State Tower is a skyscraper located on Silom Road, Bang Rak business district, Bangkok , Thailand , adjacent to Charoen Krung Road . Built in 2001, it has a floor area of 300,000 m (3,200,000 sq ft). State Tower has 68 floors and is 247 m (810 ft) tall, making it the 8th tallest building in Thailand. It is also the tallest mixed-use building in Thailand.
4-430: Conceived by Thai architect Professor Rangsan Torsuwan in the early 1990s and designed by Rangsan Architecture, the massive building is characterised by its thirty-meter tall golden rooftop dome and neo-classical balconies. It was originally named "Silom Precious Tower", later "Royal Charoen Krung Tower" (RCK Tower) and then "State Tower". State Tower contains condominiums, serviced apartments, offices and retail units. It
8-506: Is also home to two five-star hotels, lebua at State Tower and Tower Club at lebua . Sirocco , an open-air restaurant with a panoramic view of Bangkok, is located on the 63rd floor. There are two Michelin starred restaurants on the top floors of the tower, owned and managed by lebua Hotels and Resorts. State Tower is owned by Challenge Group. In 2015, Nusasiri PLC bought non-performing condominium units from Bangkok Commercial Asset Management Co and renovated for resell. The total units bought
12-713: The 1980s to early 1990s. Rangsan graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University and attained a Master's at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , returning to Thailand in 1967. He initially worked under his former professor Krisda Arunvongse , before setting up his own firm. He also taught as an assistant professor at Chulalongkorn, until 1992. Rangsan's style has been described as "exultant post-modernism, architectural pastiche in which styles and eras are thrown together without any signs of restraint". Among his best known works are
16-423: Was 166 spanning floors 28-32 and 42-50. This article related to the city of Bangkok , Thailand is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Thai building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rangsan Torsuwan Rangsan Torsuwan (born 1939) is a Thai architect, known for many buildings during Bangkok's period of explosive growth from
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