Standard Chartered: Bangkok HQ and a regional partnership

In 2000, three years after it opened, ANBS won Standard Chartered's Bangkok headquarters. The bank went on to make the Bangkok firm and its Rhino brand a regional supplier.

The Bangkok headquarters took 12,000 m², with a further 4,000 m² across the bank's branches in the city.

Then the relationship crossed borders. Rhino floored the Standard Chartered headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, a building of 24,000 m², awarded in 2004. The Dubai headquarters followed in 2005 at 20,000 m², and Standard Chartered in Karachi took 5,000 m².

For Tok, and for the late Wes Carroll, the co-founder he credits with building the company alongside him, it showed that a small Bangkok firm could follow a global bank across the region.

Other case studies

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• UOB, Bangkok: two towers, 40,300 m²
• G Tower, Bangkok: 21,000 m² RhinoROC
• Major Cineplex: 40,000 m² across Thailand
• HSBC HQ, Bangkok: 11,000 m², 1999
• Lifting Bangkok: How a Thai Firm Put Asia's Banks on Rhino Floors