taipei, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.
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