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  • Urbanism
  • 05 Jan 2026
  • 6 min

Tall Stories 490: How renovations stripped Bangkok’s Robot Building of its personality

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  • The Urbanist
  • Urbanism
  • 6 min

Tomás Pinheiro explains how an act of urban erasure in the Thai capital stole the charm from one of the city’s iconic structures.

Host
  • Andrew Tuck
Contributors
  • Andrew Tuck
  • David Stevens
  • Tomás Pinheiro

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