Panna wrote:

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This building is not most  tallest of Thailand because  Project name :  The River Condo and Office  Near  Jaowpaya River  have 91 floor  , I Think the very most in Thailand

They(Thai) grow more we a lot of

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It's Ocean 1 Tower in Pattaya city Choburi province have 91 floor 327 Meters.

samakomlao wrote:

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This is the tallest building in Laos, I guess

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Anonymous wrote:

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Not all Lao envy Thailand that they have such a big big projects

But

Not all Lao not to dreams to have such a big big projects like that as well

For me

I really envy them

But

I understand the situation of our country

One Day

We will make it

Eventhough, it might not be happened in my life time

But in the next new Lao generation will be the one who make it happen

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Anyway if this kind of building would make lots of benefit to Laotian, make the life of Laotian better then I would support them to build.

If not, I think no one would support.

you have to think of its benefit to Laos and its people first.

Destined wrote:

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first of all i agree with the comment above we are not envious with any one. when the day comes we will start creating master pieces of our own. but in the mean time i don't think their would be any need for lao to create tall buildings such as that in one shot. it would take time we would gradually start building taller and taller buildings.

one thing is lao has a very low population it would be a waste to build a building like that we still have plenty of land and we want to develop the whole country not just one city.

plus only 15 million in thailand? yeah right there are about 15 million lao ethnic in thailand and the total thai population is bout 65 million people??? where did u get only 15 million people from u gotta be dreaming or pulling things out of ur day dreams.


i can see why there would a need for thailand to build a structure like that in bangkok alone because they don't want to expand their wealth any where else and it is very crowded in bangkok so it would ease housing i guess.

so any way when Lao start building tall sky skrapers like that i hope it will have a Lao twist in it as well.

just my 2 cents 

lao is destined to be the greatest.

-- Edited by Destined on Tuesday 4th of August 2009 03:24:49 PM

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Destined wrote:

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thanks for pointing that out i did read wrong.

but my opinion still stands 15 million in bangkok compared to less then 1 million in vientiane laos would not need such a building yett. but everthing else i said still stands. and again their is more lao in thailand then there is in lao. i read somehwere that there were around 15 to 16 million lao ethnic living in thailand. numbers could have grown from then and there are only 6 million lao in laos.

 

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1. Malaysia Petronas Tower 1 (88 floors)
2. Thailand Baiyoke Tower II (85 floors)
3. Singapore Republic Plaza (66 floors)
4. Philippines PBCOM Tower (55 floors)
5. Indonesia Wisma 46 (50 floors)
6. Vietnam Saigon Trade Center (33 floors)
7. Cambodia OCIC Tower (32 floors)
8. Myanmar Traders Hotel (22 floors)
9. Brunei Ministry of Finance Building (21 floors)
10. Laos Don Chan Palace Hotel, (14 floors)

Pictures of those buildings

Malaysia

Thailand

Singapore

Philippines

Indonesia

Vietnam

Cambodia

Myanmar

Brunei

Laos

Anonymous wrote:

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I really envy when I have seen this picture of the Mahanakhon Building in Bangkok that going to complete by end of the year 2012 and then Vietnam also rising the tallest building in Saigon will be taller than in Bangkok.

When will we have such a taller buiding like them?






Here is some of the details

Beginning in Fall 2009, the city of Bangkok – home to an estimated 15 million people – will start to embrace an unprecedented new architectural manifestation of its extraordinary ‘inner world’ when construction begins on MahaNakhon, a dazzling tower designed by internationally celebrated German architect Ole Scheeren, Partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).

With MahaNakhon, Scheeren, whose many landmark projects include the CCTV Tower in Beijing, has crafted a gleaming 77-storey skyscraper that will be the tallest building in Thailand’s capital. The design moves beyond the traditional formula of a seamless, inert, glossy totem, and instead actively engages the city: MahaNakhon’s pixilated and carved presence embraces and connects to the surrounding urban fabric rather than overpowering it. Its glittering stacked surfaces, terraces and protrusions will simultaneously create the impression of digital pixilation and echo the irregularity of ancient mountain topography.

This architectural geography is conceived to convey the energy, intensity and inclusiveness of Thai society and celebrate Bangkok’s emergence as a true global capital, fitting the Thai meaning of the name MahaNakhon, translated as ‘great metropolis’. MahaNakhon is developed by PACE Development Co., Ltd. of Bangkok with joint venture partner Industrial Buildings Corporation Public Company Ltd (IBC).

The complex, at 150,000 square meters (approximately 1,6 million square feet) seeks to communicate intimately with Bangkok from the ground up: its series of components comprise MahaNakhon Square, a landscaped outdoor public plaza intended as a new public destination within the city; MahaNakhon Terraces, 10,000 square meters (nearly 110,000 square feet) of luxury retail space with lush gardens and terraces spread over multiple levels for restaurants, cafes and a 24 hour marketplace; The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Bangkok with 200 highly-customized single-level and duplex homes, each offering the atmosphere of a skybox penthouse, managed by The Ritz-Carlton with five-star amenities for all residents; The Bangkok Edition, a signature boutique hotel with 150 hotel rooms, a collaboration between Marriott International and renowned hotelier Ian Schrager; and a multi-level roof-top Sky Bar and restaurant.

Sorapoj Techakraisri, CEO of PACE Development describes MahaNakhon as, “the result of a strongly held wish to do something for Thailand that is both an enduring architectural symbol and a very real and practical example of a firm commitment to, and confidence in, our nation’s long term economic prosperity and cultural diversity. MahaNakhon will be the city’s tallest building, but more significantly it will accurately represent the audacity of Bangkok today – the optimism and strength of Thai culture and the value of that culture to Asia and the rest of the world.”

Dalit Braun, CEO of IBC, commented, “Every nation needs a symbol of confidence in its future. We believe MahaNakhon will perfectly embody the essence of a strong and forward looking country that is the gateway to Southeast Asia while serving as a bold architectural landmark. IBC feels especially privileged to be part of this truly imaginative project.”

According to its developers, MahaNakhon will be completed in 2012. Homes available at MahaNakhon will range in size from 125 square meters (1,350 square feet) to 830 square meters (8,930 square feet) with ceilings up to 3.5 meters high (approximately 11.5 feet).

The Building

With its distinctive sculptural appearance, MahaNakhon has been carefully carved to introduce a three-dimensional ribbon of architectural ‘pixels’ that circle the tower’s full height, as if excavating portions of the elegant glass curtain wall to reveal the inner life of the building – metaphorically and actually an architecture that encloses and protects its inhabitants while revealing the inner life of their city. The pixilation gives MahaNakhon an arresting profile on the skyline while generating a set of very special features to house the diverse functions of the building complex in an intelligently strategic way.

Ole Scheeren’s design for MahaNakhon dismantles the typical tower and podium typology to render not a tower in isolation but instead a skyscraper that melds with the city by gradually ‘dissolving’ the mass as it moves vertically between ground and sky. This effect begins with a series of generous, cascading indoor/outdoor terraces at The Hill – the 7-storey area of tower’s base housing luxury retail and dining. Here MahaNakhon’s architecture is articulated to evoke the shifting protrusions of a mountain landscape. The Hill Terraces fit keenly with the lush, cultivated tropical gardens that give way to the city’s own many green swaths.

MahaNakhon also features an adjacent freestanding 7-storey building known as the Cube, with multi-level indoor/outdoor terraces corresponding to those of the Hill Terraces across the expanse of an outdoor atrium. The outdoor atrium forms a natural valley, offering a network of social spaces with an extensive and carefully selected mix of dining and leisure facilities that serve the general public via a direct above-ground pedestrian link to the main CBD Skytrain station and plaza-level access, The Ritz-Carlton Residences in the main tower of MahaNakhon, as well as guests of The Bangkok Edition Hotel.

MahaNakhon Square, located in front of the tower, is intimately connected to the space between The Hill and Cube. This dynamic public plaza – intended as a meeting place, a spot for planned and spontaneous cultural events – will be a landscaped retreat for the city’s inhabitants, a gathering place, a rare venue for cultural and social interactivity, with direct connection to the Chongnonsi Skytrain station and future rapid bus transit system: an urban oasis that provides refuge from the intense daily clamor of greater Bangkok while offering constant easy access for reconnection to it.

The Ritz-Carlton Residences of MahaNahkon – 200 two to five bedroom homes on floors 24 through 73 of the building – will occupy projecting glass skyboxes with sweeping views and generous indoor/ outdoor spaces with plunge pools and oversized terraces uncommon to high-rise living in global capitals but well-suited to the tropical climate of Bangkok. The tower’s ‘pixels’ have been designed to maximize unobstructed panoramas for the residences, offering rare bird’s eye views of the city and the Chaophraya River.

Residences located in the non-pixilated portions of the tower will enjoy a parallel innovation: single-level and duplex units here offer grandly scaled double height living spaces equipped with custom-designed cassette curtain wall systems with floor-to-ceiling window walls and operable “bi-fold balcony windows,” as well as secondary operable ventilation panels. The bi-fold balcony windows feature glazing units that fold open inwards to the ceiling, providing an innovative and unprecedented conversion of indoor to outdoor space. Thus the MahaNakhon tower enjoys great levels of permeability and a relationship to the world beyond.

The top of the MahaNakhon tower houses a multi-level three-floor Sky Bar and restaurant with dramatic double-height spaces, private dining facilities for entertaining, and a rooftop outdoor bar with sweeping 360° views of the skyline and river, floating 310 meters (more than 1,000 feet) above the city.

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Anonymous wrote:

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hope that fugly thai building crashes and kills all the thai beearches

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