cantontower广州塔英文介绍.docx

Canton TowerCanton Tower, also known as Guangzhou TV Sightseeing Tower, is a tower near Chigang Pagoda, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong. It is one of the world’s most spectacular new buildings, which was topped-out in 2009 and became operational in 2010.The tower is designed by Dutch Barbara couples. The designers aim was to design a free-form tower with a rich and human-like identity that would represent Guangzhou as a dynamic and exciting city. They also wanted it would look as if ‘in movement’ and ‘alive’. The result is the tower, very slender and tall, that bears similarities with t