Robot Building Still Draws Attention

Posted 5 Sep 2006 at 16:29 UTC by Rog-a-matic

Among the unusual buildings listed at UniqueDaily.com, you'll find the "Robot Building" in Bangkok. Designed by Sumet Jumsai, a Thai architect, with inspiration from his son's toy robot. The 20-story building was constructed in 1985 and houses the Bank of Asia.

A few links..., posted 5 Sep 2006 at 18:49 UTC by steve » (Master)

Here's a bio of Sumet Jumsai. You can find a photo of him and another of his buildings on the Caroun.com architecture site.

Flickr turns up plenty of photos of the robot building itself:

http://static.flickr.com/1/891341_3317f0686a_o.jpg

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/vman_guru/117512187/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/87348839@N00/230125204/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/78734153@N00/183378559/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/quitepeculiar/27136386/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/99783182@N00/28747597/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/russau/38188459/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/74636276@N00/36370208/

http://www2.flickr.com/photos/derekb/5806079/

Robot building makes for robot inspired societies., posted 6 Sep 2006 at 08:26 UTC by marev » (Observer)

Nice buildings,maybe all should be designed and built to look like robots,in order to inspire robotic thinking societies.

Huge robot swallows bank of Asia!, posted 6 Sep 2006 at 16:30 UTC by The Swirling Brain » (Master)

That's funny. So is it a building desguised as a robot or a robot disguised as a building?

While I was in Japan, I noticed the architechure and many buildings had sort of a mechanized look to it. Like one side of a building might have something that looks like a timing chain cover and built sort of like an engine.

I really like that. Why just make a boring saltines shaped building all the time. For goodness sake, if we've got to look at it for years and years, make something nice, interesting and perhaps fun to look at.

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