Key facts
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Mixed Use ( Office building , Hotel , Shopping mall )
- Location
- Lingya , Kaohsiung , Taiwan
- Cost
- NT$ 5 billion
- Architectural
- 347.5 m (1,140 ft)
- Tip
- 378.0 m (1,240 ft)
- Antenna spire
- 378.0 m (1,240 ft)
- Roof
- 347.5 m (1,140 ft)
- Top floor
- 341.0 m (1,119 ft)
- Observatory
- 341.0 m (1,119 ft)
- Floor count
- 85 (+5 basement floors)
- Floor area
- 306,337 m (3,297,384 sq ft)
- Architect
- C.Y. Lee
- Structural engineer
- Evergreen Consulting Engineering
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- skyscraper
- Country
- Taiwan
- Located in
- Lingya District
- Area
- 3063489
- Image
- Kaohsiung 85 Sky Tower 01.jpg
- Height
- 323
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- floors above ground
- 85
- Commons category
- Tuntex Sky Tower
- architect
- C. Y. Lee
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- number of elevators
- 54
- phone number
- +886-980-018-666
- street address
- Lingya District
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Encyclopedic overview
85 Sky Tower (Chinese: 高雄85大樓; pinyin: Gāoxióng 85 Dàlóu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ko-hiông 85 Tōa-lâu), formerly known as the T & C Tower or Tuntex Sky Tower, is an 85-story skyscraper in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The structure is 347.5 m (1,140 ft) high. An antenna increases the pinnacle height to 378 m (1,240 ft). Constructed from 1994 to 1997 by the now-defunct Tuntex Group, it is the tallest building in Kaohsiung, and the 2nd tallest in Taiwan after the Taipei 101.
As of 2023, the building is almost entirely unoccupied except for a few condominiums (some subleased as short-term rentals) and offices from the 12th to 35th floors. Many floors have not been used in decades, and their conditions have become dirty and run-down. When the building first opened, it once housed a department store, indoor amusement park, five-star hotel, observatory, steakhouse and disco, VIP club and spa, and other amenities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tuntex Sky Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.