2. What you are seeing is the
Stratosphere.
This is a hotel of the city of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is full of hotels and
casinos with the most exotic
architectural forms.
But give it another look!
Do you see anything
extraordinary?
3. Closer.......
The Tower is 350 meters
high, equivalent to 110 floors.
4. It’s a panoramic tower!
We see below, Brasil Telecom
Tower in the city of Curitiba. It is
110 meters tall.
5. But the tower that we see here is
special...
What strange thing is that at the
top of the building?
6.
7. YES – you are right!
An amusement park with four
of those "toys" normally found
in parks on the ground?
8. ... It is a rollercoaster -- at the top of the tower!
9.
10. A second “fun ride" is an
elevator, which rises to the top and
then descends, making people
feel the effect of up to four times
the gravitational force!
11.
12. The other "fun ride"
is sort of a corridor.
It “simulates” as if
it’s going to go into
space…..but it
stops at the last
minute.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17. And now the last one…..
People sit on the chairs and see what happens....
The whole unit begins to rotate at high speed.
The effect of the centrifugal force causes the mechanism to start to open
up and...
