Old Phuket - Phuket and The Charming

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Besides the amazing treasures of Phuket mentioned above, one of the charms can be seen in Phuket Town is its over half century old building. Most home residences, shops, official buildings etc. are showing its significant architecture.

Since most of Phuketians realize to conserve their heritage buildings to be their unique. In the past, these people had the close contact with the people in Penang because of the short distance to visit each other, the trade business, some had their children study there.

Those people observed and copy the building architecture to build their own in Phuket That is why Phuket is full of significantly difference in building architecture.

These buildings were buildings in the newly-developed in tin mining era. At first they were influenced by Chinese architecture. They were two-storey brick wood building, some were one story. Thick wall to shoulder the heavy curing Chinese style tiles. Roof designing including doors, windows were all influenced by Chinese architecture . Later, the architecture headed towards to western civilization. The architectures then got influence from Chino- Portuguese from Malay through Penang.

The Chino-Portuguese style architecture show the compositions of the classic Renaissance, neo-Europe classic with the mixture of Chinese, Thai style architecture. These new building architecture are about 60-100 years old. One of the charming of these house styles is using the arch in their work. There are curing pillars standing in row on the first floor in each building.

They are used to hold or carry the weight of the second floor and to mark the space of arcade or Nlgorkakee as the Chinese call as well. Ngorkakee means the pavement with the roofs. People may walk through. In the previous time, some areas in Bangkok, such as Charoenkrung, Bumrungmuang or Sao Ching Cha used to have the building with these styles.

The stucco of pillars edge, windows frames and decorations are all neat and attractive. There are many decorative styles at the pillar edges, such as Doris, lonic and Corintian styles and others. All of them represents the Renaissance and neo classic influence on the way of living. But the doors, window and interior decoration show the mixture of Chinese and Thai style or pure Chinese.

These old building still welcome all tourists at the old Phuket residence area on Thalang Road, Deebuk Road, Russada Road, and ect. It is such a good pleasure that these old building owners all understand the value to conserve their buildings.

They try to keep the buildings in good conditions. Some although have new buildings in this area but still bring or use the previous style to harmonize the surroundings. However some of these buildings have been out of repair or changed to be more modern while some are demolished.

Nowadays, both government and private organizations are giving hands each other to restore and keep these old buildings in good conditions for our generations.

Information from : phuket travel guide & phuket meedee