New World Department Store (Bangkok)

It stood on the corner of Bang Lamphu Intersection and operated from 1983 until 2004, when the building partially collapsed during a long-delayed court-ordered demolition of illegally built floors, killing one person.

New World was among an emerging new generation of integrated department stores and shopping centres that became popular in Bangkok in the 1980s, counting among its contemporaries Pata [th], Merry Kings [th], as well as early branches of Central and The Mall.

Construction began in 1982, and continued after the mall opened, even as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) denied its request for additional approval in 1984.

Further wrangling over demolition costs delayed action until work finally began at the end of 2003, all while shops remained open on the lower floors.

[4] On 2 June 2004, part of the building's eighth floor—where rubble from the demolition work had been piled—suddenly collapsed, and the falling debris severely injured two people on the first (ground) floor, one of whom died in hospital.