Taipei 101
- a building without inner & outer beauty ... ?!
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1. Outer Beauty
Taipei 101's
ranking world No.1 highest construction cost (about USD 176 billion)
business/office building by Global Property Guide on April 26, 2011.
Taipei 101's
selected as one among "Ugly Skyscrapers around the world" by
The
Huffington Post on Sept.
17, 2012.
Some think it looks like a stack
of Chinese food take-out boxes. (Wikipedia:
In July 2012, The Huffington Post was ranked #1 on the 15
Most Popular Political Sites list by eBizMBA Rank.)
Taipei 101 just like
the Taiwan Pavilion in Expo. Shanghai, designed by same architect C.Y. Lee(李祖原),
a Princeton-educated Taiwanese, appeal little applause. In
contrast, with same construction costs (NT$1,000,000,000
or USD 3 billion) and same land space,
the
U.K. Pavilion in EXPO., a sea urchin
shaped
<Seed Cathedral>, is one of the most popular design sites in EXPO. for its "aesthetical
& creative astonishment".
Taipei 101, the
landmark and an icon of Taiwan, looks
plain, ordinary, simple, boring, rough, even ugly. Taipei 101's
aesthetics elements (like gradation, repetition, texture, shape, rhythm, etc) mix is
obviously much worse than Malaysia's twin towers or Shanghai's Grand Hyatt.
Too many Taiwanese
design works in many fields like advertising, visual designs, architectures,
etc, are cheap copy or cliche or simulated stuffs, Taipei 101 at least is an
original work, it simply copied and
produced a new variation
from a bamboo tree.
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Contrast the shape |
'money is
stinky, but I like it !' |
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which one better
mixes aesthetics elements like gradation, repetition, texture, shape,
rhythm, etc ??
Obviously, Taipei 101 tower is the worst.
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Hyatt Shanghai |
Malaysia's twin towers |
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Taipei 101 emblem/logo -
3 ancient Chinese coins money |
ancient Chinese-coin designed window,
looks bit rough, not fine texture, not exquisite architecture details |
This webpage is ranking No.1 by key word "comment Taipei 101"
on Microsoft Bing, 2021-7-1,
on US Yahoo, at June 24, 2015 |
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2. Inner Beauty
Taipei 101 is a
modern skyscraper, but full of out-of-time way of thinking or "superstition
mind" there ―
e.g., many figures of ruyi (an ancient
talisman to protect people from evils
) and money (ancient coins) appear
throughout Taipei 101 as a design motif, Mr. C. Y. Lee expressed it's because
Taiwanese want a "peace of mind", in fact, more than that, Taiwanese
like lots
of money and shades by lucks.
In
TVBS
(July 11, 2015 8:00pm~),
Mr. C. Y. Lee also explained, Westerners think highly of the "shape", so their
architectures look varies or/and outstanding, but the Chinese people think
highly of the
"spirits", so he designed, e.g.,
"888..." to symbolize "Getting rich"...
C.Y.Lee's another coin-money building,
FangYuan Building, also was selected as the ugliest building.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries/9126031/The-worlds-30-ugliest-buildings.html?frame=2104906)
Another thing maybe
is much uglier than Taiwanese superstition
―
In recent years, famous organizations and
clean surveys gave Taiwanese government bad or 'F" scores on its human rights
records.
Has Taipei 101 paid
attentions to Taiwanese or tourists' privacy? or Taiwanese intelligence
units always choose wrong targets for their security mission?
In today's morning
around 10:45 am, my OFF-status cell phone was switched to ON-status "by itself"
when I was shopping in Taipei 101 supermarket. If latest tech. can
remotely do this, it's one more bad human-rights record in Taiwan.
I already wrote to
Taipei 101 (AS BELOW) and await their reply.
Oct. 26, 2014
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email to: Taipei 101 |
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In the morning around 10:45
am, my OFF-status cell phone was automatically switched to ON-status
when I (wearing red shirt & black sports pant) was shopping
cheese/vegetables etc in Taipei 101 supermarket. If latest tech. can
remotely do this, it's one more bad human-rights record in Taiwan.
I learnt that Taipei 101 is
actually managed by a company based in Chicago, USA.
I also learnt that American
core value is straight-forward and courage heart, NOT under table, or
yellow chicken way.
So, please look into this
case, and find out who, if any, was/were doing those dirty jobs. I hope
Taiwan's policemen/intelligence have not stolen your management position
this morning. According to Taiwan's major media (full text, in
Eng
or
Chn ), Taiwanese police's social status is lower and lower,
according to well-known local surveys (full text, in
Eng or
Chn), Taiwan got "F" and lousy scores on its human rights status.
I will bring a legal case
against those evil guys in the shadow and show their names on my websites
- ranking world top (details)
3 concerning "human rights in Taiwan" , actually, this email to you
already was displayed on world no.1 web-page concerning "Taiwanese privacy"
(details pls. click, in
Chn
or
Eng). Your reply will be attached to that web-page.
Looking forward to receiving
your reply very soon.
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Taipei 101 reply
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Dear Mr. (omitted)
We are sorry for the unpleasant experience you had in Taipei 101,
however, you may rest your assured that your personal privacy is
well-secured while shopping in Taipei 101, and we highly recommend you
to contact your mobile service provider or telecom company for further
information about the situation of your gadget.
Thank you for writing to us again.
We look forward your next visit to
Taipei in the near future.
Best Regards,
TAIPEI
101 Mall, Customer Service Dept.
台北101購物中心 顧客服務部
(omitted below)
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ps: ● Sumsung/
tests already done by Nov. 15, 2014 ―
tests result : the cell phone is OK,
testing number is T11307443。
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Taiwan Mobile (comm. sys. service
provider-company) : "... we can not manipulate and turn on users' phone by
system interface ..." (Chinese version:
經確認，因台灣大哥大電信僅提供通訊系統服務，無法透過系統介面操控使用者之設備自動開啟，...) - Nov. 24, 2014.
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3. products
In 2011, I bought a Swiss Longines watch in FormosaTimes (寶島) chain store in Ba-Da
Road, costing me a few thousands NT dollars less than that in Taipei 101. My
Omega watch in Taipei 101 costs about NT10,000 more than the price of the int'l
store that I bought.
You may find some exclusive products in Taipei 101, but some items, like imported avocados, cost you less in other markets.
In middle of Sept. 2015, I bought German's Viola Basis-Musli (Basic Muesli)
which can't be found in SOGO ZhongXia pavilion.
Chinese version for
precise
meanings
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ps pic. allPosters.com,
freepik.com
en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Taipei_101
www.hotelmanagement-network.com/features/feature43490/feature43490-1.html
PS: Apple Daily 10-30-2014 , "Hypocrites' Taipei 101
Tower" (偽善者們的「101」by Mr. 王尚智)
...Taipei 101 always is the 1st choice stage that all Taiwanese hypocrites want
to have, for free parking, for signing a bill, for special
arrangement a job for their own men (rewarding service), even for a light show
by using the tower's glass curtain wall to do some social activities / public
relations between Taiwan and communist China, etc, The majority of those
hypocrites are Taiwan's legislators, elected
representatives, members of the city council, secondly, influential officials
and rich businessmen, thirdly, Taiwanese government including Taipei City Hall
(government) all like to employee some site-spaces and equipments on purpose by
using their all kinds of glorified excuses... How can Taipei 101
new official - general managers
handle so many "demands" arriving one rapidly followed another ? ( Chinese version:
台北101一向是全台灣所有「偽善者」們最眼紅的舞台！由於大樓包含「官股」持有，因此舉凡各種想要到101大樓「免費停車、安插人事、代訂餐廳、消費簽單、借地點辦活動」，甚至肖想利用大樓外觀燈光秀「大搞人脈公關」；各種八方來的關說，平日死命透過各種管道，就想鑽進101！
之所以說是「偽善者」，因為那些想要染指的意圖，總會「找些冠冕堂皇的理由」！其中不出所料，「立委民代」的各種說法與折騰最多；「權貴富商」們，則最想利用大樓燈光秀來搞些兩岸交際目的；此外則是以台北市政府在內的「政府機關」最愛找各種名義想徵用101的場地設備。
... 官股...將要如何面對一波波官商即將蜂擁而至的「偽善者們的要求」？full text ref.
to
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20141030/36177847/%E8%98%8B%E4%B8%AD%E4%BF%A1%EF%BC%9A%E5%81%BD%E5%96%84%E8%80%85%E5%80%91%E7%9A%84%E3%80%8C101%E3%80%8D%EF%BC%88%E7%8E%8B%E5%B0%9A%E6%99%BA%EF%BC%89
)
