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8 lanes?! I wonder if any road in the whole UK has 8 lanes. Certainly not outside of motorways. What the hell are they for? 

1 hour ago, Buffy Frobisher said:

Demolishing such a genuine art deco masterpiece as La Scala is just plain wrong, though I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for the BMA to wake up and realise that they've just lost another treasure.???? Whatever happened to preserving heritage sites in Thailand? With a few baht worth of renovation and restoration it could have become quite a tourist destination.

 

Chulalongkorn University being behind it, AND building yet another shopping mall that Bangkok doesn't need and probably doesn't want anyway, is clearly another in their long list of crimes against intelligence and wisdom in favour of the almighty Baht! 

This is not an "art deco masterpiece" but a bit of Thai 1970s kitsch architecture, and quite ugly too. It'll be a shame to lose such an auditorium in the heart of downtown Bangkok, which could be repurposed for live performances, but architecturally the place is garbage.

Reports keep calling this building "Art Deco" when it is nothing of the sort! This is a bit of Thai 1970s kitsch architecture, and quite ugly too. It'll be a shame to lose such an auditorium in the heart of downtown Bangkok, which could be repurposed for live performances, but architecturally the place is garbage.

Ah, an intelligent canal bus at last,one that you don't have to be a gymnast to board and get off.

A drop in the ocean. One major land owner could help a lot if he wished to green Bangkok.

That was clever. Bet he can't do it again.

Shocking! Could this be the other building? https://www.tourismthailand.org/Attraction/the-teak-museum

I've just been researching the old teak houses in Phrae for my work, and this news is almost unbelievable, given the extensive restoration efforts in Phrae made in recent decades.

I say "almost" because you can never count out the stupidity of people with regard to heritage and conservation in Thailand.

50 years too late. Pathetic state organisation. But better late than never....

4 hours ago, ukrules said:

Does anyone know when walking street become a walking street full of bars?

 

I first came to Thailand in July 1995 and the whole country was nothing like it is now.

 

In Bangkok I went to cowboy which was a sleepy backwater compared to what it is now

 

I then went down to Pattaya for a few days and don't remember going to a walking street full of gogo bars but there was a short period of national mourning at that point and many places were closed.

 

In the 1970s, actually, and traffic still went through.

Made of copper? And then painted gold? Very unlikely.

Shame!

It's not a beauty spot! It's a spot from which you can have a good view, or a bad view, according to taste.

Except Dusit Zoo, which has been taken away from us.

How about more trains and longer trains? You can afford it and we need them.

2 hours ago, Oldie said:

Why not? What is the difference?

The corporate expats buy the same stuff they would in a European/American/Australian etc supermarket, i.e. expensive imports. We residents don't. Got it now?

Surely "hia" is only a swear word when applied to humans, like calling somebody a rat in English. Otherwise, it's the normal word for the animal.