View of Phnom Penh from Olympics stadium

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View of Phnom Penh from Olympics stadium

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These pictures reminds me about my childhood playing football around the stadium and on that grass once when my high school went to final. Very good photos!

Many events have been held in this stadium, so it's about time to add seatings !! :)

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^^ what seating? What are you talking about..... all i see is the same old stadium with no seat.....

^^ Adding seats !! Like this .. :)

http://www.preferred-seating.com/images/KearnsHighSchoolStadiumSeating.jpg

It will be expensive :-)

You may need around 50,000 of them.

Can we imagine there seat full of people clapping for the international sport events there? :-):-)

I don't think the stadium can fit 50,000 seats ..

I don't think the stadium can fit 50,000 seats ..


I am not sure if it is right, but the following site says so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_National_Olympic_Stadium

Maybe, it can seat somewhere from 40,000 to 50,000.

I am not sure if it is right, but the following site says so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_National_Olympic_Stadium

Maybe, it can seat somewhere from 40,000 to 50,000.

I think that info is wrong because the largest stadium in Singapore has 50000 seats , the largest stadium in VN has 40000 seats and the largest in Thailand has 60000 seats .

I think that info is wrong because the largest stadium in Singapore has 50000 seats , the largest stadium in VN has 40000 seats and the largest in Thailand has 60000 seats .

When the stadium was built in the early 60s, it was one of the largest in Asia. Currently this stadium is the 6th largest stadium in SE Asia. The largest ones are in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_stadiums_by_capacity

I think if they put seats in, the capacity of the stadium will decrease a great deal.

There was a company a while back that wanted to renovate this stadium but the plan didn't go through because another stadium was set to be built on the out skirts of Phnom Penh to replace Olympic Stadium, but that didn't go through either.

9 pic, it take 20 years to the same with Hanoi now

9 pic, it take 20 years to the same with Hanoi now

^^ Your point is........................!!! This ain't VN! When we do things we make sure it is right! Your Hanoi looks boring! :lol::lol:

I think if they put seats in, the capacity of the stadium will decrease a great deal.

Truth !!

I think that info is wrong because the largest stadium in Singapore has 50000 seats , the largest stadium in VN has 40000 seats and the largest in Thailand has 60000 seats .

So, it does not mean Cambodia could not build 50000 seats stadium. It was built in the 60s, and those stadiums that you mentioned were built maybe later. Vietnam, in the 80s, did not even have this kind of stadium.

Anyway, I have checked with my dad, and he told me that when it was built it was design for 50000. Do you see the two big spaces between the grand stand and the rest of the seating area? Those space can be used to put a removable seatings. So, in total it can seat 50000. If you don't believe, maybe we can ask the man who design it. Can anybody in Cambodia try to ask him?

^^ Adding seats !! Like this .. :)

http://www.preferred-seating.com/images/KearnsHighSchoolStadiumSeating.jpg

Now, i get it.... but 50,000 seats thats a lots of seats....LOL, who going to pay for it?

So, it does not mean Cambodia could not build 50000 seats stadium. It was built in the 60s, and those stadiums that you mentioned were built maybe later. Vietnam, in the 80s, did not even have this kind of stadium.

Anyway, I have checked with my dad, and he told me that when it was built it was design for 50000. Do you see the two big spaces between the grand stand and the rest of the seating area? Those space can be used to put a removable seatings. So, in total it can seat 50000. If you don't believe, maybe we can ask the man who design it. Can anybody in Cambodia try to ask him?

I think he living in America right now.... i remember some of the old post about him....if i'm not mistaken he living in Virginia, USA

Now, i get it.... but 50,000 seats thats a lots of seats....LOL, who going to pay for it?

China will as they usually do, this stadium was funded by China so any extra things that will happen you know who to turn to

China will as they usually do, this stadium was funded by China so any extra things that will happen you know who to turn to

I heard that Funcipeac sold the stadium to Taiwanese company already.

What????? :badnews:

I heard that Funcipeac sold the stadium to Taiwanese company already.

I thought only the land beside the stadium were sold to Taiwanese investors. There was a plan to build a shopping center on the plot before the financial crisis.

I thought only the land beside the stadium were sold to Taiwanese investors. There was a plan to build a shopping center on the plot before the financial crisis.

The land surrounding the stadium was giving to Taiwanese company in an exchange for renovation of the stadium. The stadium was renovated by Taiwanese company a few years, but it looks like nothing ever happen !

^^ ok, thanks for your clarification. I think it is about time to renovate the stadium and get ready for 2015 SEAGames.

If puts seats, if will look more nice.

I am not sure if it is right, but the following site says so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_National_Olympic_Stadium

Maybe, it can seat somewhere from 40,000 to 50,000.

It may fit 50,000 people, but non of those gets a seat, if you sit very tightly on those concrete steps, you probably can fit 50% more then if you put seats in.

Or perhaps most of them don't even get to sit, which can boost capacity by at least 100%.

^^ ok, thanks for your clarification. I think it is about time to renovate the stadium and get ready for 2015 SEAGames.

First, we got to work out how to move 50,000 peoples, the traffics around the stadium is seriously gridlocked most of the day.

Yes, and the traffic is getting even worse with the ''City Mall'' right next to the stadium :nuts:

I don't understand why this project is approved by the government ..

I have found an article about the man who built it and the stadium itself. Read here

http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/503061?all=yes

Here it is

Edifice Complex

by Chris Cox | Published October 2010 | See more Condé Nast Traveler articles ›
Concierge.com's Insider Guide:


Phnom Penh's modern architectural masterpieces survived the Khmer Rouge regime but are now being bulldozed by the Cambodian government in the name of progress. Chris Cox reports on what's at stake and the battle to save those that remain

Like almost every other major city in Southeast Asia, Phnom Penh is filled with Buddhist temples and colonial-era villas. Then there are the unlikely International Style structures, scores of them, which imbue Cambodia's capital with one of the world's finest post-colonial cityscapes—mid-century modern monuments that survived the Khmer Rouge regime only to be endangered now by full-throttle development.

"They stand out in the city so strongly, they are such a surprise, and they're just so good," says Bill Greaves, a New York architect who was stunned by the Le Corbusier-*inspired buildings he encountered during a 2004 sketching trip. "It's concrete without fear."

To the untrained eye, buildings such as the Chaktomuk Conference Hall might seem nothing more than concrete curiosities. To the Yale-trained Greaves, however, they're the perfect example of "critical realism," the melding of International aesthetics and indigenous culture and climate.

On a sunny Sunday morning at the tail end of the monsoon season, Greaves and I join Khmer Architecture Tours, also known as KA Tours, a non-profit that conducts walking and cyclo excursions to Phnom Penh's heritage buildings. We muster outside Chaktomuk, built in 1961 to house the Sixth Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists and inspired by the fan-like shape of a palm leaf.

With clean, angular lines, raised elevations, and high-pitched double roofs, this masterpiece of New Khmer Architecture was designed by Vann Molyvann, the kingdom's most renowned urban planner. A graduate of France's esteemed École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Molyvann returned to Cambodia in 1956, when Prince Norodom Sihanouk gave him carte blanche to design scores of public buildings. Eschewing neoclassical composition, Sihanouk's architectural aesthetic mirrored the postwar mood of nations as diverse as India, Brazil, and Eritrea, which recast their identities with futuristically shaped rebar and cement.

It was a heady, optimistic time in newly independent Cambodia. While still in his 30s, Molyvann supervised the design and construction of entire new towns, like the port of Sihanoukville; the riverfront Bassac development that included Chaktomuk, the National Theatre, and the Independence Monument, as well as the 100-acre National Sports Complex, built for the aborted 1963 Southeast Asian Games and distinguished by the astounding umbrella-like roof canopy of its Indoor Stadium. "Try to get a structural engineer to do those cantilevers today," says Greaves. "It would be extremely difficult."

Decades before their vogue, Molyvann's buildings were notable for ingenious "green" features: double roofs, indirect lighting, and cross ventilation. At the Indoor Stadium, he surrounded the seating areas with stylish pools to collect rainy-season runoff; the water was used for evaporative cooling in the dry season. In another elegant solution to tropical conditions, he honeycombed the grandstand walls with holes, creating a patterned brise-soleil (sun baffle) to allow for maximum airflow and natural, diffused light.

The architectural commissions flowed until 1970, when Sihanouk was deposed in a wartime coup. Molyvann departed Cambodia the following year, and his 80,000-seat outdoor stadium soon became a landing zone for the besieged government's helicopter gunships. In 1975, Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, who forced the entire population from the once-shining city.

The National Sports Complex, the finest in Southeast Asia, was abandoned. An Olympic-standard water-sports complex overlooking the confluence of the Mekong and Bassac rivers became a Khmer Rouge prison. The guerrillas also completely destroyed Molyvann's architectural drawings and records.

"It was extremely painful for me to come back and see what happened," says the architect, now 83, who returned to Phnom Penh in 1991 and still lives there with his Swiss wife, Trudy, in a futuristic-looking house he designed and built in the mid-1960s.

If Molyvann's return proved painful, conservationists say that what has since transpired is deplorable. After shepherding Angkor's inscription onto UNESCO's World Heritage List and establishing the Apsara Authority to safeguard the temple complex, he was removed as executive director in 2001 for being too preservation-minded. Uncontrolled development has since swept across Siem Reap, the once sleepy provincial gateway to Angkor. The same pro-business forces have struck Phnom Penh, where downtown parcels can fetch more than $92 per square foot and shady land deals have meant the sell-off of state property and the largest forced evictions since the Pol Pot era.

"There's a great drive to develop the city," says Greaves, "and that drive has overtaken every other concern—including urban planning and any sense of preserving what they've got."

Molyvann keeps a scrapbook of his lost creations: the Naga Monument, torn down in 2009 during construction of a new Bassac River bridge; the Council of Ministers, which was razed a year earlier; and one of his masterpieces, the ship-shaped National Theatre (the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts had sold the property, which was damaged in a 1994 fire, to a Cambodian cell-phone tycoon with the proviso that it be repaired; instead, it was demolished in the spring of 2008). Molyvann admits that when he takes his early-morning constitutional along the Mekong, he worries he'll encounter another empty lot where one of his buildings once stood. "Neither time nor the Khmer Rouge destroyed the National Theatre," he says quietly. "It took two years of speculation on land."

From Chaktomuk, the KA walking tour heads south, passing the theater site—now an empty lot surrounded by a blue metal fence—and another Molyvann project, a smart-looking apartment block with indented terraces that developers entombed in concrete and remade into a dreary, office-filled monolith.

"Architects aren't meant to outlive their buildings," says Greaves. "It's a national tragedy and it's a personal tragedy."

It was the sudden destruction of the National Theatre that prompted Greaves to leave his New York job, move to Phnom Penh, and start the Vann Molyvann Project, an effort to document the architect's buildings in precise technical drawings before they vanish.

Geoff Pyle, a London-based architect who started KA Tours—to raise public awareness of the heritage buildings and to persuade owners that these structures have an intrinsic tourism value—believes that the region operates without regard for preserving the architectural aesthetic. From Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok to Shanghai, developer-driven high-rise office towers have replaced smaller, historic structures.

"In Asia, there's a sense that we don't really need the old stuff—it's just old," says Pyle. "We can take it down and build something better—because it'll be newer. There's a huge cultural gap, which Westerners struggle to understand."

Molyvann is most concerned about his "imperiled" national stadium. Already, several of the enormous pools—inspired by the reservoirs that Angkor's builders dug for water management—have been filled and buried beneath new shophouses. Greaves notes that the complex is intensively used for a variety of events, from pickup soccer matches and outdoor aerobics to concerts (Leonard Cohen is booked to play the Indoor Stadium on November 27). "Its viability as a living public space is almost certainly the strongest argument for its preservation," Greaves observes.

But it is the so-called White Building, which Molyvann also had a hand in designing, that tops the hit list. The walk concludes at the five-story, 1,115-foot-long structure, built in the early 1960s as low-cost housing for artists. It now resembles a slum: a teeming anthill of small shops, garbage-strewn stairwells, and 468 dank apartments that are home to an estimated 3,000 people.

We climb open staircases to the topmost floor, where Cambodia Living Arts, a local non-profit, uses a two-room apartment as a studio. While a small Khmer orchestra plays on the balcony, a dozen classical dancers, many of them building residents, perform for the visitors.

But the dilapidated headquarters of this gracious troupe may be short-lived. An adjacent squatter community, Dey Krohom, was bulldozed in January 2009; many locals expect a similarly unmerciful fate. Says one dancer: "The situation is hopeless. This building will disappear, and our members will go away."

In Phnom Penh's contest between real-estate speculation and idealistic ambitions about art, architecture, and national identity, real estate appears to be winning. "I'm not without hope," Pyle says. "But see it now, while you still can."

Non-profit Khmer Architecture Tours leads monthly guided walking and cyclo trips that take in Phnom Penh's colonial and New Khmer Architecture (for information, go to ka-tours.org).

This is a great article. Thanks Asian !

^^Thanks for sharing....

I have just read in the Chinese Paper, the stalls in the north eastern boundaries of the Stadium, is ordered to move within 15 days so government can do new development., if they don't move, the stalls will be demolished with no compensations.

Sounds like something start to happen in the redevelopment of the stadium.

Yeah because those stall located on Stadium land. Good that we will redevelop stadium. And we need more modern.

yea..good news..:)

If I'm not mistaken.. the 2015 SEAgame was rejected by one of the leader of sport in Cambodia, he said we are not yet ready to do this kind of big game we are short of....shit!

And the SEAgame will be held in Philippine instead of Cambodia.

Yeah sure. Coz he think that we spend much money on that. And we dont have ability to host it yet. :-(

But if our government host this SEAgame in our country sure many hotel will be build, from now to 2015 is ok enough time to build even high rise hotel.

But :-(

Yeah sure. Coz he think that we spend much money on that. And we dont have ability to host it yet. :-(

Money I think can if our government want ...from rich country... then pay them back, because we using that money for developing our country.

And I think human resource... If we have not enough I think we can ask them for help.

This SEAgame is the only time for Cambodian.....

Even Lao also did it in the previose SEAgame.

So Cambodia didn't host this SEAGame?.... How disappointed....:(

Sad :(. But we need to prepare for the next SEA game :)

When will be our next? :-(

As I said before, if Cambodia want to host the SEAgames. I am sure other countries will let Cambodia to host first

But if our government host this SEAgame in our country sure many hotel will be build, from now to 2015 is ok enough time to build even high rise hotel.

But :-(

Hosting a international event requires a lot more then hotels.

To solve Phnom Penh traffic congestion problems will take a lot more then 5 years.

We probably have better luck to aim at 2019 game in Sihanoukville.

I think the country will host its first SEAGame in the ''capital'' city, Phnom Penh has the best infrastructure out of all the cities in Cambodia

The infrastructure is poor in Sihanoukville, and it is not ideal to build all the stadiums first in Sihanoukville.

so Cambodia will build a new stadium?..where? The new stadium will be for SEAGame right?

I think the country will host its first SEAGame in the ''capital'' city, Phnom Penh has the best infrastructure out of all the cities in Cambodia

The infrastructure is poor in Sihanoukville, and it is not ideal to build all the stadiums first in Sihanoukville.

I don't know much about SEA Games, what type of infrastructure is require? Exactly what has Phnom Penh built that doesn't need an major upgrade. As well as the supporting transporting infrastructure.

I am not very sure if is ideal to put a major sporting event here in Phnom Penh, in its existing state.

I know there is very much nothing in Sihanoukville, it is a coastal town very much unknown internationally. Putting a major event there has its good side, it can seriously stimulate demand, and gives you an chance (or perhaps an excuse) to promote it.

Infrastructure required:

- Aquatic Centre (Diving, Swimming, Water Polo)
- Gymnasium
- Volleyball court
- Archery Field
- Shooting range
- Basketball Court
- Badminton Court
- Tennis Courts
- Petanque court
- Venue for Boxing
- Venue for Table Tennis
- Venue for Taekwondo
- Venue for Wrestling
- Venue for Judo
- Venue for Karate
- Venue for Liards and Snooker
- Venue for Pencak Silat
- Venue for Sepak takraw
- Venue for Wushu
- Venue for weightlifting
- Venue for Shuttlecock
- Reservoir (used for Canoe-Kayak, Rowing, Traditional Boat Race)
- Velodrome
- Football Stadium (with seat capacity of 20k+): used for Opening and Closing Ceremony, Athletics, Football
- Atheletic Village - accomodate at least 5000 people
- 4 and 5 star hotels for all the government officials to stay during the game

and Public Transport System (for example: Bus)

Except the football stadium, all the above venues must be accompanied with seats for audiences.

^^ A lot of things to do and to organize :)

Here are some photos I took of the Olympic Stadium in 2002 and 2003.

Hope you enjoy them.

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can we considered the design of this stadium as brutalism??

After briefly read about meaning of Brutalist architecture, yeah, I guess it can be consider Brutalist.

the stadium looks great from outside but its inside view makes me disappointed. Are they going to rebuild this stadium to prepare for SEAGames?

it is very unlikely the SEAgame is going to be held there.

http://imagecache.soccerway.com/venues/600x450/4144.jpg

The largest stadium in Cambodia deserves a running track ..

The largest stadium in Cambodia deserves a running track ..

It is there. All it needs is an upgrade!

Yes, and oval running track :)

I always dreaming that they going to build the roof for the football field..if so i think alot of football fan will there to cheer...

Recently I watch the live football match from TVK at around 15:00h my got super hot at the concret sit... :-(

I always dreaming that they going to build the roof for the football field..if so i think alot of football fan will there to cheer...


Football is a outdoor sport. Maybe roof above the seat, roof for the field is silly.

Recently I watch the live football match from TVK at around 15:00h my got super hot at the concret sit... :-(

:lol: so true, outdoor stadium get so hot. To overcome the problem, bring a bottle of water and wet the concrete.

Don't worry, with Cambodian's heat, your bump will be dry before you left the stadium.

very odd to play soccer on a field with a lightpole in the middle.

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/3511/260620116192.jpg

What is the red fields originally used for?

very odd to play soccer on a field with a lightpole in the middle.

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/3511/260620116192.jpg


i played in this same field 12-13 yrs ago. Now it's still the same old red dirt!

very odd to play soccer on a field with a lightpole in the middle.

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/3511/260620116192.jpg

What is the red fields originally used for?

cant stop laughing. PP citizen should be proud of their most unique football field on the planet :lol:

i played in this same field 12-13 yrs ago. Now it's still the same old red dirt! Something never change. Ever run into the pole.

Remove the pole, or remove the football goals :nuts:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4406/olympicviewfromcitymall.jpg

Football is a outdoor sport. Maybe roof above the seat, roof for the field is silly.



:lol: so true, outdoor stadium get so hot. To overcome the problem, bring a bottle of water and wet the concrete.

Don't worry, with Cambodian's heat, your bump will be dry before you left the stadium.

Oh it's my bad...I mean only the roof for the seat is not the whole football field..^^

And the man talk live from TVK said everybody please come and cheer our national team, than I feel :nuts: come for what? :ohno: or come to do dry fish:lol:

i played in this same field 12-13 yrs ago. Now it's still the same old red dirt!

Me too, I till have some scar.... :ohno:

I was study at Bak Touk high school but since the school football field converted to Juliana Hotel...me and my friends always go to this stadium to played because if we play inside the school compound they (School manager or...) will withdraw our ball...:nuts:

That's why Cambodian teen always play football at the garden..etc..:bash:

I used to play on the very same field 10 years ago bring back a lot of memory.
Damn thinking of it i miss my old high school friend. :(

Is it true that the government going to sell this to the invesment?

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4406/olympicviewfromcitymall.jpg

I used to play soccer almost everywhere surround the staduim. The pole in the mildde was annoying n the red dirt ( sorry don't how to call) no the field was so slippery and it was so dusty as well...:lol: Thank for the photos... Miss playing soccer with my friends...

Is it true that the government going to sell this to the invesment?

where did you hear that from?

is probably a good idea, since the site is really too small to do any major sport event.

Me too, I till have some scar.... :ohno:

Yeah, I remembered picking off tiny stones from my knees !
I was study at Bak Touk high school
Lucky you studied close-by. I had to ride a bike from Santhor Mork.

National Olympic Stadium :ohno::ohno::ohno:

The largest stadium in Cambodia deserves a running track ..

It does have a running track now, I'm not sure whether it's just covered in people in that crowded shot, or if they just repaired it since then.

In recent months the National Olympic Committee has started building a new headquarters on the north and east edges of the stadium site, a lot of vendors had to be moved to make room for this development.

Here's a couple of pictures showing before and after citymall was built:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpnASsOvwI/AAAAAAAAAjg/txjJ-U9xDac/s1600/01-stad-2005.jpg
2005
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpm_g7HODI/AAAAAAAAAjY/CqTFzgZddQI/s1600/02-stad-2010.jpg
2010. The first picture is from: http://tommickx.wordpress.com/

Here's a couple of pictures showing before and after citymall was built:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpnASsOvwI/AAAAAAAAAjg/txjJ-U9xDac/s1600/01-stad-2005.jpg
2005
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpm_g7HODI/AAAAAAAAAjY/CqTFzgZddQI/s1600/02-stad-2010.jpg
2010. The first picture is from: http://tommickx.wordpress.com/

city Mall has really ruin the place, and its back is so bloody ugly.

It's another building that took years to complete, construction was stopped for a few years because the company didn't keep to it's agreement to renovate the stadium. For a long time it was just a big shell.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmxsZtPtI/AAAAAAAAAjA/mzy1bRBhtio/s1600/12-Phnom-Penh_Stade_UH-1D.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmwrT2ORI/AAAAAAAAAiw/NJvv5ykqLm4/s1600/15-Phnom-Penh_UH-1H.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmxSwYqrI/AAAAAAAAAi4/sIcHgvtuohk/s1600/14-Phnom-Penh_UH-1D.jpg

Some not very clear pictures of the stadium from 1975, after it had been used as a helicopter base in the final days of the civil war.

Road expansion on edge of the Stadium, this is on the Monireth Boulevard near City Mall. 3/7/2011

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2001/030720116282.jpg
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3417/030720116283.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5386/030720116284.jpghttp://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6957/030720116285.jpghttp://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5580/030720116286.jpg

Traffic is indeed very bad in this area during rush hour, especially in rain seasons now

where did you hear that from?

is probably a good idea, since the site is really too small to do any major sport event.

I don't understand how it can be a good idea, it's the only large open area in the city and is used by thousands of people every day to exercise, and of course it is big enough for sports events.

Anyway, the area to the north has been sold off. When they started the development they said it was going to be used for the new National Olympic Committees headquarters, but it has been sold to a private company to build a hotel and condominiums. There has also been talk of moving the National Sports Arena out to the suburbs if the city gets too congested and developing the site.
If this happens it will be a disaster, and obviously people in the city will no longer be able to exercise as travelling a huge distance to do so is just too much trouble for most people.
Phnom Penh doesn't need another 5 star hotel and a bunch of useless condominiums that will probably get abandoned because nobody wants to buy the ones that are already built.

I don't understand how it can be a good idea, it's the only large open area in the city and is used by thousands of people every day to exercise, and of course it is big enough for sports events.

Good development do not use the area to the max, these thosuands of people probably do not need that much rooms.

As with housing major sport events, it depends on what sort of event you want to hold, anything that use the whole site, and you will have major difficulties getting the audience and participant in and out of the site.

Phnom Penh doesn't need another 5 star hotel and a bunch of useless condominiums that will probably get abandoned because nobody wants to buy the ones that are already built. PP is overpopulated, people all over the world don't want to live in highrise when the city decide to move up, and you know what, these mentality will change. Our demand is low now, but it will increase.

Of course the area could be used better, and the facility is in bad need of refurbishment, however it is the only large open space left in the city away from the river. It would be a terrible loss to just have it turned into more tower blocks and malls like everywhere else.

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/2999/photafpanoramapichd.jpg

What sort of sporting facilities is inside the big strucrture above?

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/2999/photafpanoramapichd.jpg

how about this picture for banner???

the dimension is wrong if it I kept the aspect radio,

anyway, stretch it a bit, and this is what it will look like.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6666/photafpanoramapichdg.jpg

I think the left hand side is a little boring.

the dimension is wrong if it I kept the aspect radio,

anyway, stretch it a bit, and this is what it will look like.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6666/photafpanoramapichdg.jpg

I think the left hand side is a little boring.

There is the indoor stadium, which has in the last month been used for the WOVD World Cup, and before that for a kickboxing contest. The outside arena is used for Cambodian Football League competitions all the time. There are also tennis courts, an olympic sized swimming pool, other buildings used for Judo and badminton, bowling areas, and outdoor volleyball courts. The left hand side, along with all the other open spaces, are all used by people to play football on at weekends. It is also used as a driveway to access the rest of the stadium, to park vehicles on, and to set up marquees when large sports or music events are being held in the indoor stadium.

When the stadium was first built, there was a large rectangular ornamental pond in the area in front of the indoor stadium, and another one where the football pitch with the lamp in the middle is now.

Having open spaces around the stadium was a deliberate idea, to allow breezes to cool the area. Most people enjoy having some open space to relax in, unfortunately there is little of it left in the city, and eventually it seems it will be all crammed in like Hong Kong, with no parks or open areas for the people to relax in.

I think that large rectangular ornamental pond will revive at the time construction of Olympic Complex kick off :)

There is the indoor stadium, which has in the last month been used for the WOVD World Cup, and before that for a kickboxing contest. The outside arena is used for Cambodian Football League competitions all the time. There are also tennis courts, an olympic sized swimming pool, other buildings used for Judo and badminton, bowling areas, and outdoor volleyball courts. The left hand side, along with all the other open spaces, are all used by people to play football on at weekends. It is also used as a driveway to access the rest of the stadium, to park vehicles on, and to set up marquees when large sports or music events are being held in the indoor stadium.



Wow, that is a very full feature sporting complex. but today, we will have to clear 2 city block for parking if a major sporting event uses every facilities avaliable.



bowling areas



bowling? what sort of bowling? Ten Pin Bowling

When the stadium was first built, there was a large rectangular ornamental pond in the area in front of the indoor stadium, and another one where the football pitch with the lamp in the middle is now.

Having open spaces around the stadium was a deliberate idea, to allow breezes to cool the area. Most people enjoy having some open space to relax in, unfortunately there is little of it left in the city, and eventually it seems it will be all crammed in like Hong Kong, with no parks or open areas for the people to relax in.

open space is good, but just like most cities, it starts to disappear as populations demand takes over.

HK newer development has requirement to build fair amount of recreational & leisure area which is suppose to be open to public, unfortunately, it is deliberately positioned to look like a private area, so it is almost always underutilised.

Thanks for your reply, but next time you have give a response on a thread please try and actually have something to say. Your post didn't make any sense other than the fact that you are doing your best to act like a smart-ass, and you obviously don't really know or care much about what the citizens of Phnom Penh want.

What sort of sporting facilities is inside the big strucrture above?

I thought that you knew a lots about National Olympic Stadium Complex.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmxsZtPtI/AAAAAAAAAjA/mzy1bRBhtio/s1600/12-Phnom-Penh_Stade_UH-1D.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmwrT2ORI/AAAAAAAAAiw/NJvv5ykqLm4/s1600/15-Phnom-Penh_UH-1H.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xe_4UwSJDAQ/TOpmxSwYqrI/AAAAAAAAAi4/sIcHgvtuohk/s1600/14-Phnom-Penh_UH-1D.jpg

Some not very clear pictures of the stadium from 1975, after it had been used as a helicopter base in the final days of the civil war.

I thought Cambodia civil war ended in 1993. Is it correct?

There is the indoor stadium, which has in the last month been used for the WOVD World Cup, and before that for a kickboxing contest. The outside arena is used for Cambodian Football League competitions all the time. There are also tennis courts, an olympic sized swimming pool, other buildings used for Judo and badminton, bowling areas, and outdoor volleyball courts. The left hand side, along with all the other open spaces, are all used by people to play football on at weekends. It is also used as a driveway to access the rest of the stadium, to park vehicles on, and to set up marquees when large sports or music events are being held in the indoor stadium.

When the stadium was first built, there was a large rectangular ornamental pond in the area in front of the indoor stadium, and another one where the football pitch with the lamp in the middle is now.

Having open spaces around the stadium was a deliberate idea, to allow breezes to cool the area. Most people enjoy having some open space to relax in, unfortunately there is little of it left in the city, and eventually it seems it will be all crammed in like Hong Kong, with no parks or open areas for the people to relax in.

I share your points. You are right on the spot!

Wow, that is a very full feature sporting complex. but today, we will have to clear 2 city block for parking if a major sporting event uses every facilities avaliable..

That is not so true. Winter Olympic in Vancouver last year was hosted in a stadium (downtown) that only has a half city block or even less for parking. Without buildings around the Phnom Penh National Olympic Stadium, the complex would have enough space for parking.

I thought that you knew a lots about National Olympic Stadium Complex.

no, i don't, I am in city mall at different time of the week, sometimes, I see lots of people on the empty fields outside the stadium. I am not aware of any sporting events there recently (in the past 2 years), maybe because it was never marketed in chinese media.

That is not so true. Winter Olympic in Vancouver last year was hosted in a stadium (downtown) that only has a half city block or even less for parking.

I don't know much about Winter Olympic in Vancouver, it probably have very good public transport facilities.

Without buildings around the Phnom Penh National Olympic Stadium, the complex would have enough space for parking.

Off course, but we do have buildings around the Stadium.

I also suggest those of you that know a lot about the stadium go and update and share these knowledge in wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_National_Olympic_Stadium, there does not seems to be lots of details about the stadium in English on the web.

I thought Cambodia civil war ended in 1993. Is it correct?

I was talking about the 1970-1975 civil war. If you are talking about the later period of war after 1979, it didn't end in 1993. That's a sort of myth that the UN would like people to believe, that it brought peace to Cambodia. Fighting with the Khmer Rouge actually got worse after the 1993 elections, and the last KR units only surrendered, up near O'Smack, in early 1999.

I also suggest those of you that know a lot about the stadium go and update and share these knowledge in wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh_National_Olympic_Stadium, there does not seems to be lots of details about the stadium in English on the web.

I'm not sure if you can edit Wikipedia from Cambodia. They stopped it after some clowns went on and put bogus details about various political leaders a few years ago.

I love that Aerobics at the Stadium haha and Its funny to listining to Khmer techno xD
http://www.travelfish.org/blogs/phnompenh/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_8621.jpg
http://www.travelfish.org/blogs/phnompenh/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/olympic-aerobics.jpg

Sometimes there are hundreds of People doing aerobics

I love that Aerobics at the Stadium haha and Its funny to listining to Khmer techno xD
http://www.travelfish.org/blogs/phnompenh/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/IMG_8621.jpghttp://www.travelfish.org/blogs/phnompenh/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/olympic-aerobics.jpg

Sometimes there are hundreds of People doing aerobics

these aerobic gathering take places in dozens of places around PP.

Yes, and the funny thing is no one cares even if you dance with your pyjama on :)

I love that Aerobics at the Stadium haha and Its funny to listining to Khmer techno xD


I think they have all kinds of techno - Khmer, Korean, English and old Chinese songs :)

That's good! SeeMacau in one day we join them together...lol .

Yes, and the funny thing is no one cares even if you dance with your pyjama on :) Yes, it must be some culture here, you see plenty of people on bike, on the street, exercise, serving customers, etc, in pyjamas.

Yes, it must be some culture here, you see plenty of people on bike, on the street, exercise, serving customers, etc, in pyjamas.

I think that the pyjamas are realy comfortable ^^
Most Pyamas consist of 100% Cotton and I believe it is not so hot in it :D
I think I should try it haha xD

The Olympic Stadium needs to restoration even Laos have a better and bigger Stadium with blue seats:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4189601575_3019f8a5c6_z.jpg

Did laos build the stadium from scratch, or refurniture a old one.

PP has give up the site and will use it for commercial/residential development.

The stadium in Laos was built from scratch (Laos host the 2009 Seagames) with the support from Thailand and China.

That's good! SeeMacau in one day we join them together...lol .

Ok, I'll sit aside and do the filming, post it in this forum afterward lol :D

The stadium in Laos was built from scratch (Laos host the 2009 Seagames) with the support from Thailand and China.

So we can't really compare theirs and ours directly, if we want a good one, comparable to other SEA countries, we probably also should build one from scratch.

Another thing, did Laos has an existing old stadium of some sort before 2009?

2011/9/13

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/ae204/ssccambo1/Picture009.jpg

National Olympic Committee

http://komnit.com/images/Project/Exterior/Building/PB-K003/Office-01.jpg

http://komnit.com/images/Project/Exterior/Building/PB-K003/Office-01-1.jpg

Design is a bit cheesy

that is one of the best designs in cambodia so far

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-11/57524778.jpg

http://cache.images.globalsportsmedia.com/soccer/venues/600x450/4144.jpg

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1076/5104406509_7ef6a3cfeb_z.jpg

http://komnit.com/images/Project/Exterior/Building/PB-K003/Office-01-1.jpg

The design is ugly. The semi tube on the side of the building does nothing for its architecture and this building seems to not have any sense of style or focal point. Very disappointing for such an important building in Cambodia. :ohno:

Yes, it must be some culture here, you see plenty of people on bike, on the street, exercise, serving customers, etc, in pyjamas.

It is about personal preferences and habits. I don't think it has much to do with culture.

The design is ugly. The semi tube on the side of the building does nothing for its architecture and this building seems to not have any sense of style or focal point. Very disappointing for such an important building in Cambodia. :ohno:

what is so important about this building?

It is about personal preferences and habits. I don't think it has much to do with culture. ok,

It must be some habits here, you see plenty of people on bike, on the street, exercise, serving customers, etc, in pajamas.

what is so important about this building?



NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.

NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.

Yeah, but is not like it need to be a landmark building or something.

this is the Dubai version.. look how boring.

http://www.thenational.ae/deployedfiles/Assets/Richmedia/File/Building.jpg

even the u.s isnt top notch

http://www.teamusa.org/~/media/F6E9B2DE8E994A79BAB8773939424DA3.ashx

I think the crown is not necessary, it ruins the overall design of the building

ok,

It must be some habits here, you see plenty of people on bike, on the street, exercise, serving customers, etc, in pajamas.

With climate like this in Cambodia, these pyjamas have become the cloth of preference among the local for day and night, and they are cheap and comfortable.

With climate like this in Cambodia, these pyjamas have become the cloth of preference among the local for day and night, and they are cheap and comfortable.

I am not disagreeing with you. It must be comfortable, just not necessary appropiate.

What is your opinion about those that cover themselve with just a piece of sarlong (?? spelling) and serve customer in their shop?

^^ appropriate or not is not an issue here, here in australia you should know that we have nude beaches, aussies wear shoes when coming in to asian homes, really offensive!

^^ appropriate or not is not an issue here, here in australia you should know that we have nude beaches, aussies wear shoes when coming in to asian homes, really offensive!

Cambodian has become more and more open to western custom, I wonder if nude beaches will ever be introduce here.

I am not disagreeing with you. It must be comfortable, just not necessary appropiate.

Depending where you are from and what you are used to growing up, being appropriate or not is a question of individual perspective.

What is your opinion about those that cover themselve with just a piece of sarlong (?? spelling) and serve customer in their shop?

Sarong, not sarlong, I guess. Small and/or family business shops, I have no problem there. This is a third country. I don't expect much.

^^ appropriate or not is not an issue here, here in australia you should know that we have nude beaches, aussies wear shoes when coming in to asian homes, really offensive!

Absolutely right.

Cambodian has become more and more open to western custom, I wonder if nude beaches will ever be introduce here.

Probably not under PM Hun Sen. He would give a 10 hours lecture on that.

Sarong, not sarlong, I guess. Small and/or family business shops, I have no problem there. This is a third country. I don't expect much.

While Cambodia as a whole, may be consider a third world country (and I am sure most would prefer it to be called developing nation), I think the capital Phnom Penh should not be consider a third world city.

Cambodian has become more and more open to western custom, I wonder if nude beaches will ever be introduce here.

If it happens, 99.9% of the people on the beach are men. :lol:

If it happens, 99.9% of the people on the beach are men. :lol:

Oh godness, that would be so terrible.

While Cambodia as a whole, may be consider a third world country (and I am sure most would prefer it to be called developing nation), I think the capital Phnom Penh should not be consider a third world city.

I don't remember if there is such thing called or considered a "third world city", but perhaps I am not up to today usages of words.

i dont care those design, i just care about Cambodia are going to have other modern stadium, that's enough, we're getting better, :banana: