Thailand

The completion of Thailand's tallest tower was celebrated last week with a spectacular light show. The MahaNakhon, which covers an area of 14,950 sq m in Bangkok's Sathorn Central Business District and rises to 314-m, is wrapped in a distinctive ribbon of pixels.

A new skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand, is wrapped in a spiralling pixelated ribbon that gives the sense of the building being unfinished. The MahaNakhon is the Thai capital's tallest tower at 314 m (1,030 ft), boasting luxury residences and a sky bar.

Although solar panels can be used to power a home with clean energy, demand for power fluctuates during the day and excess power is often also produced. A new development in Chiang Mai, Thailand, reportedly solves these problems. It converts excess power to hydrogen and stores it for use later.

Keeping kids occupied can be a job in itself. That is, unless your house is one big adventure playground. Jerry House, designed by Thai architecture firm Onion, has nets, ladders and tunnels that provide both an environment in which kids can play and a means of moving around the house.

As modern cities grow more densely populated and available living space shrinks correspondingly, ensuring that space is maximized to its full potential is essential. One proposal for making the most of the space we have comes via Thailand-based company Apostrophe's Living in the City housing unit.

Thailand's Songkran Festival is unquestionably the world's biggest waterfight. Sixty million people going nuts for a week. Another must-see photo essay.

The Detroit of the East came of age this year, finally becoming one of the largest and most vibrant automobile shows in the world. Thailand is now a top ten auto maker.

The Bangkok Motorbike Festival is quite unlike any other motorcycle show on Earth.

A Thai school has built four low-impact temporary bamboo dormitories designed to house refugee children from bordering Burma.

Shma's bold "water city" concept is a reimagining of the medieval Thai city of Ayutthaya, that rethinks flood defenses for the 21st century by drawing inspiration from the past.

Thailand's Songkran Festival is centuries old, though the Buddhist meanings of the throwing of water are lost on visitors - to them, it's just the world's biggest water-fight. If your inner child needs some nurturing, this is the place to get it.