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Global Best Design Hotel Design

Winner:IDIN Architects

WINNERS：Riva Vista Riverfront Resort

"Riva Vista Riverfront Resort” is a 61 keys hotel situated next to Kok River in the heart of Chiang Rai province. Known for its distinctive ancient traditions, Chiang Rai is experiencing a rapid growth in recent years and has become one of Thailand’s famous destinations. The brief requires a design of a medium-size hotel on a site that is adjacent to a river, in the heart of a city. It has to answer to the lifestyle of city dwellers, which is the main target user of the project. The architect’s intention is therefore, to capture the essence of modernity with a vernacular Northern Thai character and deconstruct both aspects into one seemingly peculiar “dish” that uses vernacular ingredients but prepared in modern techniques - a mixture of both old and new. Due to the site’s unique location, divided by a road and separated into two plots, one of the plots has its frontage along the bank of the Kok River, one of Chiang Rai’s main waterways. The all day dining as well as the main suites are placed in a building in this plot to take advantage of the river view.