Project: Central Festival Chiang Mai Location : Chiang Mai, Thailand Type: Retail centre Size: 210,000 m2 Client: Central Pattana Design : Girimun Ltd 2012 Opening: 2015

Sitting on a prominent corner on Chiang Mai ring road, this lifestyle retail centre combines indoor shopping and outdoor enjoyment. The main building features 5 levels of shopping, eating, entertainment, multiplex cinema and ice-skating rink and extends outwards through a system of canopy links that connect to event plazas and pavilion buildings amongst landscaped gardens. The curves of our contemporary design find inspiration on the surrounding rice paddy fields of the valley where the early “Lanna” - meaning “million terraces” – culture has prospered.

Girimun Architects: http://girimun.com