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Shin Kong Manhattan Building

high-rise office building in Taiwan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ106087973 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Shin Kong Manhattan Building (Chinese: 新光人壽曼哈頓世貿大樓) is a 17-story, 72 m (236 ft) high-rise office building completed in 2000 and located in Xinyi Special District, Taipei, Taiwan. Owned by Shin Kong Group, the building has a total floor area of 23,208.43 m2 (249,813.5 sq ft).

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Shin Kong Manhattan Building” as high-rise office building in Taiwan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shin, Kong and Manhattan.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Shin, Kong and Manhattan providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Shin Kong Manhattan Building”, the useful work is to connect “high-rise office building in Taiwan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106087973. Authority coordinates are 25.033, 121.561. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shin Kong Manhattan Building”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shin Kong Manhattan Building primary sources, Shin Kong Manhattan Building archive and Shin research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shin Kong Manhattan Building”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Shin Kong Manhattan Building” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.