Ocean Two
skyscraper in Panama City
Ocean Two (sometimes called O2) is a residential skyscraper in the Costa del Este district of Panama City, Panama. Construction of the 73-story, 245.7 m (806 ft) building began in 2006 and was completed in 2010. At the time of its completion, it became the tallest building in Panama and Latin America. It was then surpassed by The Point in 2011.
Construction was led by architects Pinzón Lozano & Asociados. The facade matches the smaller building Ocean One, standing 207 m (679 ft).
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This entry incorporates text from “Ocean Two” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.