Rooftop Observatory
The rooftop has an outdoor public observatory 488 m (1,601 ft) above the ground, which takes the form of a terraced elliptical space, roughly the size of a small city square. Opened in December 2011, it is currently the highest and largest outdoor observation deck in the World.
Sixteen transparent "crystal" passenger cars, each with a diameter of 3.2 m (10 ft) and able to carry four to six people, travel on a track round the edge of the tower's roof, taking between 20 and 40 minutes to circumnavigate the rooftop. The installation is described by the media as a ferris wheel; however, its passenger cars are not suspended from the rim of a wheel and remain horizontal without being fully rotated, and the track, which follows the incline of the roof, is closer to the horizontal than the vertical.
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