Khmer architecture

Where tourist attractions including the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh Market Pagoda Cambodia Friendship Monument House Museum - Vietnam Museum of Wat Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek killing fields on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.Palace building is one of the many buildings, located in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Palace hall was built by the king in 1866. Palace was removed again built by King Norodom.Wat Phnom Pagoda is a great historical importance, which is located in Phnom Penh. Built in 1373, the height of 27 meters, is the tallest pagoda of all pagodas in Phnom Penh. It was built by the Solidarity-led forces wealthy widow who is a nun to deposit 5 Buddha that was flowing flood brings a Kiensvay Porter at this Chaktomok.Techo balcony and statue Techo gold.Construction is Wat from oldest building built in 1373. The most important tourist attraction is the Royal Palace, a temple of glass and Museum was built during the French colonial era in the late 19th century in the ancient Khmer style and concentrated many Khmer artifacts. Monument, although since the 1950s, it was built in a traditional Khmer style.MeruThe French colonial masters from the 19th century to the 1940s, also left their signs with various colonial villas France Boulevard Temple and the Art Deco Central Market. The landmark of colonial Raffles Hotel Le Royal.Began with independence from the French in the 1950s and continued until the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, suffered a massive growth as the capital city of the newly independent country. King Sihanouk had cared to show a new style of architecture, and thereby make a strong process of nation building. The new golden age of architecture and ended along with other projects and young Khmer architects often educated in France, which had the opportunity to design and build. This new movement is called the new Khmer architecture and are often characterized by the dissolution of Bauhaus, European post-modern architecture and ancient elements from Angkor. The most prominent architect, Vann - Vann, who was appointed president by the architects King in 1956. Molyvann created landmark buildings such as Preah Suramarit National Theatre and the Cabinet building. Other architects have helped build the Royal University to build a new Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and the National Sports Center. Along with the growth of the middle and upper level of entrepreneurship, new suburbs were built in the 1950s and 60s.Although building those remaining Khmer Rouge period and the civil war, yet today they are under threat due to the development of economic and financial speculation. [Citation needed] villas and gardens from that era are being destroyed and redeveloped to create a venue for big structures. The landmark National Theatre, Molyvann was ripped down in 2008. [31] A movement is rising in the country, to preserving the modernist heritage. Sometimes old mansion has been converted into boutique hotels such as pillows Bang Chatt.Monuments and memorials to the genocide during the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s, the museum's Tuol Sleng Genocide (a former high school used as a concentration camp) and on the outskirts of the city Ek Genocide Center. Vietnam and Cambodia Friendship Monument was commissioned by the Vietnamese communists as a symbol of friendship Khmer-Vietnamese during the 1970s, following the liberation of Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge regime.