Talk:Tokyo Skytree/Archive 1

Renaming
I've never heard of it being called 第二東京タワー. On the news it's almost always simply called 新東京タワー (New Tokyo Tower) or even just 新しい東京タワー (the new Tokyo Tower). The online profile says that is is called 第二 but that doesn't mean much if nobody actually says that. 61.24.83.175 04:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the english translation newspaper I picked up in Tokyo last month (I can't remember which one it was) also refered to it as New Tokyo Tower, so I'd support renaming it. --Interiot 13:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * After checking the official website, it continuously references the tower as, "新タワー". It seems to call it "新東京タワー" once, the first time, on the About page, after which they use "新タワー" for short. I'm going to go ahead and rename this from "Sumida Tower" to "New Tokyo Tower". -- Masamunecyrus(talk)(contribs) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|25px| ]] 13:09, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair-use image
Anyone want to find a good fair-use image to put on this article? All of the other major skyscraper pages have them (Burj Dubai, Al Burj, Chicago Spire, etc...), and I think that it would greatly contribue to the article. There are several pictures on the official site, but I'm not sure if you can just grab a picture from the site, downscale it, and then call it ''fair-use'... -- Masamunecyrus(talk)(contribs) 13:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Design
Why is the tower built as lattice tower and not as concrete tower like CN Tower in Toronto or Ostankino Tower in Moscow? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.213.240 (talk) 16:26, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, the tower is a hybrid, a steel outer lattice with a core of reinforced concrete. The exact reasoning behind this is not clear to me. However, I'm willing to bet that the design team wanted to create a visual sibbling to the Tokyo Tower with the aditional structural and user benefits of having a central core.--Quarconi (talk) 14:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

The tallest structure in Japan
On 20 march 2010 the structure reached a height of 328 m, according to the Sky Tree website. In about a week from now the structure will surpass the Tokyo Tower and it'll become the tallest structure in Japan. Keep an eye out and get ready for an update to the article ;-) --Quarconi (talk) 14:06, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

On 29 March 2010 it's now 338-meter tall, effectively becoming the tallest structure in Japan…

Remove the copy editing needed banner?
Grammatically, the article looks perfect to me. --Edofmund (talk) 21:15, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Construction material
What is it made of? A concrete tower or a steel lattice tower - it is hard to tell from the images? Astronaut (talk) 12:11, 4 April 2011 (UTC)