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The Vann Molyvann House is a landmark of the city of Phnom Penh [1] built in 1966 by Khmer architect Vann Molyvann as his private house and architecture office. It has been dubbed as the "Cambodian Taliesin" [2] and praised as a "testimony to the unique ability of Southeast Asia's greatest living architect to fuse European modernism with traditional Khmer design in an apparently seamless style."
Vann Molyvann [1] (Khmer: វណ្ណ ម៉ូលីវណ្ណ; 23 November 1926 – 28 September 2017) was a Cambodian architect and urban planner. Molyvann is best known as pioneering the style known as New Khmer Architecture , which combined modernism and Khmer tradition , and accounted for the country's unique environment and irrigation ...
The White Building was designed to house moderate-income tenants, and was adopted by many artists who found the innovative design appealing. With the nearby Grey Building, designed by Vann Molyvann , it was initially built for athletes in the 1964 GANEFO (Games of the non-aligned forces) international sports event.
The Preah Suramarit National Theatre or the Bassac Theatre was the former national theatre of Cambodia in the capital Phnom Penh. [1]Designed by chief national architect Vann Molyvann in 1966, it opened in 1968 as the Grand Théâtre Preah Bat Norodom Suramarit (aka Mohorsrop Theatre). [1]
Vann Molyvann House This page was last edited on 1 February 2020, at 06:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Molyvann created landmark buildings such as the Preah Suramarit National Theatre or the Vann Molyvann House. Other architects helped construct the newly founded Royal Khmer University , the Institute of Foreign Languages, and the National Sports Centre.
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