About a building

This tuesday we got an assignment to find two famous building, and write down some facts about them. I chose the Azadi Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center.

Azadi Tower, Iran
- Architect: Hossein Amanat
- The tower was completed in 1971
- It was build in commemoration of the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire
- The tower have a museum on the basement floor, called Azadi Museum
- The building is 45 m (148 ft) high

The tower was originally named the Shahyad Tower, meaning Kings' Memorial, but got the name Azadi Tower, meaning Freedom Tower, after the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
The tower is now a symbol of the country's revival. The building material that are used is marble.

Shanghai World Financial Center, China
- Architect: The company Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Started buliding in 1997, completed in 2008, had the opening 28th of august 2008
- The building cost 1.20 billion American dollars
- The building is a mixed-use skyscraper
   - Consiting of offices
   - Hotels
   - Conference rooms
   - Observation decks
   - Ground-floor shopping malls
- The hight of the building
   - Atenna spire: 494,4 m (1,622.0 ft)
   - Roof: 487,4 m (1,559.1 ft)
   - Top Floor: 474,0 m (1,555.1 ft)
- Floors
   - Elevator count: 91
   - Floor count: 101

In 2008 the center was named by architects as the year's best completed skyscraper.
For now the building are the world second tallest, but have the tallest observation deck in the world.
The whole at the top of the building is ment for less windresistens, so it handel the windy weather in that part of China very well. There has been a lot of arguments about that whole, some ment it symolised the rising sun (red dott in the chinese flag), and should then be round and not square.

I chose this two building becouse I thougt both of them are so unique in their style, and they are so different from each other. It also are two buildings I would like to travel to and see with my own eyes.