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  • Urbanism
  • 23 Mar 2026
  • 6 min

Tall Stories 501: How does Taipei 101 stay standing? It’s what’s inside that counts

I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images

  • The Urbanist
  • Urbanism
  • 6 min

Clarissa Wei climbs Taiwan’s best-known tower to investigate the clever engineering that keeps it in the sky.

Host
  • Andrew Tuck
Contributors
  • Andrew Tuck
  • Clarissa Wei
  • David Stevens

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