Thailand's tallest tower gets go-ahead
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Bangkok - Thailand's tallest building, a residential condominium planned at Pattaya, a beach resort, has received the go-ahead to start construction next month after months of delay, media reports said Wednesday. Construction of the Ocean 1 Tower planned at Jomtien, a part of Pattaya, is to start March 30 after the project received approval of its environmental impact assessment, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported. The beach-front residential condominium, is to be 91 storeys and 327 metres high, making it taller than Thailand's current tallest building, Bangkok's Baiyoke Tower II, which stands at 304 metres. Pattaya, a popular beach resort best known for its wild nightlife, has been experiencing a real estate boom for the past four years, which has raised concerns about looming water shortages and wastewater problems, forcing new projects such as the Ocean I to submit environmental impact assessments before getting approval. Because of delays caused by that approval process, Siam Best Enterprise Co, the owner of Ocean 1 Tower, has raised its prices seven times on condominium units, which start at 125,000 baht (3,834 dollars) per square metre.
Copyright DPA
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Thailand's tallest tower
By:
Robert Brett ,
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:36:06 GMT
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Pattaya needs this super-tower like a hole in the head. The impending catastrophe will be pollution and traffic gridlock - Pattaya's narrow jammed up roads cannot take the strain of thousands more vehicles. Already, during holidays and weekends, it can take 2 hours to drive just 1 mile from Pattaya to Jomtien! What the city needs is a major 4 or 6 lane road right through south Pattaya to Jomtien; without it, the city is doomed to gridlock hell, with pollution being worse than it is now.
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