© Wilson Tungthunya
Architects: Whitespace
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Founder And Principal: David Meyer
Owner J&B
Project area: 3,000 sqm
Project year: 2007 – 2009
Photographs: Wilson Tungthunya
© Pirak Anurakyawachon
Architects: Hassell
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Client: dtac
Project area: 62,000 sqm
Project year: 2009
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© Wison Tungthunya
Architects: OFFICE AT Co., Ltd.
Location: Bangkok University Kluaynamtai Campus, Bangkok, Thailand
Project area: 1,612 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Wison Tungthunya
© AL_A
Amanda Levete Architects, AL_A, has just shared the news that their Central Embassy building is set to start on site this February. Situated along Ploenchit Road, Bangkok’s primary commercial artery, the 1.5 million sq ft project merges a 7 storey luxury retail podium and a 30 storey 5 star hotel tower into a twisting shape. The form marks a grand gesture for the city, as the curved mass climbs high into the sky creating an identifying mark for the area. The interiors are flooded with natural light as the form wraps around two vertical light wells, revealing stepped terraces and vertical gardens.
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© Wison Tungthunya
Architects: OFFICE AT Co., Ltd.
Location: Bangkok University Kluaynamtai Campus, Bangkok, Thailand
Project area: 3,641 sqm
Project year: 2006
Photographs: Wison Tungthunya
© Wison Tungthunya
Architects: Supermachine Studio
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Nuntawat Tasanasangsoon, Wattikon Kosonkit, Santi Sarasuphab
Landscape Architect: Sanitas Studio
Interior Design: Design plus Style Co.,Ltd.
Client: Sansiri
Project Area: 720 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Wison Tungthunya
© Wison Tungthunya
Architect: Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Owner: ZEN Department Store Co., Ltd.
Project team: Amata Luphaiboon, Twitee Vajrabhaya, Prow Puttorngul, Chanon Petchsangngam, Sasicholwaree Sawatdisawanee, Wipavee Kueasirikul
Landscape Architect: TROP Co., Ltd.
Lighting Designer: ACCENT Studio
Contractor: Great Furnic Co.,Ltd.
Project Area: 2,000 sqm + 1,000 sqm exterior
Project year: 2008
Photographer: Wison Tungthunya
© OMA/Ole Scheeren 2009
Ole Scheeren, a partner for Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and project leader of the recently completed Beijing’s CCTV Tower, considered among the world’s most imaginative contemporary architectural feats. With the tower complete, Scheeren has moved to design his first skyscraper, entitled MahaNakhon, “a dazzling, pixelated 77-storey tower,” that will rise to be the tallest building in Bangkok. With approximately 150,000 square meters, MahaNakhon will include a lush urban oasis with public gardens and a major transportation hub, luxury retail, residences, a new public square, and a five-star hotel created by New York’s Ian Schrager.
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With more than 300,000 sqm dedicated to almost every possible brand name, the CentralPlaza is the biggest shopping mall located in Bangkok, Thailand on Chaengwattana Road. Manuelle Gautrand‘s office took over the project with studies already well advanced by another firm because the client was looking to improve the overall design. Gautrand adopted a pragmatic approach that consisted of modifying contours and overhauling façades. The firm “concentrated on asserting a graphic presence strong enough to change the way volumes are perceived, innervating and expanding them to increase their legibility.” In an interview with Florence Accorsi about shops and leisure facilities, Gautrand explained, “We live in a consumer society, so business is all important. At the same time, retail outlets have become rendezvous places where people go to do more than just shop. They are there for an outing, to have fun, relax, meet other people… This gives us an opportunity to re-think these places and renew their identity codes, to redesign their architecture and space so as to introduce variety and unusual things in their programming.”
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Amanda Levete Architects is to develop a major retail and hotel complex in central Bangkok, Thailand. Central Embassy, located on Bangkok’s primary commercial artery Ploen Chit Road, will be a new architectural landmark for the city and region.
The 145,000 m2 project will occupy the former gardens of the British Embassy in Nai Lert Park, and will consist of a 7-storey retail podium and a 30-storey 6-star hotel tower. Work on site is scheduled to begin in 2010 and to complete in 2013.
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