Icon Siam and Hilton Milennium Hotel Picture by marhas
Bulgari, Cartier, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Versace and every luxury label you can imagine in the fashion department. Showrooms for Rolls-Royce, Porsche, Maserati. A Thai floating and crafts market, Sook Siam, where up to 400 vendors from the 77 provinces of Thailand sell their goods. The Thai debut of Japanese giant Takashimaya, selling over 500 world-renowned brands, mostly japanese, in its seven-storey building. And seven dining zones: Bangkok has an overwhelming new landmark: Icon Siam, the fanciest mall in Thailand.
On Thonburis side of Chao Phraya River the new shopping, lifestyle and entertainment complex is covering 525000 square metres, including a 10,000 square metre River Park and two luxury condominiums – the Magnolias Waterfront Residences Iconsiam and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Its all-glass facade reflects the “kratong” (a floating vessel used during Loy Kratong festival) and “baisri” (traditional flower arrangement with folded leaves). The River Park has a 400 metres high light-and-sound dancing fountain. Every evening it creates 2D, 3D and 4D visuals that move in all directions and enlight the night.
Iconluxe contains all the elements that Bangkok’s luxury scene has to offer. You find uncountable luxury fashion boutiques. For example Chinese brand Urban Revivo‘s first shop in Asia.
Siam Takashimaya: You find Taka Marche supermarket on the groundfloor, which sells fresh food sent directly from Japan. Then there is Cosmo, the japanese beauty megachain with up to 6000 beauty products from 600 Japanese brands. You find men’s and women’s clothing, toys, home appliances, home decoration and kitchenware.
Eating at Icon Siam "Icon Siam is slowly proving that it’s also a strong contender when it comes to providing serious eats", writes Timeout Bangkok.
At Sook Siam (ground floor and underground) food stalls are selling tasty eats with reasonable price.
The Veranda on the ground floor has 24 different eateries.
On the fourth floor of Siam Takashiyama there is Rose Dining: seven Japanese eateries and one cafe. You discover Hokkaido Dosanko Plaza with Japanese and Western sweets and delicacies. Leading Japanese restaurants are situated on the ground floor like Katsukura, famed for their crispy pork Tonkatsu, Miso soup and a lots of sauces.
One corner on the fourth floor of Iconluxe is called Icon Eats and you find some of Thailands best-known restaurants like Baan Khanitha, S&P and Food Republic.
Icon Dining Rooms on the fifth floor are perfect for family gatherings and celebrations, their TasanaNakorn Terrace Bar offers panoramic views of the capital’s skyline across Chao Phraya River.
The 6th floor is dedicated to Alangkarn. It houses four cafes, 17 restaurants and 12 international restaurants from Thai to Chinese, Japanese, Indian and French. It uses rice-inspired motifs as design showing rice paddies, a waterfall and Thai pavilions, paying homage to the country’s rice-growing culture. "When it comes to spicy and tasty Isaan classics and fresh seafood, look no further than Lay Lao", writes The Nation. "Grand Palace", one of Bangkok’s famed Chinese restaurants, is renowned for dim sum and Peking duck. Cafe Waan Phor Dee offers Thai traditional desserts.
Sook Siam: Sook (สุข) means happy, happiness. Sook Siam floating market has the ‘Thai Old-school’ theme. You can discover many types of food that you wouldn’t see often elsewhere as it’s old-fashion and not so common anymore. You can find "Kanom Kai Pla" (ขนมไข่ปลา), freeze dried mango sticky rice and freeze dried mangosteen. The entire 15000 sq meters of the ground floor is dedicated to Sook Siam. And visitors can shop for a wide variety of fashion items, traditional arts and crafts.
Iconcraft on the 4th and 5th floors is divided into seven categories presenting art pieces made by talented Thai craftsmen from sculptural ware and furniture to paintings and textiles: The Painter, The Sculptor, The Carpenter, The Gastronomer, The Therapist, The Smith, and The Weaver.
Icon Cineconic Cinema: There are 14 different screen options.
River Museum Bangkok: The museum will occupy 6,500 sq meters on the 8th floor and is set to open in July 2019.
Right by the pier of Icon Siam came Srimahasamut เรือสำเภาศรีมหาสมุทร, Bangkok’s first floating museum on the river, in the form of a wooden sailing junk, a replica of a historic trading boat. It payed homage to the 250th anniversary of King Taksins accession to the throne and was open until January in 2019. Each of the cabins took you back to the prime periods of Thai maritime history. The Captain’s Cabin focused on the history of ship trade and Krung Thonburi as a port city for commerce. The Crew Cabin illustrated the life on board. The Civilization Archive told of King Taksins city rebuilding initiatives and the history of trade relations and diplomacy between Thonburi and China.
Icon Siam Mall, situated on Charoen Nakorn Road in Klong San, is the result of a USD 1.65 billion invested by Siam Piwat (owners and operators of big-top retail developments like Siam Center, Siam Paragon and Siam Discovery), Magnolia Quality Development Corporation (MQDC) and Charoen Pokphand Group.
Riverfront redevelopment in bangkok has been booming since 2007, lining the banks with multimillion-baht condos like The River by Raimonland and the Chartrium. The Charoen Phokphand Group converted a clutch of old warehouses into Asiatique the Riverfront, notes freshbangkok.com. The Thonburi side of Chao Phraya River also has the commercial and leisure attraction Lhong 1919. Other abandoned storage houses and shophouses in Thonburi’s Khongsan neighbourhood have been transformed by artists and designer collectives into galleries and co-working spaces and Boutique hotels have been developped, notes asianews. More development will come, as the BTS Skytrain Gold Line will lead from Krung Thonburi station to Taksin Hospital. To bring in the tourists and shoppers, Iconsiam contributed about Bt2 billion to the mass-transit rail project, earning in return the right to advertise on the BTS coaches for the next 20 years, reports The Nation.
“Waterfront development has become a key urban redevelopment trend around the world and Bangkok is following that trend,” says Asst Professor Apiwat Ratanawaraha, a scholar on the subject at Chulalongkorn University according to The Nation. “The investment in Iconsiam indicates that city development is now shifting from Bangkok to Thonburi and returning to the river again,” adds Pitch Pongsawat, a political scientist at the same school. “Thonburi has become a new battlefield for property developers.”
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