King Power Mahanakhon
A glass tower with a spiral of missing cubes carved into its side — Bangkok's skyline has a deliberate wound in it.
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German architect Ole Scheeren (ex-OMA) designed the cuboid-surfaced helix that gives this 77-floor, 314.2-metre tower its fractured look. It held Thailand's tallest-building title from May 2016 until 2018, and the $620 million project contains a hotel, retail, and residences priced up to $17 million USD.
What to look for
- The cuboid helix — a spiral of protruding and recessed blocks cut into the glass curtain wall, visible from street level
- The separate CUBE building on the same plot, finished in October 2013 before the main tower topped out
- The King Power branding that replaced the original MahaNakhon name after the April 2018 ownership change
Located in the Silom/Sathon central business district; hotel lobby and retail are at street level in the CBD.
King Power Mahanakhon is one of 38 sights worth the detour in Bangkok, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Bangkok pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Bangkok
- Grand PalaceIn 1782 a king moved his entire capital from Thonburi to Bangkok and built this walled city — Thailand's seat of power for the next 143 years.
- Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha)Every Thai king since 1783 has personally added to this temple — and the reigning king still presides over state ceremonies here today.
- Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn)Named for Aruna — the Hindu charioteer who drives the sun at dawn — this riverside spire was built to face the light it honors.
- Baiyoke Tower IIBangkok's tallest hotel stacks an observatory, a bar, and a revolving roof deck across three floors at 309 metres.
- BTS SkytrainBangkok sits in chronic gridlock — three elevated lines run above it on 70 kilometers of track connecting the city end to end.
- Rajamangala National StadiumThailand's largest stadium swells like a concrete wave — narrow at each end, rising steeply until the stands crest exactly at the halfway line.