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SOM reveals new project: One Bangkok

The firm is working in a new 16-hectare mixed-use development, a vertical village designed to foster community in the heart of Bangkok.

SOM (SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP) has revealed the designs for its new and ambitious project, one of the biggest in the world.  The firm is working with a team of local and international architecture and landscape architecture firms in an extensive collection of residential, hotel, retail, office, and public spaces in the heart of Bangkok. A new 16-hectare mixed-use development where an estimated 60,000 people will live and work in the district when complete in 2025  Its name: One Bagkok.

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One Bagkok will establishes a vertical village designed to foster community and promote well-being in a dense urban environment. The project also includes the design of several towers, each one unique in form and personality, but also adapted to the local tropical climate and, last but not least, sustainable and ecological. SOM Design Partner Scott Duncan states:

“Our vision for One Bangkok seeks to capture that energy, extending the vitality of the city’s streets through the district and then upward, weaving green, outdoor spaces into the fabric of the towers as they rise. Inside and out, places for collaboration, socializing, and relaxation cultivate community in a vertical environment.”

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SOM is one of the leading architecture firms in the world, its buildings are among the most iconics of the last decades. SOM is also an Architect-US Host Company. Since a few months, a young Spanish architect, Esteban Becerril, is working as a trainee in the studio firm in Washington D.C. You can read his posts to know about his professional experience in such an important firm, as his first and enthusiastic post: First Contact with SOM. Architect-US is sure that the collaboration with SOM will make possible more Architect-US experiences that will turn into successful architectural careers.

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