Canton Tower vs Q1 Tower

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The Canton Tower (Chinese: ???), officially Guangzhou TV Astronomical and Sightseeing Tower (Chinese: ???????????), is a 604-meter (1,982 feet )-tall multipurpose monitoring tower in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou (alternatively romanized as Canton). The tower was topped out in 2009 and it became operational on 29 September 2010 for the 2010 Asian Games.

The tower briefly held the title of tallest tower in the world, replacing the CN Tower, before being surpassed by the Tokyo Skytree. It was the tallest structure in China prior to the topping out of the Shanghai Tower on 3 August 2013, and is now the second tallest tower and the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.

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Q1 Tower (an abbreviation of Queensland Number One) is a 322.5-metre (1,058 feet ) skyscraper in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. The residential tower on the Gold Coast has been the world's tallest residential building from 2005 to 2011. As of 2020 it is the ninth-tallest residential tower in the world and is the tallest building in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, and the second-tallest freestanding construction in the Southern Hemisphere, behind the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand. The Q1 formally opened in November 2005. The landmark building was recognised as one of Queensland's icons during the state's 150th-birthday celebrations.

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