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Originally Posted by stormkingfan

I read somewhere that located beneath the slant, is a large steel sphere. It acts as a counterweight for, when the tower sways in the wind, the sphere equalizes the sway by rolling in the opposite direction. How that works exactly, I don't know, but that's one way to keep "fragile" types from freaking at work.

There is a mass damper, but it's not a sphere... it's just a giant ugly concrete block, unlike the dramatic sphere that Taipei 101 has.