Five years ago, the Taipei 101 skyscraper was opened.

Taipei - Five years ago, on December 31, 2004, the tallest skyscraper in the world, Taipei 101, was ceremonially opened in Taiwan. The cornerstone of the 509-meter-high building with 101 floors was laid six years earlier.
    The construction, covered with tinted glass reflecting the skies and vaguely resembling a bamboo stalk, was designed by the Taiwanese architectural firm C. Y. Lee & Partners, and the cost of its construction exceeded 1.8 billion US dollars (about 33 billion crowns).
    Taipei 101 pushed the two Malaysian Petronas Towers, which measure 452 meters, from the top of the world's tallest buildings list. However, in 2007, the tallest standing building became the then still under-construction Burj Dubai skyscraper (Dubai Tower) in the United Arab Emirates. The building, which surpasses even the tallest television towers, is set to be officially opened on January 4.