Rear view of the library
Work starts on Pyle Architects’ Cambodia library
22 April, 2010
By Anna Winston
BDonline.co.uk
Construction work is underway on Pyle Architects’ £1.3 million library for the Royal University of Phnom Penh.
The 2,800sq m Hun Sen library extension, named after Cambodia’s prime minister, has been developed by the London practice’s office in Phnom Penh headed by practice founder Geoff Pyle.
The extension will more than double the size of the existing library building, which was built in the early 1990s, and create a new entrance.
Large double-glazed openings in the building will create spaces with clear views of the landscape while withstanding Cambodia’s seasonal weather extremes.
Areas of louvres provide permanent natural ventilation, and the north and south elevations feature heavy shading to deal with strong solar gain.
Funding for the scheme has been provided by a grant from the World Bank as part of the Cambodia Education Sector Support Project.
But the grant does not cover the building’s operating costs, so it has been designed to require minimal electrical services, with ramps replacing lifts and selective air conditioning. Air from the undercroft of the building will be used to help cool internal spaces.
It is due for completion in early 2011.
Pyle has also set up an organisation with local students and architects to provide tours of Cambodia’s 1960s architecture. For more information visit http://www.ka-tours.org/
The 2,800sq m Hun Sen library extension, named after Cambodia’s prime minister, has been developed by the London practice’s office in Phnom Penh headed by practice founder Geoff Pyle.
The extension will more than double the size of the existing library building, which was built in the early 1990s, and create a new entrance.
Large double-glazed openings in the building will create spaces with clear views of the landscape while withstanding Cambodia’s seasonal weather extremes.
Areas of louvres provide permanent natural ventilation, and the north and south elevations feature heavy shading to deal with strong solar gain.
Funding for the scheme has been provided by a grant from the World Bank as part of the Cambodia Education Sector Support Project.
But the grant does not cover the building’s operating costs, so it has been designed to require minimal electrical services, with ramps replacing lifts and selective air conditioning. Air from the undercroft of the building will be used to help cool internal spaces.
It is due for completion in early 2011.
Pyle has also set up an organisation with local students and architects to provide tours of Cambodia’s 1960s architecture. For more information visit http://www.ka-tours.org/
Everything belongs to an uneducated peasant Ah Kvak Hun Sen. I just designed my own paper toilet with ah Kvak's pictures all over my paper toilet. His faces are sticked with my shit everytime I wipe my azz.
ReplyDeleteAh Kwak Kbot Cheat think he is a living god. This motherfucker don't know any better. Khmer people are so fucking so stupid to vote for him and keep him in power. Therefore, Khmer citizens in general are stupider then Hun Xen.
ReplyDeleteOpen your eye, not that one,
ReplyDeleteanother one, you see now,
we are in 2010,
personality worship will never work anymore,
stop to be crazy Hun Sen followers, you repeat what were Khiev Samphan did, follow blindly a crazy man, instead of being hero he's in jail.
World Bank must investigate this! Because this is not Hun Sen money.
ReplyDeleteFrom cutting the trees Hun Sen profits millions even billions of $$$$.
Where those money goes?
Ordinary Khmer can't event cut down the tree to have a real huts never mind the real house.
Khmer Rural,
the naming is the traditional thing, really. stop whining already! yes, it's just a traditional thing, doesn't mean hun sen owns it. same with sihanoukville, doesn't mean sihanouk owns that city, it's just a traditional thing. don't forget the sam rainsy party, it's was name for its founder, sam rainsy, but doesn't mean sam rainsy owns it, etc, etc... it could've have anyone, you know. me personal, i don't care about naming, it the library that is most important to khmer students for they have a place to go borrow books and learn and study, etc..., you know! god bless cambodia.
ReplyDelete12:16Am shihanouk was a king! Yes he own the country and all the subjects!!!!!
ReplyDelete12:16AM, you foo! so coup detar is a traditional too.
ReplyDeletewell, make a law about it, if you're not happy for a place or a building to be named using a person. no law, no complain, ok! it's not illegal and has no case in court for naming like this, ok! wake up already, king, ordinary citizens etc is the same in the computer age, ok! this is not the dark age or the stone age anymore! it's just a name, big deal. watch your language how your label others like uneducated, their mediocre background or beginning, etc is irrelevant in this changing world, really. i can be bornt into a dirt poor family, but if is received a good education, am strike th lottery, etc, then my life completely changed, so it is same concept here in the case of hun sen. so stop labeling him from peasant family, or former KR soldier, or blinded, by making fun of his injury, etc... if you yourself are educated, then you know it is wrong to label or discriminate against a person based on his/her background, race, sexual orientation, etc... the only discrimination is against ignorance only, ok! no more ignorant is allowed in cambodia gov't! wake up, people!
ReplyDeleteWell let him put whatever names he wants. When he is no longer ruling Cambodia all these names will be renamed or changed.
ReplyDeleteLook at Saddam Hussein, he named almost everything his name. When he no longer the ruler they changed them all.
Khmer-Iraq,
hey don't forget the blog is accessable throughout the world, so, your tone that show ignorance like labeling person's background and politically motivated attack etc doesn't count here!
ReplyDeleteIt really gets out of control with this naming or renaming of public institutions with the Hun family name. It's everywhere you look you'll see Hun Sen's this and Bun rany Hun Sen's that... I don't mind if they use their own money to build those places and put their names on them but; and old high scholl that I used to attend now has Bun Rany Hun Sen's name in there too. What do these people really do for the public education of the country, beside keeping teachers' salary ridiculously low so they have to get a second job to support their family and leave poor students out in the cold.
ReplyDeleteCome on, enough is enough! Have some shame!
Ye oversea folks ain't no what a simple mind of the miserable Khmers over der think that everything in Srok Khmer is publicly and privately belonged to Hun's family
ReplyDeletei love this library to the khmer people. thank you for building library in my country for my people to study so they can have a brighter future. god bless cambodia.
ReplyDelete12:45am, that's fair complain, however most aren't! again, it's just a traditional thing, ok; make a law about it, ok! if no law, no complain, ok!
ReplyDeleteSADDAM HUN SEN, SOK AN, KHIEV KANARITH, AND THE REST OF HUN SEN'S GANGS WILL GO TO HELL ONE BY ONE IN THESE DAYS. TIME WILL TELL. THEY ALL THE KILLERS AND THE MURDER OF THE INNOCENT PEOPLES. HOK LUNDY IS WAITING FOR THEM NOW IN HELL.
ReplyDeleteDo not care much about the name, but care about how cambodians, the next generations in particular, can benefit from such a good sources of knowledge...
ReplyDeleteDo not think too much on the brandname of the product (ex: blue shark, or Adidas), just care about quality! with the same products,and the same quality, but with different marks. what do u choose?
Right intention, of course.
ReplyDeleteIs it from one's right mind?
Or just a political stage,or political scam?
At some stage,cambodians have to draw a line between individual interest and public interest.
When these mixed up, thus conflict of interests displayed.
Neang SA
Still sounds better than "Heng Xoy Library Extension"
ReplyDelete12:53PM! there no law about complaining! an cursing! So we just say what ah Kwack Hun Xen is doing are imoral and stupid motherfucker!
ReplyDeleteThat Ok no law about cursing ak Kwack motherfucker ah choymaray Hun Xen!
Is their law to let each other know about stupidity of ah Hun Xen and its CPP???? 12:53PM! Enjoy the commend, fool!
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
ខមដាក់ឈ្មោះឲ្យបានច្រើនទៅ ដល់ពេលស្លាប់ទៅ គេដូរចោលអស់វិញដដែល។
ReplyDeletepolitics is dirty words. when people talk politics, it usually silly to take side and not look at the larger picture of things. it seems like almost everyone are in politics, here; that's why we developed selective seeing, selective hearing, selective reading, selective everything now, etc... image if we care about everything everybody said here, we will be blinded by our own egotistical view. me personally, i only look at fair, sound or reasonable remarks or comments. all these are trash and i treat it such. you know what we do with trash, we burn or throw it away, really. thank you.
ReplyDeleteyes, too much politics blinded a person's good view. stop already!
ReplyDeleteWhat is politics 6:59AM?
ReplyDeleteBased on your reference I find it hard to understand it.
Do you mean that as for politics, the killing of 2.7 millions had to happened?
Have you ever lived in more civilised world,where the government tries so hard to keep their people alive? and healthy?.
Please DO not confuse people with power's games anymore, thank you.
Kaun Khmer
why foreigners are so interested in Khmer architecture of 1960s, while the current Cambodian have never cared of it? Instead they demolished score of buildings from that era replacing with new ones, like, the case of Council of Minister. The worse cases are Ecole Royal des beaux arts, Institut de polytechnique de Preah Kosomak and Russey Keo Vocational school are replaced with residential flat houses.
ReplyDeleteHunsen haters,
ReplyDeleteYour hatefulness is not helping.
Your foul language toward him is useless, because I doubt he reads comments posted on this blogs.
Don't let the naming of this library divert your gratefulness for having it!
9:47am, we show everyone that in the west, we care about preservation of old architectural landmarks, etc... hopefully, cambodia catches up; this is wonderful idea or concept of conservation and preservation of historic sites, etc... that's all! of course, it is good to build new ones as well as preserving old ones. i think renovation of old architecture is encouraged, however, they shouldn't be destroyed or demolished, you know! just like angkor temples, one day all beautiful architiecture in cambodia will be appreciated by the future generation of people. plus, it makes a good tourist attraction as well, really!
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