The whole structure has 101 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. On the 89th floor is the inside observation room, and on the 91st floor in the world, will only be surpassed by the Shanghai World Financial Center. Taipei 101 was the owner of three out of four titles of the tallest buildings in the world when the skyscraper was built: The building of the highest structural point, the Supreme to the roof and the building of the highest occupied floor. It is one of the few buildings in the world equipped with double-deck elevators. Each elevator is designed with an aerodynamic shape, pressure stabilizer, an emergency braking system, as well as the world’s first anti-overshoot Three-state system. The cost for each of the elevators will be over $ 2 million. The building have got the world’s fastest elevators traveling at speeds of up to 1008 meters for minute (60.48 km / h) and down the 610 m / min. (36.6 km / h). For access to the 90th floor, passengers will need just 39 seconds. The highest speed rate is over 34 percent faster than the current fastest speed elevators located in the Yokohama Landmark Tower. The official opening ceremony of the roof of a skyscraper ceremony took place on July 1, 2003.





