Bangkok’s Newest Hotel Gives Over Its Public Spaces to Thai Women Artists
Inside One Bangkok on Wireless Road, the new 244-room Andaz organises itself as a vertical neighbourhood, and hands its most prominent spaces to a roster of Thai women artists
At the front of Andaz One Bangkok stands Origin Unfold, a work assembled from more than 15,000 ceramic pieces — clay from Mae Rim in Chiang Mai and Chae Hom in Lampang, joined by stainless steel bars using a technique borrowed from Thai crafts such as garland making. It is the largest piece its maker, Aor Sutthiprapha, has produced, and it sets out the hotel’s approach in miniature: take something local and granular, and scale it up.
Andaz One Bangkok opened in December 2025, the first hotel under Andaz, Hyatt’s lifestyle brand, in the capital and the second in Thailand. It sits inside mixed-use complex One Bangkok on Wireless Road, the street that once held Thailand’s first radio telegraph station and now holds offices, residences, retail and a live-entertainment arena. The hotel has its own tower within that complex, steps from Lumphini Park, with a direct MRT connection.
The organising idea, from Thailand’s PIA on interiors and A49 on architecture, is what the team calls a ‘vertical neighbourhood’: the building is read floor by floor as a sequence of Bangkok districts. ‘The concept is rooted in a period when Bangkok balanced modernity with a strong sense of local character,’ the PIA team says, citing inspiration from ‘the everyday details that give the neighbourhood its identity: ventilation blocks, mid-century architectural elements and the vibrant graphic language found throughout nearby streets.’ The arrival lobby is the Urban District, its entrance structures shaped to resemble the green canopies of Lumphini Park — a concept ‘embedded from the earliest stages of the design process,’ says Pichai Wongwaisayawan, managing director of A49. ‘The entrance structures and graphic patterns were inspired by the branching forms of trees within the park, translating natural elements into architectural language,’ he adds. A second lobby space, Gallery Alley, has a marble floor patterned after Bangkok’s footpaths. The seventh floor, home to the pool, is the Royal Clubhouse, a nod to the Polo Club that has stood nearby since 1978. The predominant references are to the Thai mid-century movement, including landmarks such as Vidyu Palace.
A notable share of the commissioned art comes from Thai women artists. Pinaree Sanpitak, known for her Breast Stupa series, created Pocket of Nature for the arrival lobby — a mixed-media wall of, inter alia, dried flowers, cast aluminium, a wooden vase, a transistor radio and historical photographs. Pim Sudhikam’s Apocrypha Scripta is fired from clay dug during One Bangkok’s own construction. In Gallery Alley, Ploenchan Vinyaratn’s Blockwilt is created from upcycled yarns, beards and hand-tufted carpet, its bright forms lifted from nearby sights: tangled overhead wires, the Lumphini Park clock tower, the rounded shapes of Siri Apartment.
The guestrooms are what one would expect of the brand — spacious, elegantly appointed, colourful without feeling busy. The 244 rooms and suites run from 38 square metres to the 197-square-metre Presidential Suite, most facing the park, with 24-hour lounge access, a saltwater infinity pool and Byredo amenities throughout. Boulevard-side rooms are slanted, Wongwaisayawan notes, ‘so views of the park can be enjoyed instead of facing directly into the neighbouring tower.’ The rooftop bar, he adds, is conceived as ‘a tree extruded to the sky through the curvature of the glass walls, putting emphasis on the dialogue with Lumphini Park.’
It joins a crowded stretch of Wireless Road, and a crowded market for new hotels, as the new kid on the block — for now.
Text by Katherine Ring
Images courtesy of Andaz Hotels
