{"id":57477,"date":"2023-08-11T22:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/11\/outcry-over-loss-of-features-on-bangkok-landmark-robot-building"},"modified":"2023-08-11T22:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:33:03","slug":"outcry-over-loss-of-features-on-bangkoks-landmark-robot-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57477","title":{"rendered":"Outcry over loss of features on Bangkok\u2019s landmark \u2018robot building\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise renovation and call for better protection for the city\u2019s distinctive architecture<\/p>\n<p>A Bangkok landmark known as the \u201crobot building\u201d has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city\u2019s distinctive architecture to preserved.<\/p>\n<p>The building \u2013 in the form of a giant robot made up of stacks of cubes and inspired by the architect watching his son play with a toy \u2013 has loomed over one of Bangkok\u2019s busiest commercial districts for decades. Its design included oversized bolts and antenna, and windows shaped like cartoonish eyes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/11\/outcry-over-loss-of-features-on-bangkok-landmark-robot-building\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners criticise renovation and call for better protection for the city\u2019s distinctive architectureA Bangkok landmark known as the \u201crobot building\u201d has been stripped of its identity, heritage campaigners have said, as they called for the city\u2019s dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,91,41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477\/revisions\/57478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}