Tourist attraction
Sky Tower
Concrete telecommunications spire engineered to sway a metre in the wind, with glass-floor observation decks and a wire-guided plunge off the side.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Auckland's Sky Tower follows two sides of the same building: the stunt platform where strangers step off two hundred metres up on a wire, and the engineering that let the 1997 spire survive cyclones and earthquakes by design. Fletcher Construction's engineers built it to bend rather than resist, flexing under wind and quake alike. One floor below the jump deck, New Zealand's only revolving restaurant turns so slowly most diners never notice they've moved.
This audio guide was created using AI.