GUANGZHOU | Guangzhou TV Tower | 618 M - Pinnacle / 454 M - Roof | 37 FLOORS | T/O

[JDRCRASH]

I'm starting to adore this tower. Its very artistic and unique!

[Rise To The Top]

Originally Posted by NYC4Life

Gwong-zau

No, Gwong-joe. Zh is said like a j, ou is o.

[NYC4Life]

You're right. Here's the pronounciation from a native speaker:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/55/G0295500.wav

[jowens]

Originally Posted by Rise To The Top

No, Gwong-joe. Zh is said like a j, ou is o.

Can-ton was easier.

[Rise To The Top]

Originally Posted by NYC4Life

You're right. Here's the pronounciation from a native speaker:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/wavs/55/G0295500.wav

Yea, being half chinese helps a bit .

[Rise To The Top]

From skyscrapers.cn - July 14th













July 18th, by H.Y

[muppet]

that will be amazing once done. I GOT to see it, next Im in Hong KOng ways.

[Northwest]

Great lighting!!

I love how it cycles through the colors! Cant wait to see this effect in real time, is there anyone in Guangzhou able to put a vid on YouTube? How much time between the color shifts? This will be simply incredible at night.

I hope the dynamic lighting will be installed from the base all the way up to 450 meters.

[neverdone]

Originally Posted by Rise To The Top

By 談實

I have seen this in other asian cities. What are those steel bars on the roofs of the buildings?

[kfunck1]

kind of reminds me of the finger trap things

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by neverdone

I have seen this in other asian cities. What are those steel bars on the roofs of the buildings?

It's just the style of the architecture.

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

It's just the style of the architecture.

I'd say they're there to make you think there's some style to the architecture.

[America 117]

this is a joke right ?
there really making this ugly thing!

[Fury]

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Fantastic looking tower.

I've been saving pics of this one since the start - it's coming along nicely.

The lighting scheme looks good also.

[Aleks]

Why would it be a joke? I don't really see anything ugly about this tower. It's actually one of the best structures U/C right now.

I love the color effects. I need to go see Guangzhou later on in life. Definitely a very nice Chinese city and this tower is just amazing.

[treras93]

Definitely

in the renders i thought it would be ugly but as its coming up i think its one of the sweets U/C towers going up!

[staff]

Official height is 618m. Can a mod change the thread title?

Originally Posted by venisusky

i'm sure that~~According to the latest information(from 2007.6.2)
GTVT is 618 m height ,not 610.58 m..it will higher than new tokyo tower (611 m)..

According to the HIT Harbin Institute of Technology site：（哈尔滨工业大学网页之相关技术参与介绍）（中文Chinese）
http://news.hit.edu.cn/articles/2007/06-21/06163007.htm

detail~：

（chinese）
广州新电视塔位于广州市新中轴线和珠江南岸的交汇处，处于市中心区，总建筑高度为618米，建成后为目前世界第一高塔，成为广州市标志性建筑。新电视塔规划总面积为175,458平方米，是一个多功能景观塔，具有广播电视发射、观光、游乐、餐饮、城市建设展示等功能，其中分为5个功能段，分别为海洋区、沙漠带、亚热带、热带雨林区和冰原区。

（english）
Guangzhou New TV Tower in Guangzhou City in the new axis of the south bank of the Pearl River and Interchange, in the town centre, “the building height of 618 meters”, after the completion of the current world's first tower, a landmark building in Guangzhou City. New TV Tower planning a total area of 175,458 square meters, is a multi-functional landscape tower, launching a radio and television, tourism, recreation, dining, urban construction, display, and other functions, which is divided into five functional, the marine areas, respectively, with the desert , Subtropical and tropical rain forest and ice sheet area.

Testing out the main lighting scheme;








It's beautiful!

[Aleks]

Yes, it's like the CN of China. Imagine this city 20 years from now. They would make some crazy Olympics right durr.

[staff]

Aleks0o01,

Could you change the thread title, please?

[Dequal]

What's the other huge skyskraper under construction?