When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on Wednesday, people inside the island’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, were protected ... a number of other design features that increase its ...

The Taipei 101 in Taiwan is massive. It is 508m tall and has 101 floors. It is also home to the world’s largest and heaviest tuned mass damper. Due to its vast size, the skyscraper is prone to ...

buildings also shook violently during what was Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years. But in a triumph of modern engineering, the soaring Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest skyscraper ...

The country’s tallest building, the 1,667-ft Taipei 101, appeared to perform well in the earthquake ... buildings that are not sufficiently quake resistant.

The resilience of Taipei 101, Taiwan's tallest building, against a recent earthquake highlights the ... At the heart of its quake-resistant design is the TMD, a 660-ton steel sphere suspended ...

Taiwan has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years ... shows the island's tallest building – the $1.8 billion Taipei 101 skyscraper – gently swaying like a stick in the breeze.

Thanks to his 'Tuned Mass Damper', a sort of maxi pendulum that balances the shocks, the Taipei 101 skyscraper indeed did not collapse after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that shook the small ...