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[feeutfo]

I rather liked the CN tower where you can walk on a glass floor and imagine it giving way, and the mess you'd make on the pavement 1,400 feet below.

Kevin

Is that the one in Canada? I believe the spinnaker in Portsmouth has a glass panel in the floor, funny, obviously can't fall, but still ....

[Dishevelled Den]

I rather liked the CN tower where you can walk on a glass floor and imagine it giving way, and the mess you'd make on the pavement 1,400 feet below.

Kevin

Is that the one in Canada? I believe the spinnaker in Portsmouth has a glass panel in the floor, funny, obviously can't fall, but still ....

That's the one, Chris - a very impressive building indeed and you're right, it's odd to seemingly stand on nothing but glass at such a height.

I had to go up alone as my wife flatly refused to accompany me thinking I had taken leave of my senses.

[aaronjb]

I rather liked the CN tower where you can walk on a glass floor and imagine it giving way, and the mess you'd make on the pavement 1,400 feet below.

Ahh sod that for a game of soldiers..  I barely stuck my toes out on the glass in the Tokyo Tower and that's only 475ft in the air! 

[henryd]

I have been to the top of the eifell tower and that was high enough for me,like looking out of an aeroplane

Did you feel it sway in the wind ? It was all over the place when we where there. 

yes and not long after we came down they stopped people going to the top due too the wind

[Chris_H]

I have been to the top of the eifell tower and that was high enough for me,like looking out of an aeroplane

Did you feel it sway in the wind ? It was all over the place when we where there. 

yes and not long after we came down they stopped people going to the top due too the wind

And wind can be accompanied by unpleasantness that does not sit well on glass floors!

[henryd]

I have been to the top of the eifell tower and that was high enough for me,like looking out of an aeroplane

Did you feel it sway in the wind ? It was all over the place when we where there. 

yes and not long after we came down they stopped people going to the top due too the wind

And wind can be accompanied by unpleasantness that does not sit well on glass floors!

 

[Pitchfork]

Been up the CN tower in Toronto which is nothing compared with Tower 101 in Taipei which I have also been up

[jonnycool]

I've seen that one before too - I'll not be clicking on it again  made me feel physically ill every time you could see the ground!

I do not do well with high places  The highest I've been was the Taipei 101 tower in .. Taipei - nearly 1300ft up on the outside observation deck. My face was a combination of  and  and 

The elevator ride at almost 40mph is a trip, though, as is the engineering behind the giant tuned mass damper on the 89th floor (on seeing which, my then girlfriend said "I hope there's an earthquake so we can see it work!"  ) - worth a visit, even if you don't like heights

Think I've seen this on the telly, is it a sort of slide bearing where the top half slides about over the bottom half?

[aaronjb]

It's basically a giant dangling ball 730 tons of steel plate suspended by a set of eight cables from the 91st floor with a set of dampers (just like shock absorbers) attaching it to the 87th floor.

Inside the building the whole set of floors from 87 to 91 is cut away with a walkway and railing around it on the floors between the two (only two are open to the public though) so you can stand and .. if you're lucky (or not, depending how you look at it!) watch it move in an earthquake

Very cool.. I would kinda like to see it moving, although I'm not sure about being 1300ft in the air in an earthquake! (There was a small quake while I was there, but I was tucked up in bed - woke up to find the bed rolling around the room and the bathroom door swinging on it's own, rolled over, and went back to sleep  )

[edit] A picture is worth a thousand words:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taipei_101_Tuned_Mass_Damper.png

[jonnycool]

Ah, thanks aaron, isn't this the tower that suffered an earthquake halfway through construction, resulting in a crane falling from the top?

[aaronjb]

I didn't know that, but you're right, it is - two cranes, according to google, from the 50-somethingth floor - with their operators inside, it appears