Bangkok architecture studio Archismith has built a garden enclosed by 20,000 glass bricks as part of a sales office for a residential development in Bangkok, Thailand.
Named The Glass Fortress, the sales gallery has been longlisted in the Dezeen Awards 2019 within the business building category.

Archismith designed the space to be largely disconnected from its site as a rival developer's sales gallery is located nearby.
The main building is set back from the street with a protruding block constructed from glass bricks acting as an entrance pavilion and enclosing a garden.

"Eight-metre-high walls cut off pollution such as traffic noise and the untidy scenery of the MRT line construction in front so that a serene atmosphere can be created inside the building," said Jirawit Yamkleeb, co-founder of Archismith. "To reduce the claustrophobic feeling of the space, glass block was chosen as the main material since it serves the purpose and natural light can still get through," he told Dezeen.

Within the glass brick walls ? which are supported on a steel frame ? is a secret garden with trees planted on either side of a central path. A water-misting system has been installed to help control the temperature of the garden on hot days.
According to the architect, this space is meant to represent a large garden that will be built as part of the apartment development.
"There is a big garden provided at the main development so the garden at the sales gallery i...