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Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai, China
Nothing else on earth quite looks like the Oriental Pearl. It was once the tallest structure on the Pudong side of Shanghai’s Huangpu River until it was overshadowed by the Shanghai World Financial Center in 2007. Designed by Jiang Huan Cheng of the Shanghai Modern Architectural Design Co. and completed in 1995, it stands 1,535 feet tall and is easily the world’s greatest assemblage of habitable disco balls (11!), housing several sightseeing observatories, a revolving restaurant, and a “space hotel.”
Tall Tale: Both Shanghai towers have recently been
dwarfed by the 2,001-foot-tall Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower.
—Karrie Jacobs
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