Baiyoke Tower II
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The Baiyoke Tower II, situated on the Rajprarop Road in the Ratchathewi district of Bangkok, Thailand, is the country's tallest building. It contains the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in south-east Asia and the third-tallest all-hotel structure in the world, with 673 guest rooms.
The building is 309m (1,013 ft) tall, or 328m (1,076 ft) tall if its mast is included. It has 85 floors, with a public observatory on the 77th floor and a 360-degree revolving roof deck on the 84th floor. Construction on the building ended in 1997, with the antenna beind added two years later in 1999.
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Under construction: Abraj Al Bait Towers | Al Hamra Tower | Al Rajhi Tower | Bank of America Tower, New York City | Burj Dubai | City Hall and City Duma | Federation Tower | Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) | International Commerce Centre | New York Times Tower | Rose Rotana Suites | Shanghai World Financial Center | Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) | Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto) | Waterview Tower
Proposed: Al Burj | Buenos Aires Forum | Burj al Alam | Fordham Spire | Mubarak al-Kabir Tower | Plaza Rakyat | Russia Tower | Shard London Bridge
Destroyed: World Trade Center | Construction suspended: Ryugyong Hotel
Visions: 7 South Dearborn | Pyramid City | Sky City 1000 | The Illinois | X-Seed 4000
Observation towers: Borj-e Milad | Central TV Tower | CN Tower | Eiffel Tower | Fernsehturm | KCTV-Tower | Liberation Tower | Macau Tower | Kuala Lumpur Tower | Oriental Pearl Tower | Ostankino Tower | Riga Radio and TV Tower | Sky Tower | Space Needle | Stratosphere Las Vegas | Sydney Tower | Tianjin Radio and Television Tower | Tallinn TV Tower | Tashkent Tower | Tokyo Tower | Tower of the Americas | Torrena |Vilnius TV Tower
Antennas: Alma-Ata Tower | Azeri TV Tower | Emley Moor | Europaturm | Gerbrandy Tower | Kiev TV Tower | Mumbai Television Tower | Saint Petersburg TV Tower | Sumida Tower (proposed) | TV Tower Yerevan | WITI TV Tower | Zendstation Smilde
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Oil platforms: Petronius Platform | Troll Platform | Hibernia Oil Platform
Other proposed structures
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