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Bangkok (Bang Rak district)
Bang Rak lies on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River, south of the Chinese quarter of Samphanthawong, and is crossed by Charoen Krung Road. Built under King Mongkut and completed in 1864 as Bangkok’s first paved road, it drew European merchants, foreign legations, Christian missions and trading houses to the riverside during the nineteenth century. The Embassy of France, set beside the water, recalls this period, as does the Central Post Office, completed in 1940. Today Bang Rak brings together Chinese, Muslim and Christian communities alongside creative spaces: TCDC Bangkok occupies part of the former postal building, while Warehouse 30 and the street art of Charoen Krung 32 give new life to old warehouses and lanes.
Entries in Bang Rak (6)
Architecture and built heritage
Civic & institutional building
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Central Post Office
In Bang Rak, Bangkok’s former main post office, built in the late 1930s in the modern idiom favoured by the People’s Party, still houses a postal counter and is now home to a centre devoted to design.
Arts, aesthetics and creation
Public art & street art
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Charoen Krung 32 Street Art
In a side street in Bang Rak, the murals painted during the 2013 and 2016 Bukruk festival have stayed on the walls, making Soi Charoen Krung 32 one of the landmarks of street art in Bangkok.
Architecture and built heritage
Civic & institutional building
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Embassy of France
On the banks of the Chao Phraya, in Bang Rak, a former customs house that became a consulate, then a legation and finally an embassy tells the story of more than a century and a half of relations between France and Siam.
Arts, aesthetics and creation
Public art & street art
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Scratching the Surface by Vhils
In Bangkok, Vhils carved faces and gazes into the wall of the Embassy of Portugal, paying tribute to the ties between the two countries and bringing the history of the site to the surface.
Arts, aesthetics and creation
Cultural & creative centre
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
TCDC Bangkok (Thailand Creative & Design Center)
Born of a public policy in support of creativity, Thailand’s design centre found its home in 2017 in the Bang Rak Central Post Office, built under the People’s Party to give the State a modern image.
Heritage in transition
Rehabilitation & adaptive reuse
Bangkok (Bang Rak)
Warehouse 30
In Bang Rak, former warehouses attributed to the era of the Second World War became, in 2017, a cultural and commercial complex, cited as an example of conversion without demolition in Bangkok.