13 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Bangkok
13 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Asiatique The Riverfront
2194 Charoen Krung Road, Wat Phraya Krai, Bang Kho Laem, Bangkok
Asiatique occupies the former warehouses of the East Asiatic Company, a Danish trading firm that was one of the most powerful businesses in Southeast Asia for over a century.
Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)
98 Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
If the Grand Palace is the soul of old Bangkok, the BACC is the brain of the new city.
Democracy Monument
Ratchadamnoen Klang Road, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
The Democracy Monument sits in the middle of a traffic roundabout on Ratchadamnoen Avenue, which is either a metaphor for how democracy works in Thailand or just bad urban planning.
Grand Palace
Na Phra Lan Road, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
The Grand Palace isn't just a building — it's an entire walled city within a city, and for 150 years it was the beating heart of the Thai kingdom.
ICONSIAM
299 Charoen Nakhon Road, Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San, Bangkok
ICONSIAM is absurd in the best possible way.
Jim Thompson House
6 Soi Kasemsan 2, Rama 1 Road, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok
Jim Thompson was an American spy who moved to Bangkok after World War II, single-handedly revived the Thai silk industry, built a stunning house out of six dismantled teak homes, filled it with one of Southeast Asia's finest private art collections — and then vanished without a trace in the Malaysian jungle in 1967.
MahaNakhon SkyWalk
114 Narathiwas Road, Silom, Bang Rak, Bangkok
The King Power MahaNakhon was Bangkok's tallest building when it opened in 2016, and it still has the city's most vertigo-inducing attraction: a glass-floored observation deck on the 78th floor where you stand 314 metres above the street and look straight down through your feet.
Vimanmek Mansion
16 Ratchawithi Road, Dusit, Bangkok
Vimanmek Mansion holds the record for the world's largest building made entirely of golden teak, and it was built without a single nail.
Wat Arun
158 Thanon Wang Doem, Wat Arun, Bangkok Yai, Bangkok
Wat Arun looks like something a giant built out of broken china — and that's basically what happened.
Wat Benchamabophit (Marble Temple)
69 Thanon Si Ayutthaya, Dusit, Bangkok
The Marble Temple is the one Bangkok temple that looks like it was designed by an architect who had just returned from a trip to Italy — because it was.
Wat Ratchanatdaram (Loha Prasat)
2 Maha Chai Road, San Chao Pho Suea, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
Loha Prasat looks like nothing else in Bangkok — or anywhere else in the world.
Wat Saket (Golden Mount)
344 Thanon Chakkraphatdi Phong, Ban Bat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok
The Golden Mount is Bangkok's original skyscraper — a 77-metre artificial hill crowned with a gold chedi that was the tallest point in the city for over a century.
Wat Suthat & the Giant Swing
146 Bamrung Muang Road, Wat Ratchabophit, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok
The Giant Swing is one of those things in Bangkok that makes you stop and say 'wait, what?' A 21-metre-tall red teak frame that looks like a massive goalpost stands in the middle of a traffic circle, and for 150 years it was the centrepiece of a Brahmin ceremony where young men would swing to terrifying heights trying to grab a bag of gold coins hung from a pole with their teeth.
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