RonanTheBarbarian
March 28th, 2012, 05:50
Have been looking at some gay venues from Chiang Mai on the new Google streetview (sad i know...)
Have to say Club One Seven comes out of it badly, from an architectural point of view.
When I read about Club One Seven opening in Chiang Mai I looked up the site on Mapjack. I saw that where they were going to build it was the site of a little hotel already, called the River Ping Palace.
I thought it looked rather quaint and charming ( from the outside anyway). I remember thinking "I hope they dont change much of it"...
Here is a screen grab from Mapjack, from roughly 2008:
[attachment=1:2jzmik6o]Old Club One seven.PNG[/attachment:2jzmik6o]
So then I looked at the new pics from Google Streetview
They have built up a big wall about seven foot high, cleared away all the vegetation...not very nice I thought to myself...
Then I looked closer and realised they had topped this off with a big cylindrical ball of razor wire!
l[attachment=0:2jzmik6o]New club one Seven.PNG[/attachment:2jzmik6o]
Looks like bloody Alcatraz!
Is this quite necessary I wonder. It is in south Chiang Mai after all, not South Central LA
It would certainly put me off staying there. Heading off on a day tour from there, i would feel like I was out on day release.
Has any body else been looking on Google Streetview and noticed any surprises, good or bad?
Have to say Club One Seven comes out of it badly, from an architectural point of view.
When I read about Club One Seven opening in Chiang Mai I looked up the site on Mapjack. I saw that where they were going to build it was the site of a little hotel already, called the River Ping Palace.
I thought it looked rather quaint and charming ( from the outside anyway). I remember thinking "I hope they dont change much of it"...
Here is a screen grab from Mapjack, from roughly 2008:
[attachment=1:2jzmik6o]Old Club One seven.PNG[/attachment:2jzmik6o]
So then I looked at the new pics from Google Streetview
They have built up a big wall about seven foot high, cleared away all the vegetation...not very nice I thought to myself...
Then I looked closer and realised they had topped this off with a big cylindrical ball of razor wire!
l[attachment=0:2jzmik6o]New club one Seven.PNG[/attachment:2jzmik6o]
Looks like bloody Alcatraz!
Is this quite necessary I wonder. It is in south Chiang Mai after all, not South Central LA
It would certainly put me off staying there. Heading off on a day tour from there, i would feel like I was out on day release.
Has any body else been looking on Google Streetview and noticed any surprises, good or bad?