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The building comprises the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in Southeast Asia and the seventh-tallest hotel in the world. [ 5 ] With the antenna included, the building's height is 328.4 m (1,077 ft), and features a public observatory on the 77th floor, a bar called "Roof Top Bar & Music Lounge" on the 83rd floor, a 360-degree revolving roof ...
Sky Lounge (Asukayama Tower), Tokyo (demolished in 1993) Yushima Plaza Hotel, Tokyo (demolished in 2007) Rushington Palace, Shinjuku, Tokyo (demolished in 2006) THE Sky, Hotel New Otani, Tokyo (restaurant open, but not currently rotating) [7] Ginza Sky Lounge in Yūrakuchō, Tokyo (it used to rotate counterclockwise, but now it doesn't rotate ...
Suvarnabhumi International Airport (IATA: BKK, ICAO: VTBS) [4] [5] is the main international airport serving Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. [6] [7] Located mostly in Racha Thewa subdistrict, Bang Phli district, Samut Prakan province, it covers an area of 3,240 ha (32.4 km 2; 8,000 acres), making it one of the biggest international airports in Southeast Asia and a regional hub for aviation.
Sky Bar is the world's highest open-air bar. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It is on the 64th floor (820 foot elevation) of the State Tower located on Silom Road, Bang Rak business district, Bangkok , Thailand, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the second tallest building in Thailand.
27 April 1980 – Thai Airways Flight 231, a BAe 748 (registered HS-THB) which was en route from Khon Kaen to Bangkok, lost altitude during a thunderstorm and crashed about 13 kilometres from Bangkok International Airport. All four crew members and 40 of the 49 passengers were killed.
Bangkok is ranked 13th in the world in terms of the total number of skyscrapers. Bangkok experienced a building boom in the late 1980s and early 1990s when Thailand experienced rapid economic growth. However, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis left a visible scar on the city’s skyline with many unfinished or abandoned buildings.
The airport contains 2 5-storey car park buildings with a combined capacity of 5,000 cars. Two videos were released in which car park contractor Latthapol Kesakotin, in one video, claimed that he paid US$250 million to Yaowaret Shinawatra (the Prime Minister's sister) to gain a contract to build and operate the airport car park, and another video in which he claimed he didn't pay anything to ...
The first bar opened in Soi Cowboy in the early 1970s, but it was not until 1977 that a second bar opened on the street [2] by T. G. "Cowboy" Edwards, a retired American airman. Edwards got his nickname because he often wore a cowboy hat and the soi was given its name in reference to him by longtime nightlife columnist Bernard Trink .