The Old School Cambodia

16/01/2021

The challenge

For all expatriates who live in Cambodia, 2020 has not been a pleasant year. Stories about people not getting paid and selling items from their already minimalistic households to stick on, or about…

14/07/2020

The Khmer house legend.

Asking around about the topic of the Khmer wooden house, one sooner or later arrives at two unusually prominent figures. One is a Mr. Collins, an Australian art historian, and the other is Mr. Hok …

25/05/2020

https://leclassique.org/2020/05/25/kingdoms-modern-architecture-fails-caveman/

April is the cruelest month, as T.S.Eliot so famously put it, living in Cambodia, one could never truly understand how until one received his electricity bill at the end of the month. With an urban…

23/09/2016

Founded under French colonial rule, had been one of the elite schools in Indochina. The campus buildings have been freshly painted and repaired in recent years and the architecture is orderly and s…

15/09/2016

Built in the beginning of the 20th century by a Mr. Tan (presumably Chen 陳 in Mandarin) as his Phnom Penh home. Mr. Tan was a Hokkien Chinese among the early emigrants to Cambodia and evidently a s…

14/09/2016

  Colonial style townhouse In desolate condition, ground floor serving as local shops in the market place, upper floor as residential homes for the unprivileged, roof terrace in desperate disu…

09/09/2016

One of the very few beautiful works of Romanesque elements in the kingdom.

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11/12/2015

Cambodia's 1st sea-side golf course, 30km away from Sihanoukville.

14/11/2015

Typical Chinese speed.

08/10/2015

The Sweden one is brilliant!!

From New York to London to Rome, you can't miss these outlandishly luxurious hotel suites.