West Pearl Tower (Chinese: 四川广播电视塔) is a tower built of reinforced concrete located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. At 339 m (1,112.2 ft) high, the West Pearl Tower is the fourth tallest tower in China. West Pearl Tower started construction in 1992, but constructions was halted later in the year due to budgeting problems. Constructions restarted in 1998 and it was completed in 2004. It was mainly built to help TV Networks across Chengdu, but since then it has expanded to become a revolving restaurant with a 360 degree view of the city and as a recreational/commercial mall for Chengdu.
Famous quotes containing the words west, pearl and/or tower:
“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)
“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.