Riva Vista Riverfront Resort

AWARDS

2024

ASA Architectural Design Awards by The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage: Citation Award in Hotels and Leisure Building

“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.