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Tornado Tower | |
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Height | 200m |
Floors | 51 |
Year | 2008 |
City | Doha |
The Tornado Tower, also known as the QIPCO Tower, is a high tech office skyscraper in the city of Doha, Qatar. The building stands at a height of 640 feet (195 m) tall with 52 floors. Construction began in 2006 and has been completed in 2008. It's located on a 199,000 square foot plot of land, but only occupies 32,300 square feet of it, leaving plenty of open space around it to improve its aesthetic. The circular footprint of the building, using a 97-foot diameter at its base, includes a ground level restaurant and a bank, among other amenities. Sixteen elevators serve the approximate 904,000 square feet of office space the building contains.
Baiyoke Tower II | |
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Height | 328m |
Floors | 85 |
Year | 1997 |
City | Bangkok |
Baiyoke Tower II (Thai: ????? 2; RTGS: Bai Yok Song) is an 88-storey, 309 m (1,014 feet ) skyscraper hotel at 222 Ratchaprarop Road at the Ratchathewi District of Bangkok, Thailand. It's the third tallest building in the city, after MahaNakhon and Magnolias Waterfront Residences in ICONSIAM. The construction comprises the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in Southeast Asia and the seventh-tallest all-hotel structure in the world.With the antenna included, the building's height is 328.4 m (1,077 feet ), and features a public observatory on the 77th floor, a bar calledRoof Top Bar & Music Lounge on the 83rd floor, a 360-degree revolving roof deck on the 84th floor and the hotel provides 673 guest rooms. Construction on the building ended in 1997, with the antenna being added two decades later. The Baiyoke Sky Hotel website notes the height without the antenna as 309 m (1,014 feet ), but the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Emporis and SkyscraperPage note it as 304 m (997 ft).
Source: Wikipedia