Mario Kleff

Mario Kleff (born November 21 1967 in Boppard), German and is a working building designer, automotive designer and entrepreneur. He moved to Bonn in 1990 to pursue a career in fine arts and followed it with a series of exhibitions about the ancient Book of Kells in association with Gutenberg Museum curator Dr. Adolf Wild, and Dom and Diocesan Museum , curator Professor Dr. Michael Embach. This brought him to the attention of the public and earned him widespread acclaimed from distinguished sources, including by His Excellency Padraig Murphy, Ambassador of Ireland and Trier Domkapitular Prälat Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Ronig, expert for medieval manuscripts and governor of Pro Libris e.V..

Biography

Mario Kleff dedicated his young life to intensive studies of Book of Kells and copied several folios which today are in the hand of private collectors. His career was further enhanced by the advent of new media in 1995. He won critical acclaim and became creative director at BBDO, is one of the three worldwide largest advertising agencies network, with its headquarters in New York, and Hakuhodo , is Japan's second largest advertising agency, where he produced communication design, but received harsh feedback for controversial art performances at Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Germany. Visitors to his exhibition volunteered samples of their own blood for a silk screen prints and he challenged the art world with claims such as "Art is dead", "Human Being Is Art" and "Do Ut Des", which loosely translates as "You give so that I may give".

Mario Kleff' has also been board member of New Econ AG and a automotive designer with Pattaya Car Checkpoint and Thai Hot Rod Shop where he is in 2010/2011 having built two street supercars and a street superbike of his own design. His unique concepts are matched with unique and powerful engines (V-Twin and V8) designed by him and built abroad to his specifications .

He first arrived in Bangkok, Thailand in 2002 and two years later moved to Pattaya where he has since worked as principal building designer and CEO within his registered company Wandeegroup Thailand Co. Ltd. Mario Kleff was first honored for his architectural works by the Construction Department Pattaya City-Hall, in 2004. He received extraordinary permits to work as an architect and building designer also civil engineering designer (Work Permit No. ลภ/ชบ 1134/47), to be official allowed to design construction and buildings in Thailand.

The following year he married Nittaya Wongsin, also known as Meow, a daughter of a traditional Chinese tailor, who was formerly the personal tailor of Queen Rambhai Barni, wife of King Prajadhipok Rama VII. Astonishingly, the wedding took place in, Wat Yangsangwararam, the royal temple under the patronage of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The fact that they got married in Wat Yan is astounding, as normally only royalty is allowed to perform any ceremony in the temple's precincts, let alone mere commoners.

Architecture

Inspired by the simplicity and aesthetics of Zen Buddhism he started as an building designer with M.I.N design before launching the Wandeegroup Co. Ltd. In 2008 and 2010 he was invited by the Pattaya Authority and Pattaya City-Hall Department to design a architecture landmark for Pattaya and a memorial for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Mario Kleff earned the title architect. Pichet Uthaiwattananonta, Head of Construction Department Pattaya City-Hall, and Dr. Songkiat Mathupayonta, civil engineer recommended Mario Kleff for a Honorary degree in architecture and engineering . He designed the highest single showroom construction - construction license no. 21/2552 - ever built before in Thailand.

Mario Kleff was firmly established as Pattaya's most famous building designer and architect and, still in 2010, holds the record for the most real estate development designs submitted and approved by local Government and Pattaya City-Hall. Several high-rise buildings on the drawing board include the 38-storey W-Tower at Wong Amat, Pattaya, Thailand.. Recognised as one of the most influential figures in architecture in the Chonburi Province, is renowned for continuously reinventing his design concepts and for retaining a high level of independence and control within Pattaya's real estate sector. He was the first to obtain approval to use cellular steel I beam technology for building construction in Thailand, which he successfully utilized in the Park Royal 2 condominium project. In addition to the commercial condominium buildings, Mario Kleff has designed and built a number of ultra-modern private villas for his international clients. In 2010, Mario Kleff starts as real estate developer and launches his first development The Touch® Condominium , with a second high-rise on the drawing board planned for Bangkok in 2011. Mario Kleff to date has designed five iconic high-rise developments including W-Tower Pattaya, The Touch Pattaya, Sky Park Twin Towers Jomtien and Princess Bangkok.

Projects (Selection)

Mario Kleff's Capsule House

Single homes and private residential villas

  • W-Tower Display, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 21/2552
  • Zen House, Pratumnak Hill Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 286/2551
  • Wing House, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 239/2550
  • Star House, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 894/2549
  • Villa Futureproof, Pattaya, Thailand - Consrtuction license no. 162/2551
  • Falling Rain House, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 1081/2549
  • Koi House, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 998/2549
  • Phoenix Villa, Phoenix Golf Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 328/2552

Condominium low rise and high-rise buildings

  • Club Royal Condominium with 6 buildings, Wong Amat Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 378/2552, 441/2552, 486/2552, 485/2552, 575/2552, 576/2552
  • Laguna Heights, Wong Amat Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 640/2551
  • Park Royal Condominium with 4 buildings, Pratumnak Hill Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 278/2551, 234/2552, 211/2553, 232/2553
  • Wave Condominium with 2 buildings, Bang Sare, Thailand - Construction license no. 35/2552, 36/2552
  • I-condominium, Pattaya Thailand - Construction license no. 590/2551
  • On The Hill Condominium, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 274/2552
  • Suan Sawan Condominium with 13 buildings, Jomtien Thailand - Construction license no. 22/2552, 699/2551, 08/2552, 642/2551, 613/2551, 542/2551, 457/2551, 386/2553, 387/2553, 389/2553, 40/2554, 732/2553, 39/2554
  • W-Tower, Wong Amat Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license no. 233/2553
  • Sky Park and Park Side Shopping, Jomtien, Thailand - Construction license under progress
  • The Touch, Pattaya, Thailand - Construction license under progress

Public and Thai-Government buildings

  • Memorial for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Pattaya Thailand
  • Iconic Landmark for Pattaya-City, Pattaya Thailand

References

Recommendation letter for Honorary Degree by Pichet Uthaiwattananonta, Head of Construction Department Pattaya City-Hall for honorary degree - 2010