Architects 49 and TK Studio create an ultra-luxurious residential estate, envisaging a home nestled in nature

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok-based Architects 49 join forces with TK Studio landscape architects to design a premium residential development in modern tropical style with a Thai touch providing year-round comfort.

Santiburi by Architects 49 House Design Limited

The project has been awarded a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Wooden trellises at the entrance evoke a sense of natural simplicity, while the preservation of existing Willow and Rain-trees creates a focal point before entering the estate.

Santiburi by Architects 49 House Design Limited

“Ton Yaang Naa,” or Resin Trees have been planted throughout the property which

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MPs probe claims of Sh3.2 billion KICC renovation

When one of the workers carried out renovation work at the Kenyatta International Convention Center ahead of the Africa Climate Summit in 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

A House team has commenced investigations into how a Chinese firm allegedly inflated the cost of renovating the Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC) to Sh3.2 billion ahead of the African Climate Summit held in Nairobi last year.

This emerged after local contractors appeared before the National Assembly Tourism and Wildlife Committee, where they presented their petition for the intervention of Parliament over unpaid dues by the government amounting to Sh674.6 million.

The 14 contractors

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Developers look to revamp vacant buildings downtown

The Bayfront Hotel and the old Pope Building on Chaparral will both undergo millions of dollars of renovations with the help of those city dollars.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The downtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone, or TIRZ, board is made up mostly of council members and the mayor. They voted to give two projects a little over $5 million in incentives.

$3 million of those city incentives are going to Austin-based developer of the 416 Flats project, David Fournier. It’s a $15 million renovation of the historic Pope Building which was built back in 1929 at 416 North Chaparral.

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