Bangkok: Luxury condo is not cracked and leaning says Sathorn district chief

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Bangkok: Luxury condo is not cracked and leaning says Sathorn district chief

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The district chief in Bangkok's Sathorn district was forced to declare that a luxury 72 story condo under development in her area was not cracked and leaning. 

 

Chuleeporn Wongphiphat was responding to comments made online after a small fire broke out in the basement of the Chao Phraya Estate development behind Wat Sutthiram School. 

 

Chuleeporn said her engineers had determined there was no structural damage. The fire - in some cardboard boxes - was limited to a two meter square area and was soon put out by an extinguisher. 

 

Workers completing decoration work ahead of the building's opening were evacuated as a precaution and this might have led to the rumors, she said. 

 

She told people online to stop spreading false information about the development that was creating unnecessary alarm. 

 

The luxury condo will have 366 units, reported Daily News. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

 

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[petermik]

Untrue or not going to be difficult now to shift all these apartments.......????

[RotBenz8888]

Leaning tower of Bangkok

[unamazedloso]

Thais don't care about cracks. Take a look around.... mai bpen rai....

[Lucius verus]

Built next to a Buddha compound which could raise doubts about the legality of any title deed.

Buyer beware.

[worgeordie]

Looks to have a small footprint,compared to its height,  

if that makes any difference ?

regards Worgeordie

[Katipo]

The tall and skinny design of that thing.... anyone fancy a game of Jenga? 

[Dumbastheycome]

I get the heebyjeebies in any of these high buildings. A quake in the far north makes them sway! 

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

I get the heebyjeebies in any of these high buildings. A quake in the far north makes them sway! 

 

They're supposed to sway... Ridgid buildings would crack, break and collapse... the forces are too strong - instead the buildings are designed to 'roll with it'.

 

Realistically the lateral load on a 40 story building due to wind exceeds that of an earthquake, however, its a lot more complex than that. 

 

This is a reasonable article on such, if interested... 

 

 

Earthquake.pdf

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Looks like a giant toothpick in the wind.....

 

[owl sees all]

 

 

BKK is probably doomed anyway. Global warming, sliding into the sea, storms.

 

I was thinking of buying one, near the top, but I've changed my mind now. I'll invest in some buffaloes instead. 

[Nyezhov]

How much are they?

[Grusa]

31 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

How much are they?

Less than they were yesterday.

[manarak]

7 hours ago, unamazedloso said:

Thais don't care about cracks. Take a look around.... mai bpen rai....

nor should they as far as steel frame buildings are concerned

[metisdead]

An inflammatory post and the replies have been removed. 

 

An off topic post has been removed. 

[LennyW]

19 hours ago, Lucius verus said:

Built next to a Buddha compound which could raise doubts about the legality of any title deed.

Buyer beware.

How so exactly?

[BobbyL]

Extremely thin. I could never live in something like that. 

[Lucius verus]

17 hours ago, Katipo said:

The tall and skinny design of that thing.... anyone fancy a game of Jenga? 

There's already a jenga building in Bangkok.

They can do anything with skyscrapers thesedays. Melbourne has tall buildings even  skinnier and on smaller plots.

I doubt if any of the skycrapers in Bangkok were designed by Thais.

[RotBenz8888]

Dos it fit more than one unit per floor? One studio?

[VocalNeal]

I'd like to buy a Penthouse unit but they are a bit pricey. So i start a rumour about the building's structural fitness following a minuscule fire and get 10 million knocked off the price?

[utalkin2me]

Cracked and leaning, probably two of the most appreciation deflating words she could have used. I wonder if she really used those words, source does not quote. 

[PhilippBKK]

https://www.chaophrayaestate.com/index.html

330,000 THB average per sqm

 

[expat_4_life]

On 5/2/2019 at 3:37 PM, Dumbastheycome said:

I get the heebyjeebies in any of these high buildings. A quake in the far north makes them sway! 

I was sitting at my PC in a Bangkok apartment, 6th Floor, when the Tsunami hit over a decade ago.  I was like <deleted> was that, felt like an earthquake.  Only a few hours later did I actually learn of the devastation in/around Phuket and that I had been correct.

[Dumbastheycome]

1 hour ago, expat_4_life said:

I was sitting at my PC in a Bangkok apartment, 6th Floor, when the Tsunami hit over a decade ago.  I was like <deleted> was that, felt like an earthquake.  Only a few hours later did I actually learn of the devastation in/around Phuket and that I had been correct.

I hate to image  what the feeling would have been say 30+ floors  higher !

[GoodieAfterDark]

Just like this message I got from this girl. She never has time to talk to me. But hey, I got a message. She says that her phone crashed because her phone screen is cracked....I just wonder what is coming next....

[josephbloggs]

On 5/3/2019 at 8:09 AM, Lucius verus said:

 

I doubt if any of the skycrapers in Bangkok were designed by Thais.

Of course they were.

Edited May 4, 2019 by josephbloggs
Typo

[Nyezhov]

1 hour ago, josephbloggs said:

Of course they were.

The MahaNakhon isnt

[monkeycu]

Buy a penthouse today, in 20 years if it doesn't collapse you will have easy access to the street due to subsidence 

[Orton Rd]

The time to worry is when it leans so much the lifts will not go up and down, there was one like that in Hua Hin once.

Edited May 4, 2019 by Orton Rd

[josephbloggs]

2 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

The MahaNakhon isnt

Yep, quite a few others aren't too, I know that.  I was taking issue with the poster who doubted any skyscrapers were designed by Thais when of course so many of them are.