While Saigon may soon be home to Vietnam’s highest building, it looks Bangkok is planning construct the tallest in all of SE Asia with its 615m, 125-story, "Rama IX Super Tower," reports the Bangkok Post.
The massive 18 million baht ($550 million) skyscraper, designed by Architects 49 Ltd, was unveiled on Tuesday by real estate developer Grand Canal Land and is scheduled to be completed by 2019.
Part of the $3.7 billion Grand Rama 9 mixed-use development site, the 320,000sqm "Super Tower" (a naming competition will be held in the future) will include 90,000sqm of office space, a 260-room “six-star” hotel, observation tower and rooftop gardens.
If completed, the building would be the third tallest in the world after the Burj Khalifa and the recently topped out Shanghai Tower.
