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Postby dimwit » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:43 am

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Japanese broadcasting companies including NHK plan to build a tower larger than the CN Tower, currently the world tallest free standing structure.

Tokyo plans to outdo Toronto

From the Toronto Star

TOKYO - Japan's major broadcast networks are nearing completion on plans to build the world's tallest tower in Tokyo, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday.

The tower — to be 600 metres tall — will be used for terrestrial digital broadcasting at a cost of some $420 million (U.S.), the national newspaper, Yomiuri, reported. It is scheduled for completion in 2011.

Officials from Japan's public broadcaster NHK and five Tokyo-based commercial broadcasting companies are involved in the project.

Kinji Terada, a spokesman of NHK, said officials are now "in a final stage of co-ordination" in picking the location for the tower in Tokyo's old entertainment area in Sumida ward.


Of course us Canadians will be be suffering from penis envy.:)
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Postby chidsta » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:01 am

what about earthquakes?? Its just gonna collapse isn't it?
what a waste of money.
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:31 am

For those wondering at home (like I was), there is apparently a difference between a building and a tower in the measurements for 'world's tallest'

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0886190.html
NOTES: Height is from top to bottom, antennas included. A tower differs from a building in that the latter has floors, and is designed for residential, business, or manufacturing use. The structures listed here are principally telecommunications towers, and while they may have observation decks or restaurants, they do not have floors all the way up. Towers and buildings are freestanding structures; this list does not include masts supported by guy wires.


While the CN tower is world's tallest tower, the Taipei 101 (pictured in the orginal post) is the world's tallest building.
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Postby Greji » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:54 am

dimwit wrote:Of course us Canadians will be be suffering from penis envy.:)


I don't suppose you want me to comment on that do you?
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Postby dimwit » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:52 pm

I guess the point is this; the CN Tower was built in 1976 as a TV/Radio tower to improve local reception, in particular to allow terrestrial broadcasts to reach Buffalo New York and Niagara Penisula. It was built in an age where cable TV consisted of a guy with a studder announcing Lion's Club events. With the expansion of cable and satellite TV the CN Tower's communication function is becoming increasing superfluous. Nowdays, it is mostly just a tourist site. Giving today's broadcast technology it is very doubtful that it would have been built. This is the principle reason no one was bothered to top the CN Tower is the last 30 years.

Building a tower in Tokyo makes even less sense, the CN Tower broadcast reach is helped by the very flat terrain of southern Ontario and upper state New York. The mountain terrain surrounding Kanto is a big factor in limiting the range that one terrestial antenae can reach.

Sounds like another big dumb construction project to try to attract people to Tokyo.:)
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Postby Yorik » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:55 pm

Just up the output power.. Being a broadcast tech, I ahve seen some BIG towers and BIG transmitters. I would love to climb that thing.. The view would be amazing, stuff coming down though, that would take forever, I think I'd prefer to tak my chute for that..
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Postby Taro Toporific » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:01 pm

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World's tallest storey is destined to have a premature ending
The Times, Sunday Times, March 18, 2006
THE world's tallest building will get the go-ahead next week, but the 610m-high (2,100ft) Sumida Tower will hold the lofty title for only a few weeks.
The shining steel structure will soar above the Asakusa tourist district of Central Tokyo after approval is granted by the city authorities.
But even were construction of the tower to start tomorrow, it would enjoy only a brief reign at the top of the world: its projected completion date in 2009 is very close to that of the Burj Dubai, which will be at least 80m taller.
The Japanese tower, laden with the satellite dishes and transmitters of six TV stations, will retain, for the time being, the crown of "world's tallest communications tower". It will surpass the CN Tower in Toronto by 57m....more...
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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:08 pm

Embrace yet another eye soar.
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Postby Mulboyne » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:25 am

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Postby dimwit » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:18 pm

The Rising Tower gets my vote. More of less is the same thing.:D
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Postby Behan » Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:37 pm

dimwit wrote:The mountain terrain surrounding Kanto is a big factor in limiting the range that one terrestial antenae can reach.


When I used to live in Kujukurimachi we couldn't get TV reception without using a booster. Just having a big antenna on your roof wasn't enough.

There is nothing resembling a mountain or hill around there. Maybe it's just the distance.

Couldn't they just put up lots of small, localized towers or borrow existing ones?

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Postby ttjereth » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:53 am

Behan wrote:When I used to live in Kujukurimachi we couldn't get TV reception without using a booster. Just having a big antenna on your roof wasn't enough.

There is nothing resembling a mountain or hill around there. Maybe it's just the distance.

Couldn't they just put up lots of small, localized towers or borrow existing ones?

Just adding my unsolicited two yen.:(

The place we are in now has a cable hookup with only the basic channels (nothing you couldn't get without cable) which is paid for by the power company because we are right next door to a power sub station and you can't get TV reception the cable.

They pay for this basic cable for the entire neighborhood.

Oh, and on the actual topic, I vote for the wonderful Engrish "Tokyo Sky Tree".

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Postby Kuang_Grade » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:54 pm

Dream Turret has a nice mecha sound to it
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Postby IkemenTommy » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:35 pm

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Postby Gilligan » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:10 pm

Captain Japan wrote:And it looks like Tokyo Sky Tree is the winner.


I'm sorry but that's just a pathetic name.

But since Blinky nixed calling the Oedo-sen the "Loop Line" because it wasn't really a loop, maybe he'll nix this because it's not really a tree.
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Postby baka tono » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:23 pm

So how many missiles will it hold?
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Postby Iraira » Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:26 pm

Gilligan wrote:I'm sorry but that's just a pathetic name.

But since Blinky nixed calling the Oedo-sen the "Loop Line" because it wasn't really a loop, maybe he'll nix this because it's not really a tree.



Yeah, the Oedo-sen kinda looks like a lasso, but I prefer to call it the jigoku sen, as you practically have to go down to the center of the earth to get to the platform at most of its stations. "Hi, I just arrived in Roppongi, on the Oedo Line, so I should be able to meet you in front of Armando in about 15-20 minutes, see yah."
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Postby Greji » Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:01 am

baka tono wrote:So how many missiles will it hold?


Incoming, or outgoing?
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Postby ttjereth » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:04 am

Iraira wrote:Yeah, the Oedo-sen kinda looks like a lasso, but I prefer to call it the jigoku sen, as you practically have to go down to the center of the earth to get to the platform at most of its stations. "Hi, I just arrived in Roppongi, on the Oedo Line, so I should be able to meet you in front of Armando in about 15-20 minutes, see yah."


I actually use Oedo in Morishita as a tourist attraction for visiting friends/family. Everyone's always amazed at how freaking far underground the damn thing is.

Glad I don't need to use it to commute (meh my daily commute consists of the meter from my bed to the PC at the moment...).

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Postby Mulboyne » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:22 am

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Postby Mulboyne » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:48 pm

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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:00 am

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Postby 2triky » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:25 am

Mulboyne wrote:Progress report:

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Amazing how a project like this can go from conception to execution yet in the States the world still hasn't seen anything built on the site of ground zero in New York, eight years on from 9/11.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:01 pm

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Postby Hikonejou » Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:41 pm

Nice! I can't wait to ride to the top of that thing. I bet the view is going to be spectacular!
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:58 pm

2triky wrote:Amazing how a project like this can go from conception to execution yet in the States the world still hasn't seen anything built on the site of ground zero in New York, eight years on from 9/11.

Well, a lot of that is due to various lawsuits/disputes over insurance repayment and other matters. If the Port Authority hadn't leased the property to another party for cash just prior to the attacks, the odds are it would be much further along...although the slow down in NYC commercial real estate after the attacks also did not help to get the thing moving quickly as well.
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Postby IkemenTommy » Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:44 pm

Hikonejou wrote:Nice! I can't wait to ride to the top of that thing. I bet the view is going to be spectacular!

That's only what you inakamon hicks do when you come to Tokyo to sightsee.
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