As of January 4, 2010 Taipei 101 officially became the second tallest building in the world, but that doesn’t take away the fact that it’s a really, really, really tall building.

Taipei 101 was the first attraction I visited on my trip to Taiwan but unfortunately, I lost the pictures! aaaahhh! don’t ask how it happened. It’s unfortunate because the views of Taipei weren’t the only thing to look at up there. The observatory has a lot of interesting graphic art covering the walls. Inside the staircases between the indoor observatory and outdoor observatory there were bright and colorful graphic depictions of the world’s major cities. The outdoor observatory had colorful cut-out/collage graphics around the building of fun nature/random silhuettes.

I do have one graphic goody to give a little taste of the art that can be found at the top of the building and to prove that I actually went there. To the left is a picture of my observatory entrance ticket. The Taipei 101 building with its one hundred and one floors is the blue and yellow building towering over  gray architectural feats of other great cities such as the Chrysler building at the bottom right. The style of the ticket kind of makes me think Art Deco. They really played around with the dimensions layering the the flat 2d buildings which can’t be seen as well in the photo. The moon might be a bit much but that’s just my opinion. Other than it’s a lovely ticket I’ll be keeping.

I hope it’s not too odd I might have enjoyed Taipei 101′s graphics a little more than the views. In my defense it was a bit cloudy that day.