PP is ready for 133 storey twin towers - tallest building in SEA.

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timmydownawell wrote:
Anchor Moy wrote:Previous thread about this from Feb 2016 :
https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/newswor ... t7791.html
BKL was right in that thread, this is one incredibly ugly building. If you want to make a statement with a tall building, at least make it slender and sexy. This one looks like it was designed by a 6yo with some lego blocks.
local companies cant produce slender sexy buildings, HELL... they cant even make a right angle on a straight wall
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bolueeleh wrote: HELL... they cant even make a right angle on a straight wall
Yep. My wall mounted TV is on an angle. (the install guy told me it's because the ceiling isn't square %) )
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"And their wages will boost the incomes of the local poor"

That's one hell of an optimist view of the trickle down effect. The poorly paid will boost the incomes of the unpaid.
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bolueeleh wrote: HELL... they cant even make a right angle on a straight wall
Yep. My wall mounted TV is on an angle. (the install guy told me it's because the ceiling isn't square %) )

It probably does not look straight because of the curvature of the earth. Or maybe you belong to the '' Flat Earth Society ''.
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Listen, none of my walls are straight - in Cambodia and elsewhere. But that doesn't pose a problem since I'm not in a 133 storey skyscraper.
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frank lee bent wrote:all the big projects use builders from China. i think the locals do not have the skills.
plus, the money and engineering comes from China, so how could they communicate with local workers?
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Exactly. Other than noodle vendors, minor suppliers & a translator or two there will be very, very few locals employed. Can not blame them. Most of the $ earned will return to PRC.

I was at SHV port cruising around & was impressed that the Chin company rebuilding the port were all wearing yellow hard hats, orange safety vests & SHOES! Not one was on his cellphone, sitting around or in a hammock. Absolutely amazing!

Lets all help design the new flag for Chinbodia.
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I only want the money ,Investors loose at this Projekt,enough for drinking and f****** the next 100 years
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Some readers here were in PP when the truly hideous building - which looks like a glass boot with a glass box perched on the foot - was being built.

Well, did that lengthy period of construction improve the lot of the construction workers and noodle-sellers or not?
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mammothboy2 wrote:Some readers here were in PP when the truly hideous building - which looks like a glass boot with a glass box perched on the foot - was being built.

Well, did that lengthy period of construction improve the lot of the construction workers and noodle-sellers or not?
Can't answer your question but I quite like that building. At least someone made an effort to come up with something unique, unlike the proposal being discussed.
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