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Guangzhou curbs plan for world's tallest tower
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-11-21 17:25

The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has scaled back plans to build the world's tallest tower.


The CITIC Plaza, the highest tower in Guangzhou (391m), is seen in this undated file photo. [newsphoto]

Media reported on Sunday that the municipal government of the capital of Guangdong province had rejected a design for a tower envisaged to stand from 580 to 608.8 metres (1,903 to 1,997 feet) tall.

Instead, Guangzhou will now take up a design for a 400-m (1,312-feet) tower, the Hong Kong government-funded radio station RTHK said on Sunday.

The new design falls 20 metres (66 feet) short of Shanghai's Jinmao tower, the tallest in China at 420 m (1,378 feet), and is only slightly higher than Guangzhou's CITIC Plaza, which stands 391 m (1,283 feet) tall and dominates the city's skyline.

The world's highest office tower is the World Financial Centre in Taipei, China's Taiwan Province, at a height of 508 m (1,667 ft).



 
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