Architecture and built heritage

Architecture and built heritage

Fortification & defensive work

Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)

Phra Sumen Fort

Built in 1783 in the north of Rama I’s capital, dismantled and later raised again on its original foundations, Phra Sumen Fort is one of only two surviving witnesses to Bangkok’s fortified city wall.

Architecture and built heritage

Palace & royal residence

Bangkok (Dusit)

Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall

Commissioned by Chulalongkorn, built by Italians and completed under his son, the throne hall of Dusit Palace witnessed the birth of Siam’s constitutional regime before housing Parliament, and later a museum.

Architecture and built heritage

Palace & royal residence

Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)

The Grand Palace of Bangkok

The Grand Palace of Bangkok, founded in 1782 on the banks of the Chao Phraya, was the seat of Siamese power for a century and a half; it remains the setting for the great rites of the monarchy.

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.

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.

Architecture and built heritage

Palace & royal residence

Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)

Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall

Commissioned by King Chulalongkorn for the centenary of Bangkok, the throne hall that pairs a European façade with three Siamese spires remains, at the heart of the Grand Palace, a place of royal relics and state receptions.

Architecture and built heritage

Palace & royal residence

Bangkok (Phra Nakhon)

Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall

Built in the late eighteenth century on the site of Bangkok’s first throne hall, the Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall has passed from a place of audience to the place where the kings and queens of the Chakri dynasty lie before their cremation.