GERMANY POSTCARD COLLECTION

 

Cologne Cathedral (Tallest in the world from 1880 to 1884)

U.A.E. (Dubai) POSTCARD COLLECTION

BURJ AL ARAB

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The world's only 7 star Hotel' since 1999

Fourth Tallest Hotel in the World

U.A.E. (Dubai) POSTCARD COLLECTION

BURJ KHALIFA

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Tallest in the world since 2010

Tallest Man-Made Structure in the World

CHINA (TAIWAN) POSTCARD COLLECTION

TAIPEI 101, (FORMERLY TAIPEI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER)

Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan

Tallest Building in the World (2004 – 2010)

Tallest and Largest Green Building in the World

TAIPEI 101, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE TAIPEI WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the worlds tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. In July 2011, the building was awarded LEED Platinum certification, the highest award in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and became the tallest and largest green building in the world.  Taipei 101 was designed by C.Y. Lee & partners and constructed primarily by KTRT Joint Venture.  Construction started 1999 and was finished in 2004. The tower has served as an icon of modern Taiwan ever since it’s opening. Fireworks launched from Taipei 101 features prominently in international New Year's Eve broadcasts and the structure appears frequently in travel literature and international media.

Taipei 101 is a commercial offices, comprises 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground.  Architectural height: 509 m (1,669.9 ft), Roof: 449.2 m (1,473.8 ft), Top floor: 439 m (1,440.3 ft). The building was architecturally created as a symbol of the evolution of technology and Asian tradition. Its postmodernist approach to style incorporates traditional design elements and gives them modern treatments. The tower is designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes. A multi-level shopping mall adjoining the tower houses hundreds of stores, restaurants and clubs.

Taipei 101 is owned by the Taipei Financial Center Corporation (TFCC) and managed by the International division of Urban Retail Properties Corporation based in Chicago. The name originally planned for the building, Taipei World Financial Center, until 2003, was derived from the name of the owner. The original name in Chinese was literally, Taipei International Financial Center

MALAYSIA POSTCARDS COLLECTION

 

NATIONAL MONUMENT (TUGU NEGARA)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

World's Tallest Bronze Freestanding Sculpture Group

U.S.A POSTCARD COLLECTIONS

WORLD TRADE CENTER (Twin Towers)

New York City, U.S.A

Tallest Building in the World (1971 – 1973)

World Trade Center in New York City is 7 World Trade Center Building complex owned by Port Authority. World Trade Center was build to help stimulate urban renewal in Lower Manhattan. During the late 1940s and 1950s, economic growth was concentrated only Midtown Manhattan. The complex was located in New York City's Financial District and contained 13,400,000 square feet (1,240,000 m2) of office space.

“Twin Towers” featured in the complex, it was constructed from 1968 and completed in 1971, opened on April 4, 1973, and were destroyed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Architectural design was given by the Port Authority to the Minoru Yamasaki as lead architect and Emery Roth & Sons as associate architects.,

"Twin Towers", the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower), at 1,368 feet (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower)1,362 ft (415.0 m), were the tallest buildings in the world from 1971 to 1973 preceded the Empire State Building and surpassed by Willis Tower.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES POSTCARDS COLLECTION

BURJ KHALIFA

 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
 

Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة‎, "Khalifa Tower"), known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure in the world, at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).

Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010, and is part of the new 2 km2 (490-acre) development called Downtown Dubai at the 'First Interchange' along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago, with Adrian Smith as chief architect, and Bill Baker as chief structural engineer.  The primary contractor was Samsung C&T of South Korea.

 RECORD HOLDER

·   Tallest existing structure: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously KVLY-TV mast – 628.8 m or 2,063 ft)

·    Tallest structure ever built: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously Warsaw radio mast – 646.38 m or 2,121 ft)

·  Tallest freestanding structure: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously CN Tower – 553.3 m or 1,815 ft)

·    Tallest skyscraper (to top of spire): 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously Taipei 101 – 509.2 m or 1,671 ft)

·        Tallest skyscraper to top of antenna: 829.8 m (2,722 ft) (previously the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower – 527 m or 1,729 ft)

·         Building with most floors: 163 (previously World Trade Center – 110)

·         Building with world's highest occupied floor

·         World's highest elevator installation (situated inside a rod at the very top of the building)

·         World's longest travel distance elevators: 504m (1,654 ft)[16][17]

·         Highest vertical concrete pumping (for a building): 606 m (1,988 ft)

·         World's tallest structure that includes residential space

·         World's second highest outdoor observation deck: 124th floor at 452 m (1,483 ft) When it first opened, the observation deck was the highest outdoor observation deck in the World, but it has since been surpassed by Cloud Top 488 on top of Canton Tower.

·         World's highest installation of an aluminium and glass façade: 512 m (1,680 ft)

·         World's highest nightclub: 144th floor

·  World's highest restaurant (At.mosphere): 122nd floor at 442 m (1,450 ft) (previously 360, at a height of 350 m (1,148 ft) in CN Tower)

·         World's highest New Year display of fireworks.

·    World's second highest swimming pool: 76th floor (world's highest swimming pool is located on 118th floor of Ritz-Carlton Hotel at International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong).

CHINA POSTCARDS COLLECTION

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

- UNESCO HERITAGE SITE
- World Most
- Guinness Book of World Record holder
- World / Country / City  Famous landmark

Sender:
Thank you Jiaqi Liu of China
Date Received: Oct. 25, 2013

General information Type: Fortification         Country: China Construction started: 7th century BC Technical details   Size:  21,196 km (13,171 mi) 

UNESCO World Heritage Site:   Official name: The Great Wall   Type: Cultural   Criteria: i, ii, iii, iv, vi
Designated: 1987 (11th session)    Reference No.: 438 State Party: China   Region: Asia-Pacific

Great Wall of China             Literal meaning.... long fortres

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.

The Great Wall of China is the longest in the world and has a main-line length of 3460km 2150miles - nearly three times the length of Britain - plus 3530 km 2195 miles of branches and spurs. Construction of the wall began during the reign of Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (220-206BC). Its height varies from 4.5 to 12m 15 to 39ft and it is up to 9.8m 32ft thick. It runs from Shanhaiguan, on the Gulf of Bohai, to Yumenguan and Yangguan and was kept in repair up to the 16th century. Some 51.5km 32miles of the wall have been destroyed since 1966, and part of the wall was blown up to make way for a dam in July 1979. 

The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi). This is made up of 6,259 km (3,889 mi) sections of actual wall, 359 km (223 mi) of trenches and 2,232 km (1,387 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. 

Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi).

Guinness World Record Collection

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

- UNESCO HERITAGE SITE
- World Most
- Guinness Book of World Record holder
- World / Country / City  Famous landmark

Sender:

Thank you Victoria Jane of Malaysia

Date Received: Oct. 10, 2013

General information Type: Fortification         Country: China  Construction started: 7th century BC Technical details    Size:  21,196 km (13,171 mi) 

UNESCO World Heritage Site:   Official name: The Great Wall   Type: Cultural   Criteria: i, ii, iii, iv, vi

Designated: 1987 (11th session)    Reference No.: 438 State Party: China   Region: Asia-Pacific

Great Wall of China             Literal meaning.... long fortres

The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China in part to protect the Chinese Empire or its prototypical states against intrusions by various nomadic groups or military incursions by various warlike peoples or forces. Several walls were being built as early as the 7th century BC; these, later joined together and made bigger and stronger, are now collectively referred to as the Great Wall. Little of that wall remains. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced; the majority of the existing wall was reconstructed during the Ming Dynasty.

The Great Wall of China is the longest in the world and has a main-line length of 3460km 2150miles - nearly three times the length of Britain - plus 3530 km 2195 miles of branches and spurs. Construction of the wall began during the reign of Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang (220-206BC). Its height varies from 4.5 to 12m 15 to 39ft and it is up to 9.8m 32ft thick. It runs from Shanhaiguan, on the Gulf of Bohai, to Yumenguan and Yangguan and was kept in repair up to the 16th century. Some 51.5km 32miles of the wall have been destroyed since 1966, and part of the wall was blown up to make way for a dam in July 1979. 

The Great Wall stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east, to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi). This is made up of 6,259 km (3,889 mi) sections of actual wall, 359 km (223 mi) of trenches and 2,232 km (1,387 mi) of natural defensive barriers such as hills and rivers. 

Another archaeological survey found that the entire wall with all of its branches measure out to be 21,196 km (13,171 mi).

U.S.A POSTCARD COLLECTION

The San Francisco - Oakland bay bridge (Bay Bridge)
2 Guinness Book of World Record holder

The Bay Bridge Sets Two World Records!

The Guinness World Records has crowned the new East Span the widest bridge, with a total deck width of 258.33 feet (78.740 m), including 10 lanes of roadway, a 15.5-ft-wide (4.724-m) bike path and a gap where the central tower supports the two bridge deck sections.

The new bridge has also been honored with the title for longest self-anchored suspension span bridge in the world, with a length of 2,047 feet.