Bangkok (Bang Kho Laem district)

Bang Kho Laem lies on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya, within a bend of the river, crossed by Charoen Krung Road and, further east, Rama III Road, south of the Sathon and Bang Rak districts. Once Charoen Krung opened in the 1860s, this stretch of riverbank filled with warehouses, wharves, sawmills and the premises of foreign trading houses, among them the Danish East Asiatic Company. Long administered as part of Yan Nawa, the area became a district in its own right in 1989. Today, modern buildings stand alongside riverside communities and temples, while Asiatique The Riverfront occupies former East Asiatic Company docks and sheds whose architecture recalls the district’s port history.

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Heritage in transition
Rehabilitation & adaptive reuse
Bangkok (Bang Kho Laem)
Asiatique The Riverfront
On the bank of the Chao Phraya in Bangkok, former warehouses of the East Asiatic Company, built on the grounds of a vanished monastery, have become a leisure complex that turns their history into a selling point.

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