Skyscraper poised to replace iconic Hotel Cambodiana
9 February 2018
Plans have been floated for an enormous skyscraper, which reports suggest could reach over half a kilometre into the sky, to replace the iconic Hotel Cambodiana at the confluence of the Tonle Sap and Mekong rivers in Phnom Penh.

Seng Lot, spokesman of the Ministry of Land Management, told The Post last week that local conglomerate Royal Group has submitted a proposal to demolish the 239-room landmark hotel and build a 600-metre-tall skyscraper in its place.

“It’s just a plan for now... the company, Royal Group, asked for authorisation for this project,” he said. “The Hotel Cambodiana will be destroyed, and [the company] will build a new [600-metre-tall] building there.”

Royal Group, which purchased the property in 2005, has not announced the project and did not respond to phone calls.

Contacted this week, Lot declined to provide further details on the planned skyscraper but confirmed that the proposal calls for a building 600 metres in height. That would make it the fourth-tallest building in the world after the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, Shanghai Tower in China and the Abraj Al-Bayt Clock Tower in Saudi Arabia.

It would also rise above the spires of the TBR Twin Tower World Trade Centre, a planned 133-storey building set to occupy the former site of Dream Land amusement park just 200 metres south of the Hotel Cambodiana. The twin tower skyscraper, a project of Thai Boon Roong and Chinese contractor Sun Kian Ip Group, is slated to top out at 560 metres. Construction has yet to begin on the $2.7 billion mixed-purpose complex.

Both towers would appear to flout long-standing restrictions on building height that apply to buildings constructed within 500 metres of the Royal Palace or Independence Monument, and within 50 metres of the river bank.
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I'd b completely amazed if this ever happened, same as the other proposed skyscraper they announced year or 2 ago

jaynewcastle wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:36 pm I'd b completely amazed if this ever happened, same as the other proposed skyscraper they announced year or 2 ago

You mean this one ?

It would also rise above the spires of the TBR Twin Tower World Trade Centre, a planned 133-storey building set to occupy the former site of Dream Land amusement park just 200 metres south of the Hotel Cambodiana. The twin tower skyscraper, a project of Thai Boon Roong and Chinese contractor Sun Kian Ip Group, is slated to top out at 560 metres. Construction has yet to begin on the $2.7 billion mixed-purpose complex.

If there is ever an earth quake in this country, nearly all the new buildings will be laying flat on the ground !

Not sure why so many believe higher is better.

May God have mercy with those living in a 600 m high tower build [edit] built [/edit] according to Cambodian building regulations.......

Arget wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:05 pm AND they are going to build it on reclaimed land a very short distance from the river...................

Don't worry the foundation will be sitting on solid rock,,,,,,, in China

The idiots at that ministry can't even plan adequate parking at their own office, it's always double-parked there.
They shouldn't be let loose planning for anything above tree-height, let alone a world-ranking skyscraper.

We desperately need another few thousand apartments no one wants and double the price of Bangkok, and some high end retail everyone gawps at and nobody buys. there are a finite number fo Chinese to buy all this crap and they have all moved to shanghaiville, kampot and now kep. Its all just money laundering and the Chinese will move on and leave the mess for someone else to sort out. I feel really sorry for the Khmer who bought apartments and now cannot rent them out. A few blocks in the right place at the right price are doing ok but the rest are empty. This bubble is going to coming crashing down soon