Taipei 101 and Forbidden City
Back to back, I watched the Taipei 101 and the Forbidden City on TV.
Wang from the architect team and Lin Hong-min admit the height was not the originally planned scale. They were too busy to solve countless problems during construction, and they certainly felt that it was an impossible task to accomplish. A 508 meters tall building, 8 mega giant column structures, a more than 600 tons mass tuned damper on the height of more than 300 meters, and a structure combining strength and flexibility to against storms and earthquakes, all the above have made the Taipei 101 the bench mark of world architecture history.
There are two parts of Forbidden City, I only saw part I. Starting the construction from early 1400. It had taken ten years for recruiting thousands craftsmen and gathering Nanmu logs and construction materials. 9999 rooms in the City, now is called the Palace Museum in Beijing. The front part of the City was used to be as the area for emperors meeting government officials, celebrating lunar new years, or having wedding ceremonies. The private and latter part of the City was the residential area for emperor and wives (queens and concubines). I visited it in 2006, and I was "fascinated" by the Garden. There are countless exotic trees and flowers and yet most of them are handcrafted and controlled the growing direction. I guess the emperor from every different dynasty seriously thought that he was the son of the god, even though two huge natural disasters and a human careless fire had destroyed the Supreme Harmony Hall, they were still very confident about their will and blindness.
Wang from the architect team and Lin Hong-min admit the height was not the originally planned scale. They were too busy to solve countless problems during construction, and they certainly felt that it was an impossible task to accomplish. A 508 meters tall building, 8 mega giant column structures, a more than 600 tons mass tuned damper on the height of more than 300 meters, and a structure combining strength and flexibility to against storms and earthquakes, all the above have made the Taipei 101 the bench mark of world architecture history.
There are two parts of Forbidden City, I only saw part I. Starting the construction from early 1400. It had taken ten years for recruiting thousands craftsmen and gathering Nanmu logs and construction materials. 9999 rooms in the City, now is called the Palace Museum in Beijing. The front part of the City was used to be as the area for emperors meeting government officials, celebrating lunar new years, or having wedding ceremonies. The private and latter part of the City was the residential area for emperor and wives (queens and concubines). I visited it in 2006, and I was "fascinated" by the Garden. There are countless exotic trees and flowers and yet most of them are handcrafted and controlled the growing direction. I guess the emperor from every different dynasty seriously thought that he was the son of the god, even though two huge natural disasters and a human careless fire had destroyed the Supreme Harmony Hall, they were still very confident about their will and blindness.
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