Iconic White Building Soon to Disappear

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Aug 22, 2017 6:34 pm

Phnom Penh:
Poline, one of the most iconic buildings in Phnom Penh soon will vanish leaving its name in the history of old constructions. The building was built sin 1962 and still standing tall to these days for 60 years. Located on Preah Sothearos Blvd. Sangkat Tonle Basak, Khan Chamkar Mon.
Since its conflicts between the residents lived there and the government, Poline was agreed to be brought down for a new modern complex building. There were 493 families had lived in that building complex until the investment from Japan, Arakawa would cost $14 00 per square metre. The building will be remembered in the history of Cambodia's architectures.

https://kohsantepheapdaily.com.kh/article/169152.html

jobsworth6912 · Post by **jobsworth6912** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:21 pm

isn't that the block of flats called the bodeng which i think means building in khmer.
the bodeng used to be a hive of activity with people living on top of one another and businesses likewise.
that new brick triangular building opposite, which reminds me of times square in new york, used to be a patch of grass.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:11 pm

jobsworth6912 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:21 pm isn't that the block of flats called the bodeng which i think means building in khmer.

It was, it's completely flattened now. I think the name "bodeng" was just a local bastardization of the English "building".

Post by **Username Taken** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:47 pm

While we're talking about that area . . .

I was coming past the Oz embassy yesterday and thinking 'remember when the embassy first opened here, it seemed quite remote and isolated'. I'm sure they didn't foresee the towering buildings that are their neighbors now.

skyfalcon · Post by **skyfalcon** » Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:56 pm

jobsworth6912 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:21 pm that new brick triangular building opposite, which reminds me of times square in new york, used to be a patch of grass.

you're probably thinking of flatiron in ny. that's what i always think of, and i wondered if it was inspired by it. you know when that triangle building was built?

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:31 am

Username Taken wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 9:47 pm While we're talking about that area . . .

I was coming past the Oz embassy yesterday and thinking 'remember when the embassy first opened here, it seemed quite remote and isolated'. I'm sure they didn't foresee the towering buildings that are their neighbors now.

Yea, talk about tight security getting into the embassy, when one could almost drop in to the place,,,, from the top of that tower building. Much unlike the USA embassy.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:55 am

skyfalcon wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:56 pm
jobsworth6912 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:21 pm that new brick triangular building opposite, which reminds me of times square in new york, used to be a patch of grass.
you're probably thinking of flatiron in ny. that's what i always think of, and i wondered if it was inspired by it. you know when that triangle building was built?

Around 2006.

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