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| A different ball game: Bangkok's crooked football pitches | |
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| Throw the FIFA pitch requirements handbook out the window. In hodgepodge Bangkok, football fields don’t even need to be rectangular. | Throw the FIFA pitch requirements handbook out the window. In hodgepodge Bangkok, football fields don’t even need to be rectangular. |
| A Thai real estate developer has built four misshapen pitches in Khlong Toei, an extremely densely-populated area of the capital where the proliferation of high and low-rise apartments have left little space for parks or play areas. | A Thai real estate developer has built four misshapen pitches in Khlong Toei, an extremely densely-populated area of the capital where the proliferation of high and low-rise apartments have left little space for parks or play areas. |
| Cj Worx, the advertising agency employed by developerAP Thailand to run the Unusual Football Field project, said the area had “numerous asymmetrical spaces” scattered around. | Cj Worx, the advertising agency employed by developerAP Thailand to run the Unusual Football Field project, said the area had “numerous asymmetrical spaces” scattered around. |
| The concept of the project, its creators said, was to transform irregularly-shaped areas into practical football fields that still allow fair play. Each pitch is painted brick-red and with markings in grey. | The concept of the project, its creators said, was to transform irregularly-shaped areas into practical football fields that still allow fair play. Each pitch is painted brick-red and with markings in grey. |
| “We hope that other communities will adapt this idea to change their own irregular space,” the agency said. | “We hope that other communities will adapt this idea to change their own irregular space,” the agency said. |
| “This unusual football field has proven that designing outside boundaries can help foster creativity used to develop these useful spaces.” One pitch curves around a discarded shipping container on one side and a building on the other. | “This unusual football field has proven that designing outside boundaries can help foster creativity used to develop these useful spaces.” One pitch curves around a discarded shipping container on one side and a building on the other. |
| Bangkok, a city of eight million built over a swamp, is desperately running out of space, with new malls and residential projects often destroying poorer communities and food markets. | Bangkok, a city of eight million built over a swamp, is desperately running out of space, with new malls and residential projects often destroying poorer communities and food markets. |