Tower · Ratchathewi & Phaya Thai
Baiyoke Tower II
ใบหยก 2
An 88-storey hotel growing straight out of a garment market.
Jing ler? — no way
For 19 years (1997–2016) this was Thailand's tallest building — not a bank or corporate HQ, but a hotel above the Pratunam clothes stalls, built by a textile family. Its rotating rooftop deck still gives the city's best 360° for the price of a drink.
Jing ler? — no way
Explore it in the 3D city →It topped out in 1997, the very year the Asian financial crisis began in Bangkok — making it both the crown of the boom and its tombstone.