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 them going to films at The Flicks without taking a beer or popcorns as the $4 ticket fare accounted for half the [...]
Meet The Man Who’s Life Passion Is Wooden Houses
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 Sokol. Mr. Collins, as well know to the Khmer culture community, wrote splendidly on the subject of Khmer architecture and [...]
Kingdom’s 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 cottage in the style shown below, even electricity did not undo the heat. Modern designed, large windows, clean-cut lines, all [...]
How to Build A Chinese Country House in The Old Fashioned Way
My great-uncle, a Chinese man of great old fashion in his eighty’s, has recently decided he would like to kick off building a house to the amusement of his father, my great grand-father. Of course the old ancestor passed away ages ago, in fact, I have not had the pleasure of meeting him, however, time [...]
The ‘Manchu Style’ within The Campuses of Jilin University
The Manchu Empire was a short-lived (1932-1945) Japanese protectorate in Northeast China before and during the 2nd World War, having its capital in Changchun, then renamed as Xinjing, and Puyi as its emperor. Changchun is now the provincial capital city in Jilin and home to the enormously large national Jilin University. Japan in the first [...]
The Story of Snowbell @ The Bridge
It all started when three friends, Ming, Haijun and Ray, pottering around the crowded streets of Phnom Penh, in one of the cooler evenings of early 2018, saw this: The three friends, Sorry, this might be more business-like, The three friends were impressed by the imposing mass of the giant building and [...]
Snowbell @ The Bridge concept drawings
Kitchen & Bar Area
Kitchen layout, partial; L*W*H 7m*3m*2.8m Bar 5m*2.4m*1.4m Updated Jan. 17, 2017, bar half-realised:
Kampot Prison
Deserted French house
Country house, Koh Dach island, outskirts Phnom Penh. It's evident that the island could have been a fashionable location for a country home for some fashionable French family of Phnom Penh. However, the house is beyond repair today and its surroundings in utter desertion, its grounds rich in grass and only to be grazed by [...]
