“This year is going to be very special,” says Phnom Penh native Rattanack Ath, or Nack, who leads the team organizing Pride Fest this year. “Pride started as a western concept, but we are tweaking it to focus on changing the hearts and souls of people not politics. We are trying to communicate to Cambodian people the way they know how.”
The demolition of the Scala Theatre, Dusit Thani Hotel and Siam Intercontinental Hotel had widespread media coverage. However, many people may not know that other important modern structures such as the old parliament building, Arkanmai at Suan Amporn and the Telephone Organization of Thailand building in Chidlom were also demolished. As time passes, more examples of modern architecture are gradually vanishing without the attention and knowledge of most people.
Some buildings just appear to be regular old houses or offices to most of the commuters passing by, but in the eyes of architecture lovers and foreign tourists, the buildings designed and erected immediately after the French colonial era are a fascinating piece of Cambodian history.
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