[First time to Meta-House? All films are free. ]
Dear Meta House Friends!
As always we would like to inform you about our programs
featuring great documentaries/feature films from Cambodia.
This week at Meta House you can watch exciting works
by the old and young generation of Cambodian filmmakers.
On-going is the art exhibition TRANSFORMATION with Khmer and US artists.
TUES, [...]
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The Psar Thmei (New Market/Central Market) just before noon Sunday - Election Day in Cambodia. The Market itself was designed in 1937 to resemble a Babylonian ziggurat, and I was happy to get a shot of the structure in daylight. Today there’s just a skeleton crew.
Without giving it much thought, I’d stepped out to do [...]
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Posted in architecture, urbanization on Feb 19th, 2008
Aside from the Royal Palace and Independence Monument, it looks like everywhere else in Phnom Penh may become… residential! Click for the large version of this widely-published advertisement:
Note the depiction of the intersection of Monivong and Sihanouk boulevards, compared to the present day. Wow. (The fine print dutifully notes this is just a promotional mockup, [...]
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