Central World Hotel
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Central World Hotel is a skyscraper under construction located in Pathum Wan district, Bangkok, Thailand.
This new hotel tower is integrated into a multipurpose podium (Central World). In addition to the hotel public floors, this large volume houses parking floors and extensive convention facilities. This state-of-art convention center features 20,000 square meter convention hall and numerous function rooms. These facilities, easily accessed from the street via a dedicated bank of elevators, are situated in close proximity to the hotel ballroom and meeting rooms allowing the two facilities to be used concurrently. The iconic hotel tower soars high above the podium to take its place as a landmark building in the Bangkok skyline. The mass of the podium is a succession of concentric circles layered around the tower shaft. The glass and metal cylinder rises directly from the street to a height of approximately 189 meters. Its architectural expression consists of an arrangement of horizontal banding overlaid onto a strong vertical framework. Dynamism and the play of transparency versus solidity are the hallmarks of the overall design. These elements combine to create a building whose lightness belies its large size of 57 floors. The building will be 235m high (771 ft) and will be finished by the end of 2007.
