General Post Office
Monumental nineteen-forties Art Deco building on the British Legation site, now a design center.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bangkok's General Post Office starts on 24 June 1940, exactly eight years after the People's Party ended Siam's absolute monarchy in a bloodless coup. It follows why the new government chose the former British Legation grounds to build here, and how architects Sarot Sukkhayang and Mew Aphaiwong turned a post office into a political statement, crowned with a giant Garuda. Look up at the cast-iron doors for the same bird-king worked into their design.
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