MahaNakhon by OMA
German architect Ole Scheeren of Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed a skyscraper for Bangkok in Thailand. Called MahaNakhon, the building consists of a 77-storey glass tower. A band of...
View ArticleFurniture from Buildings by Architectkidd and Osisu
Thai architects Architectkidd and product designers Osisu have collaborated on a project where spare bits of cladding have been made into furniture. Called Furniture from Buildings, the building...
View ArticleShophouses 4 x 8 m Bangkok by Peter Nitsch
German photographer Peter Nitsch has sent us a selection of his latest series of photos, documenting combined businesses and homes in Bangkok, Thailand. Called Shophouses – 4 x 8 m Bangkok, the series...
View ArticleShophouse Transformation by all(zone)
Bangkok studio all(zone) added a patterned concrete facade to two disused Bangkok shophouses to create a live-work unit on each floor. The architects have transformed the 5-storey buildings by adding...
View ArticleVertical Living Gallery by Sansiri and Shma
The chequered facade of this Bangkok showroom by architects Sansiri and landscape architects Shma is half glass and half living plants. The bushy native plants sprout from hollow trapezium-shaped...
View ArticleDude Cigar Bar by Studiomake
Twisted bricks create openings in the walls of a speakeasy-style bar in Bangkok, allowing passers-by a sneaky glimpse inside. Thai architects Studiomake designed the bar, where cigars for sale are...
View ArticleKlong Toey Community Lantern by TYIN Tegnestue
Architects TYIN Tegnestue of Norway have taken an empty slot in a dense residential area of Bangkok and worked with the local community to build a climbing frame and basketball court. A year of...
View ArticleShelter of Nostalgia by Worapong Manupipatpong
These tree house-like cabins by Thai designer Worapong Manupipatpong are built up around the column of a building rather than over the branches of a tree. The three wooden playhouses overlap one...
View ArticleBangkok Flat by Architectkidd
Thai architects Architectkidd built an outdoor shower room behind wooden screens on the balcony of this renovated apartment in Bangkok (+ slideshow). The perforated screens around the shower were made...
View ArticleSalon in Bangkok by NKDW
Thousands of bamboo rods hang from the ceiling like stalactites to divide the space inside this Bangkok hair salon by Thai designer Nattapon Klinsuwan of NKDW. Klinsuwan was inspired by the way natural...
View ArticleFai Fah by Spark
Architects Spark have added a stairwell resembling a giant wedge of Swiss cheese onto two Bangkok shophouses they've converted into a youth centre. Commissioned by Thai bank TMB, the Fai Fah centre...
View ArticleThe Pool at Pyne by T.R.O.P.
Aerial photographs reveal the angular geometries of this rooftop swimming pool in Bangkok by Thai landscape architects T.R.O.P. (+ slideshow) The swimming pool is positioned over the podium of a...
View ArticleS3H House by all(zone)
Bangkok architects all(zone) rearranged the forms found in typical standardised housing to create this family home in the Thai capital (+ slideshow). The house is located in a middle class suburb of...
View ArticleCiguë designs woven bamboo screens for Isabel Marant's Bangkok store
Handcrafted woven bamboo screens are suspended in sections to cover the ceiling and walls of this Isabel Marant boutique in Bangkok by Parisian studio Ciguë. Ciguë created 236 screens in different...
View ArticleBrick grates set into the walls of a Bangkok house hide a series of outdoor...
Sections of perforated brickwork set into the walls of this Bangkok residence by local architect Jun Sekino allow light to filter into terraces while screening residents from the street (+ slideshow)....
View ArticleJun Sekino's Tinman house in Bangkok features a steel structure and colourful...
Prompted by the client's love of the Tin Man character in the Wizard of Oz, architect Jun Sekino left the steel framework of this Bangkok house exposed inside and out (+ slideshow). Set in the centre...
View ArticleOnion uses solid ash and plywood to create a monochrome restaurant interior...
Furniture and surfaces at this restaurant in Bangkok's EmQuartier shopping precinct are almost exclusively ash, creating a monochrome interior that looks like it's made from balsa wood (+ slideshow)....
View ArticleMicro dwelling by All(zone) could be erected within abandoned towers
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Bangkok studio All(zone) has conceived a small temporary home intended to be set up inside unfinished high-rise buildings in tropical cities (+ movie). The project,...
View ArticleHypothesis uses plants and discarded objects to create Vivarium restaurant...
Inside Festival 2015: Yarinda Bunnag of Hypothesis explains how the Thai design agency reused elements including scaffolding and tree roots to transform an abandoned warehouse into a Bangkok restaurant...
View ArticleOle Scheeren's "carved" MahaNakhon skyscraper scheduled to complete this year
The pixelated 314-metre-high skyscraper designed by former OMA architect Ole Scheeren is nearing completion in Bangkok. A series of photographs snapped by Instagram users reveal the modular cutaways of...
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