New Tokyo Tower Becomes Tokyo Sky Tree
To meet the city's future demand for digital broadcasting, NTT and five other broadcasters are working together to erect a massive 610m tower on the east side of Tokyo. Until recently the project was called the New Tokyo Tower. However a vote was held and it has now become the Tokyo Sky Tree. Pretty lame if you ask me. They should have gone with the second place name of Tokyo Edo Tower. Construction will begin next month and end in December of 2011.
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If completed as scheduled, the Tokyo Sky Tree will be the largest free standing tower in the world. The CNN tower in Toronto currently holds the title at 533m.
If completed today it would be the worlds tallest structure. However, that honor will go to the Burj Dubai which is to be completed next year. That skyscraper is planned to reach an incredible 818m.
Tokyo Sky Tree will make Tokyo Tower look like a small fry with its 277m height advantage.
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World's tallest communications tower to be 'Tokyo Sky Tree'