The Edge

A movable transparent box called, The Edge, or called Skydeck 88 has been designed and can move out of the Eureka Tower (尤卡利大樓) at its 88th floor in Melborne, Australia. It is a glass box which projects 3 metres (about 10 feet) out from the building with visitors inside, suspended almost 300 metres (984 feet) above the ground. Since it is hanging in mid-air, certainly it will make some people feel horrified.

Eureka Tower has 92 floors in all. Not only it ranks the first tallest apartment building in the world, it also possesses the fastest lifts in the Southern Hemisphere.

To experience what it is like in this glass box, people have to pay for entry and wear coats to the shoes to protect the glass floors from being scratched. No photography is allowed inside. Once all the people are inside a white room with windows opaque, the floor of this box begins to move at 10cm per second over the edge of the building. The sound of metal beating and the sharp noise of glass breaking are heard. Once fully extended over the edge, the glass windows become clear.

The scenery outside the window is magnificent, but the legs of those who are timid are shaking and they are screaming with fright.