Taipei 101

I decided to spend my last full day in Taiwan in its capital and biggest city, Taipei. One of the things I wanted to do there was go to the world's tallest building, Taipei 101 (for now, they're finishing a building in Dubai that's taller within the next couple of months.)
It's named 101 (1-o-1) because it has, yes, 101 floors. It's hard to really get a sense of the scale of the building from these pictures, but it's bloody big. The architect designed it to look like a stalk of bamboo.
You can go to an observation deck with a kind of mini-museum on around the 90th floor, for about $13. Apparently it has the world's fastest elevators, and they just shoot you all the way up. The views from the top were quite interesting, even with the smog.
Around the 88th floor, they have this huge yellow ball which is a tuned mass damper. It weighs about 730 tons, and is used to stabilize the building. In front of it, you can see one of the 101's mascots. You'll notice his eyes are 1s and his nose is a 0 - very clever.
I took this picture on my way back to the subway, and you can see how it dwarfs everything around it. It's a little hard to make out in this picture, but if you look closely, near the top of the building, they have a bunch of lights on in some of the rooms arranged to spell "Taiwan" in English.