{"id":5887,"date":"2018-10-17T14:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2018-10-20T22:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T09:05:28","slug":"building-boom-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=5887","title":{"rendered":"Building boom in Thailand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cranes everywhere, hoardings on every street and road advertising new houses, offices and apartments: Thailand seems to be developing again with gusto.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-5889 size-full\" height=\"2430\" width=\"2525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945.jpg 2525w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945-150x144.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945-768x739.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2945-960x924.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2525px) 100vw, 2525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Bangkok it&#8217;s high-rise commercial building&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5883\" height=\"3024\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2930-960x960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; while I n the southern provinces there are vast numbers of low-rise, separated dwelling schemes going up. Many of these looked to have been on the market for months or years, going by the &#8216;launch dates&#8217; announced (in English) on their hoardings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5884\" height=\"3024\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2931-960x960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was interesting cycling slowly from the southern Gulf Coast towards Bangkok to note the advertised prices gradually -then exponentially- increase.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these low-rise schemes looked to be quite far from town centres and services; I wondered what measures planners had taken to counteract car dependence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-5885 size-full\" height=\"3024\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2911-960x960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge -manned- gate structures often feature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5886\" height=\"3024\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_2902-960x960.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5882\" height=\"750\" width=\"1684\" srcset=\"http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059.jpg 1684w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059-150x67.jpg 150w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059-300x134.jpg 300w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059-768x342.jpg 768w, http:\/\/willandrewsdesign.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_3059-960x428.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1684px) 100vw, 1684px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[What&#8217;s this trip about? See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/?p=5752\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cranes everywhere, hoardings on every street and road advertising new houses, offices and apartments: Thailand seems to be developing again with gusto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,20,5,42,18,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.willandrewsdesign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}