Siam Paragon ( th, สยามพารากอน) is a shopping mall in
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...
,
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
. It is one of the largest malls in Thailand, along with
IconSiam,
CentralWorld and
CentralPlaza WestGate
Central WestGate ( th, เซ็นทรัล เวสต์เกต) (previously known as CentralPlaza WestGate) is a large shopping plaza and complex in Bang Yai district, Nonthaburi province, Thailand. The complex, which includes cine ...
.
Siam Paragon includes a range of specialty stores and restaurants as well as a
multiplex
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* Multiplex (automobile), a former American car make
* Multiplex (comics), a DC comic book supervillain
* Multiplex (company), a global contracting and development company
* Multiplex (assay), a biological assay which measu ...
(15 large screen cinemas), the
Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium
An aquarium (plural: ''aquariums'' or ''aquaria'') is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aq ...
, an exhibition hall, the Thai Art Gallery, and an opera concert hall. It also has a bowling alley and karaoke centre. It is a joint venture by
Siam Piwat
Siam Piwat is a Bangkok-based retail and development company. The company is best known for managing Siam Center, Siam Discovery, Siam Paragon, and Iconsiam shopping malls in Bangkok, Thailand.
History
Siam Piwat Company Limited was first estab ...
, the company that owns the adjacent
Siam Center/Siam Discovery shopping malls, and
The Mall Group
The Mall Group ( th, เดอะมอลล์กรุ๊ป) is one of Thailand's largest mall operators. Its brands include The Mall, Emporium, Siam Paragon, Power Mall, Gourmet Market, The Mall SkyPORT, EmQuartier, SportsMall, BeTren ...
, which owns
The Emporium. Siam Paragon's financial results are not reported by the privately held Siam Paragon Development.
History
Siam Paragon was built on the former site of the
Siam Intercontinental Hotel
The Siam InterContinental Hotel was a luxury hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. It stood on Rama I Road, in the neighbourhood now known as Siam in Pathum Wan District, on land leased from Sa Pathum Palace. It opened as part of Pan Am's InterContinental ...
, which was demolished in 2002 at the end of its lease. The site, leased for 30 years, is
Crown Property Bureau
The Crown Property Bureau (CPB) ( th, สำนักงานทรัพย์สินพระมหากษัตริย์; ) is legally the administrative agency responsible for managing the property of the King of Thailand. It has no ...
land and at one time was the royal parkland of
Sa Pathum Palace
Sa Pathum Palace ( th, วังสระปทุม, ) is a royal residence in Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, Thailand. It has been a residence of the Thai Royal Family, especially the House of Mahidol, since the 19th century, and is the officia ...
. The mall opened on 9 December 2005 at a cost of about 15 billion
baht
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or US$450 million. It covers an area of 52
rai (8.3 ha; 21 acres).
Location
Siam Paragon is on Rama I Road in
Pathum Wan
Pathum Wan ( th, ปทุมวัน, ) is one of the fifty districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. It lies just beyond the old city boundary of Khlong Phadung Krung Kasem, and was a rural area on the eastern outskirts of the city when roy ...
District, adjacent to
other shopping areas. It is next door to
Siam Center
Siam Center ( th, สยามเซนเตอร์) is a shopping center near Siam BTS station in Bangkok, Thailand.http://www.bangkok.com/shopping-mall/siam-center.htm
History
Siam Center was built in 1973 as one of Bangkok's first shoppin ...
and
Siam Discovery Center
Siam Center ( th, สยามเซนเตอร์) is a shopping center near Siam BTS station in Bangkok, Thailand.http://www.bangkok.com/shopping-mall/siam-center.htm
History
Siam Center was built in 1973 as one of Bangkok's first shoppin ...
and opposite
Siam Square.
MBK Center is also nearby. An elevated walkway beneath the
BTS Skytrain
The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain ( th, รถไฟฟ้าบีทีเอส '' TS'), is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), a ...
tracks links Siam Paragon to the
Ratchaprasong intersection, where
CentralWorld,
Gaysorn
Gaysorn Village (previously Gaysorn Plaza) is a building complex in the Ratchaprasong area of Bangkok. It also includes the Gaysorn Tower, an office tower block, and the Amarin Plaza shopping centre.
The shopping mall building has five levels wi ...
and several other shopping malls and hotels are located.
Transportation
*
BTS Skytrain
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Sukhumvit and
Silom
Si Lom Road (also written as Silom, th, สีลม, ) is a major street in the Thai capital Bangkok, best known for its commercial neighbourhood, which, along with the nearby and roughly parallel Sathon Road, forms one of the city's main bus ...
Lines –
Siam station
Siam station (, , ) is the cross-platform interchange station for the BTS Skytrain in Pathum Wan district, Bangkok, Thailand. It is the largest and busiest station on the BTS with 40,000–50,000 passengers per day, where passengers on the Sukh ...
has a skybridge linked to Siam Paragon's M floor.
* Parking – 100,000 square metres, accommodating 4,000 cars.
Department store and retail shops
The Paragon Department Store occupies 50,000 square metres. Another 40,000 square metres are devoted to retail shops selling goods ranging from apparel to groceries to expensive automobiles.
Thai traditional art
There is a section of Thai traditional arts shops offering a range of decorative silk, ivory and antique items.
Royal Paragon Hall
The Royal Paragon Hall is a 12,000 square metre events facility, with a capacity of 5,000 persons suitable for concerts, conventions, and special exhibitions.
Hotel
The Siam
Kempinski
Kempinski Hotels S.A., commonly known as Kempinski, is a luxury hotel management company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in Berlin in 1897 as the ''Hotelbetriebs-Aktiengesellschaft'', the group currently operates 78 five-star ...
Hotel and serviced apartment complex is on a at the rear of the Siam Paragon property.
Energy footprint
Siam Paragon consumes roughly 123 GWh of electricity a year (2011). By comparison, over the same period, Mae Hong Son Province's quarter-million inhabitants used 65 GWh.
File:Foodcourt Siam Paragon.jpg, Food Court (2006)
File:Siam Paragon GF Gourmet Garden view 201801.jpg, Gourmet Garden ceiling designed by Korakot Aromdee
File:Siam Paragon Level M 201801.jpg, Level M
File:Siam Paragon Level 2 201801.jpg, Level 2
File:Siam Paragon Level 3 201801.jpg, Level 3
File:Siam Paragon Level 4 Food Passage 201801.jpg, Food Passage in Level 4
File:Siam Paragon Level 5 201801.jpg, Kidzania in Level 5
See also
*
List of shopping malls in Thailand
The following is a list of notable shopping malls in Thailand, by province:
Bangkok
Chiang Mai Province
* Central Chiang Mai
* Central Chiang Mai Airport
Chiang Rai Province
* Central Chiang Rai
Chonburi Province
Chonburi
* Central Ch ...
*
List of largest shopping malls in Thailand
The following is a list of Thailand's largest shopping malls, ranked by gross leasable area
In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured as square feet or square metres) taken up by ...
References
External links
Paragon CineplexRoyal Paragon HallThe Pride of Bangkok
{{Shopping malls in Thailand
Shopping malls in Bangkok
The Mall Group
Pathum Wan district
Shopping malls established in 2005
Thai companies established in 2005
Food halls