WORLD FAMOUS BUILDINGS
From The world atlas of Architecture' John Julius Norwich/Portland House,1988,
City View
Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Overview
Bangkok
Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
Rainbow Building
Bangkok
Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
Brick Building
Bangkok
Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
Buddha Statue
near Bangkok
Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
Royal
Palace
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Statues surrounding one of the many towers
with the Prasart Phra
Debidorn on the grounds, columns and roof structure of a building.
Temple
of Emerald Buddha
Grand
Palace, Bangkok
Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Phra Sri
Ratana Chedi ) tower in the Grand Palace. Photo by Byunggu Yu(#2/June 1998).
Statue
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Golden statue of a temple guardian. Photo by Byunggu Yu(#2,3/June 1998).
Stone Statue
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu(#1,2/June 1998).
Gate
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
New Place
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Phra
Mondhob
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Phra Mondhob in front of Prasart Phra
Debidorn. Photo by Byunggu Yu(#4/June 1998).
Cakri-Mahaprasad
Grand Palace, Bangkok
Sits
at the center of the complex, fronted by a garden of sculpted trees. Built as
a royal residence and audience hall in 1890, it was designed by British architects
on an Italian Renaissance plan. Photo by Byunggu Yu(#2-4/June 1998).
Temple
of Dawn/Wat Arun
Bangkok
Bangkok is
named after the Indian god of dawn, Aruna. Temple of Dawn stands 82 meters
tall across the river from Bangkok is covered with
Chinese porcelain and numerous figures in Bangkok. Photo by Byunggu Yu(#5/June 1998).
Democracy
Monument
Thanon Dinso, Bangkok
Public monument in the centre of Bangkok. It occupies a traffic circle on the wide
east-west boulevard Thanon Ratchadamnoen Klang. Commissioned in 1939 by the military ruler of Thailand to
commemorate the June 1932 military coup which led to the establishment of a
constitutional monarchy in what was then the Kingdom of Siam.
Designe by Mew Aphaiwong, an
architect whose brother Khuang Aphaiwong was a leading member of
Phibun's regime. The Italian sculptor Corrado Feroci, who was a Thai citizen, executed the relief sculptures around the base of
the monument. The wings are 24m high. Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
Krisda Plaza
Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Highriser
Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Riverside Building
Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Riverside Residence
Mekong River, Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu(#4/June 1998).
Riverside Temple
Bangkok
Photo by Byunggu Yu on June 1998.
Shrine
Bangkok
Photo by Changyong Shin on 2004.
Down Town
Bangkok
Photo by Changyong Shin on 2004.
Market Scene
Bangkok
Photo by Changyong Shin on 2004.
Zen Central World
1 Petchburi Road, Rataevee Bangkok
The largest lifestyle shopping complexes in Southeast Asia caters for all tastes
with an unrivalled mix of shopping, dinning and lifestyle experiences. Along with
over 500 Thai and international stores, 50 restaurants, two department stores
and two state of the art entertainment complexes. Photo by Changyong Shin on 2004.
Folk Village
near Bangkok
Photo by Byunguh Yu on January 1989.
