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MahaNakhon
Height: To Tip
314.2 m / 1,031 ft
Height:
Architectural
314.2 m / 1,031 ft
Height: Occupied
299 m / 981 ft Floors Above Ground
75
Floors Below Ground
1
# of Elevators
22
Top Elevator Speed
8 m/s
Tower GFA
121,782 m² / 1,310,851 ft²
Development GFA
131,017 m² / 1,410,255 ft²
# of Apartments
209
# of Hotel Rooms
154
# of Parking Spaces
899
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Facts Companies Involved

Official Name MahaNakhon Developer PACE Development Corporation Plc.
Other Names The Ritz Carlton Residences & Edition Hotel Architect
Structure Type Building • Design Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Status Completed Structural Engineer
Country Thailand • Design Bouygues Thai Ltd
City Bangkok • Peer Review Aurecon; CivilPark International; Robert Bird
Street Address & Map 114 Narathiw at Road, Silom Group
Postal Code 10500 MEP Engineer
Building Function residential / hotel • Design P & T Group
Structural Material concrete • Peer Review Aurecon
Proposed 2009 Project Manager Turner International LLC
Construction Start 2011 Main Contractor Bouygues Thai Ltd
Completion 2016 Other Consultant
Official W ebsite MahaNakhon • Façade Facade Associates
• Geotechnical CivilPark International
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• Interiors David Collins Studio; Ian Schrager Company;
Global Ranking #100 Tallest in the W orld
Kengo Kuma and Associates
Regional Ranking #59 Tallest in Asia • Landscape Landscape Architects 49, Limited
National Ranking #1 Tallest in Thailand • W ind Aurecon; CivilPark International
Material Supplier
City Ranking #1 Tallest in Bangkok
• Sealants Sika Services AG

About MahaNakhon
MahaNakhon is a mixed-use development providing residences, retail, hotel and an observatory in the heart of Bangkok. Located in the Silom
business district, directly adjacent to the Bangkok Skytrain public transport system (BTS) and Bus Rapid Transport System (BRT),
MahaNakhon is Thailand’s tallest building.

The inner city site is irregularly shaped, resulting in a three building program, the main 314m tower, a smaller retail building at the front of
the site and an automated parking tower positioned towards the back. The form of the tower has a distinctive sculptural appearance which
takes advantage of the tropical climate and views. The three dimensional ribbon of architectural pixels cut away the façade of the tower to
reveal the inner core, creating unique one of a kind residences as well as special features such as oversized terraces and skyboxes,
protruding out from the main building.

The main structure and life core is wrapped by a series of mega columns, connected at several transfer floors, and the pixelation means 30%
of the tower’s floor plates are in cantilever. The building uses 129 piles drilled to a depth of 65 meters capped with a massive 8.75 meter
thick mat foundation, to compensate for Bangkok’s soft soils. Construction began in 2011, requiring a design-build approach with
construction staged in a manner to allow for a steady delivery of material deliveries working around Bangkok’s high levels of traffic
congestion. Seismic design used CTBUH recommendations and the unconventional form has been tested with 36 directions of wind load
during wind tunnel testing. The tower was officially completed in 2016.

MahaNakhon means ‘Great Metropolis’ in Thai language, and integrates with the city through its organic form by dissolving the mass as it
moves between sky and ground, flowing into the large outdoor retail spaces into a public landscaped square at the tower’s base. The
development brings in several international brands including leading restaurants and dining adjacent to the main street, The Bangkok Edition
Hotel in the lower section of the main tower, with Ritz-Carlton branded freehold luxury residences in the upper section of the tower. At the
top of the tower, a multi storey observatory and bar tourist destination showcases the views of Bangkok.

MahaNakhon
CT BUH Initiatives Global News
2018 Tall Building Predictions Thailand’s New Tallest Celebrates With Light Shows in Bangkok
17 Jan 2018 – CTBUH News 29 Aug 2016 – Thailand’s tallest skyscraper, finished earlier in…
CTBUH Releases Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2016 MahaNakhon, Thailand’s Tallest Building, Completes
10 Jan 2017 – CTBUH News Report 4 May 2016 – MahaNakhon has officially completed following the…
Seismic Issues Workshop, Shanghai 2014 Pace Development Tops Off Core of MahaNakhon in Bangkok
16 Sep 2014 – Event Report 30 Apr 2015 – Pace Development Corporation has announced the…
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Videos
Bangkok and the MahaNakhon Tower
Oct 2016 – Kipsan Beck, PACE Development
MahaNakhon Observatory: Developing a Tourism Destination
for Thailand's Tallest Building
17 Oct 2016 – Kipsan Beck, PACE Development
Other Asia Case Studies Q&A
17 Oct 2016 – Kipsan Beck, PACE; Karl Fender, Fender Katsalidis
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Research Papers Other Building Facts

Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2016 During the design of this building, its designer and partner-in-charge
10 Jan 2017 – CTBUH Journal, 2017 Issue I at Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Ole Scheeren, left
and founded his own firm, Buro Ole Scheeren. OMA and Ole Scheeren
Bangkok and the MahaNakhon Tower share the design credit for this project.
17 Oct 2016 – Cities to Megacities: Shaping Dense Vertical Urbanism
Cities to Megacities: Perspectives
Oct 2016 – CTBUH Journal, 2016 Issue IV
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