For more than 40 years, the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University has been staging variations on a play inspired by the famed Chinese literary work “Samkok” (“Romance of the Three Kingdoms”).

Thailand’s property firms have also joined the global trend towards “smart and green architecture”. 

The Architect ’19 exposition kicked off yesterday under the concept of “Living Green”, and sponsored by the Association of Siamese Architects under the Royal Patronage (ASA) and the NCC Exhibition Organiser. 

Steel manufacturer SYS has launches its latest two innovations – “SYS Primerbond”, hot rolled structural steel with excellent corrosion protection, and “Solar Carport”, a prefab metal carport with solar power system. Both innovations allow construction to be more convenient, efficient and responsive to the diverse demands.

Japan’s Seibu Railway introduces its new limited express train “Laview”, the exterior and interior of which have been designed by world-renowned architect Kazuyo Sejima to develop a new :never seen before train car”.

FROM THE USE of solar panels and energy-efficient glass to combining design with forestry, sustainable architecture is reaching new heights in Asia, according to a research by real estate agent JLL.

RAMA IV Road in Bangkok will be turned into a hub of green architecture in Bangkok with the planned development of new projects, designed under the environmentally friendly and energy-saving concept, between 2020 and 2025.

It was once decried as an architectural “obscenity”, but as the Louvre’s glass pyramid turns 30 today, it has become a cherished icon of the French capital.

Contemporary clothing brand Cos will join the Salone del Mobile Fair 2019 from April 9 and 14, to launch Conifera, where it will launch large-scale 3D printed architectural installation made from renewable resources by London-based French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani.

Taking its name from the word labyrinth, Hotel Labaris Khao Yai is a new themed hotel with castle-like architecture in the Khao Yai hills.

A newly restored “gingerbread” house delights with its wooden architecture savoured alongside coffee and Thai desserts

Sustainable living and care for the environment will be the guiding principles of this spring’s Architect ’19 exposition

A WHITE chedi in Thai-Lao architectural style and resting on an octagonal platform – signifying the much-revered Luang Phor Koon Parisuttho’s simplicity, humility, purity and graciousness – will soon be built as a memorial atop his temporary crematorium at Buddhamonton Isan in Khon Kaen’s Muang district.

Thai Gypsum Products recently held a series of seminars to inform local architects and home builders about its products.

THOUGH SOME multinational companies still wait and see to enter Myanmar, Hafele Ltd, a German company providing architectural hardware and electronic access control systems with presence in more than 150 countries, remains confident in the market, according to Thasaphong Eurnithilert, director of Hafele (Myanmar) Ltd.