A green “oasis” park located downtown could finally open over four years after it was completed.
Several metal-sheeted hovels belonging to longtime residents were recently demolished, clearing the way for Pathumwananurak Park behind the CentralwOrld shopping mall to open, 49 months after it was finished.
The park is quite large. It spans 40 rai (64,000sqm) and was completed in December 2018, according to developer Landprocess, which built it for the Crown Property Bureau. Landprocess is headed by celebrated landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom, who is also credited with Bangkok’s Centenary Park, a university rooftop farm in the northern metro area, and a controversial canal park.
Coconuts has reached out to Kotchakorn for comment.
A sign at the park declares it to be an “Oasis in the City” that offers a “fresh remix of nature, open air and…
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