Project Team Profile

Taipei Financial Center Corporation

Taipei Financial Center Corporation (TFCC) is the developer, owner and operator of TAIPEI 101, the icon of Taipei City and the pride of Taiwan.

Main duties: Assign architects, engineers, consultants and contractors for Taipei 101 construction works.

Architects

Assigned Architect: C.Y. Lee & Partners

Main duties: Directing the design of Taipei 101

Lead Architect

C.Y. Lee

Co-principal Architect

C.P. Wang

Their Strengths:

Eastern cultural issues, western scientific and technological civilization, architectural design innovation, environmental sustainability and human health considerations

Work Highlights:

Design Taipei 101 in the form of a traditional Chinese peak helps the view from indoors. With eight floors as a peak and structural entity, Taipei 101 marches upward by stacking a peak on the peak.
Added talisman symbol and dragon/phoenix motifs at appropriate places on the building
Applied Chinese traditional wood structure construction with tenon and mortise, and locks the upper eight peaks into the lower three peaks and demonstrates the stability of the building.

Message Taipei 101 would like to provide:

Oneness Theory: Inspired by the Chinese culture Taoism. The design emphasizes the integral entity, which is mutually interactive and closely related, with interchanging circulation at all times.
A Building is a Message: All things are mutually interactive. The messages of a building space and its body are the most critical media in our lives. Therefore, a building is both the message and the medium.
Fulfillment of the Origin: Convey the intent of ultimate fulfilment. Both individuals and groups have continuously pursued fulfilment in their life journeys.

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Structural engineers

Assigned Structural Engineers: Evergreen Consulting Engineering and Thornton Tomasetti

Main duties: Structural design and site supervision

Structural engineer for the entire project

Evergreen Consulting Engineering

Strength: High-rise Buildings design and site supervision, Special and Challenging Structures, Design on Wind and Seismic Control Devices & Construction Management

Structural engineer for the tuned mass damper

Thornton Tomasetti

Strength: Geostructural engineering, construction engineering, envelop renewable, material engineerings & astrophysics

Work Highlights:

Designed a tuned mass damper with a 730-ton pendulum that hangs from the 92nd floor to reduce the building movement caused by strong winds and earthquakes for occupant comfort
Used high-tech, energy-conserving, transparent glass materials and innovative lighting design to achieve a crystal-clear building.
Designed the tower’s high-speed elevators take only 39 seconds to reach the observatory on the 89th floor.
Co-designed the eight repeating pagoda-like modules, which have eight floors, a narrower floor plan base and a wider top varying between 2,000 and 2,500 square meters.
Designed a five-story deep basement and a surrounding six-story retail structure.

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Main Contractor (1st Phase)

Assigned Main Contractor for the 1st phase of construction: KTRT Joint Venture (A joint contracting team formed to win the tender for the construction of Taipei 101, including Kumagai Gumi, Taiwan Kumagai, RSEA Engineering and Ta-You-Wei Construction)

Main duties: Oversees and manages the construction of a building project