The restoration of the principal chedi at Wat Prayoon in Bangkok has been honoured with the Award of Excellence in the 2013 Unesco Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation, the Unesco’s Bangkok office announced today.
The award recognises the work undertaken on the Phra Borommathat Maha Chedi and the attached hall, Pharin Pariyattithammasala, for its technical achievement and for the outstanding social impact sparked by the conservation project.
In June this year a panel of international conservation experts was convened to review and deliberate on the 47 entries received from 16 countries across the Asia-Pacific region.
The restoration of the historically significant stupa and its attached hall has preserved one of Bangkok’s most iconic religious monuments. In strengthening the interior structure while maintaining the external shell of the dramatically leaning stupa, the project demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of a unique architectural typology from the early Rattanakosin era, the Nation reported
