Luxury Residential Porsche Design Tower Planned in Bangkok

In collaboration with Ahanda Development, the design subsidiary of Porsche AG — which itself is a subsidiary of Germany’s Volkswagen Group — plans the 21-story, 95-m-tall Porsche Design Tower in Bangkok, Thailand, New Atlas reports. Plans are in line with a wave of luxury automobile-inspired towers with Aston Martin, Bentley and Bugatti among automakers getting in on the architecture game. While Miami’s Porsche Design tower has a car elevator, the one in Bangkok calls for a spiral car ramp, which the source says “is a much more practical way of doing things.” Although not as tall as other luxury auto-branded towers, Bangkok’s Porsche Design Tower is set to feature a pedestal structure at the base modeled after Porsche’s Mission R concept car, a crown with lighting that resembles the sportscar’s lights and a façade inspired by the roof mechanism on the Porsch 911 Targa. The tower is set to include 22 residences.