The City Actually Wants to Turn BACC Into a ‘Coworking Space’

[rooster59]

The City Actually Wants to Turn BACC Into a ‘Coworking Space’

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Exterior of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre at Pathumwan intersection in downtown Bangkok. Image: Bacc.or.th

 

BANGKOK — The director of the city’s largest downtown cultural center said that the city’s desire to take it over and turn it into a co-working space is ill-considered.

 

A day after Bangkok Gov. Gov. Aswin Kwanmuang said he wanted to take control of the Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, or BACC, and turn it into a co-working space, the facility’s director said the 10-year-old art center’s future was in jeopardy.

 

“The BACC is the pride of Bangkokians and Thais. So it’s strange why this issue is coming up for the BACC which has been running so smooth as of late.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/bangkok/2018/05/12/the-city-actually-wants-to-turn-bacc-into-a-coworking-space/

 

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-05-13

[humbug]

bangkok gov. aswipe who is unelected making decisions to line his own pockets and turn an arts center into another shopping complex. Well done to all those baffoons celebrating Suthep and the dinosaurs in Bangkok shutdown 4 years ago this is what you get.

[yellowboat]

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“The BACC is the pride of Bangkokians and Thais. So it’s strange why this issue is coming up for the BACC which has been running so smooth as of late.

 

It is Thai that is why the BACC and the junta do not like it.  It looks like they are trying to turn Bangkok into a less than clean, less than well run Singapore.  They want to increase prices of EVERYTHING and forget everything charming about Thailand.  There are already co-working spaces in Bangkok, but some of them are more expensive than downtown Hong Kong.  In short, it is a stupid idea.  It ranks up there with building luxury housing for judges in an a nature preserve. 

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Not a bad idea. I haven't seen anything more cultural at that place than the exhibitions they throw at Siam Paragon.