Wells Fargo Plaza vs Baiyoke Tower II

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The Wells Fargo Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is a skyscraper located at 1000 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas in the United States.

This building is currently the 20th-tallest Construction in the USA, the second tallest building in Texas and Houston, after Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, and the tallest all-glass construction in the Western Hemisphere. It is the tallest building named for Wells Fargo.From street level, the construction is 302.4 meters (992 ft) tall and contains 71 floors. It extends four stories below street level. Only the Wells Fargo Plaza offers direct access from the road to the Houston tunnel system (a set of underground paths linking many of downtown Houston's office towers); differently, entry points are out of street-level stairs, escalators, and elevators located inside buildings that are connected to the tunnel.



Wells Fargo Plaza features a wide variety of fine amenities for its tenants such as The Houstonian Lite Health Club located on the 14th floor. Sky lobbies on the 34/35th and 58/59th floors are publicly accessible and offer views of Downtown Houston. These sky lobbies are served by double-decker elevators and primarily serve as transport floors to local elevators. The entrance of the skyscraper appears in the final scene of 1989 American thriller film Cohen and Tate (also called'Cohen & Tate')

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Baiyoke Tower II (Thai: ????? 2; RTGS: Bai Yok Song) is an 88-storey, 309 m (1,014 feet ) skyscraper hotel at 222 Ratchaprarop Road at the Ratchathewi District of Bangkok, Thailand. It's the third tallest building in the city, after MahaNakhon and Magnolias Waterfront Residences in ICONSIAM. The construction comprises the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, the tallest hotel in Southeast Asia and the seventh-tallest all-hotel structure in the world.With the antenna included, the building's height is 328.4 m (1,077 feet ), and features a public observatory on the 77th floor, a bar calledRoof Top Bar & Music Lounge on the 83rd floor, a 360-degree revolving roof deck on the 84th floor and the hotel provides 673 guest rooms. Construction on the building ended in 1997, with the antenna being added two decades later. The Baiyoke Sky Hotel website notes the height without the antenna as 309 m (1,014 feet ), but the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Emporis and SkyscraperPage note it as 304 m (997 ft).

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