Olympic Stadium to be Gutted?
Olympic Stadium is a run down hole....I love it.
If it wasn't there, I would not, on my first time in Cambodia have had.....
1. A quiet place to go in the mornings for a coffee and a cigarette before heading off to save the world.
2. Somewhere to play football every weekend with an eclectic bunch of provincial Khmer mates living in Phnom Penh.
3. An interesting conversation with a car salesman from Kampong Cham after he found me fobbing shoddy caricatures and paper darts off on to some street urchins who had tried begging off me. "We used to make trucks! Now we can't even make a bicycle tire!"
4. The chance to watch the Cambodian Football Team lose to a South Korean University Team 1-0 after a ridiculous 30 or 40 metre lucky Korean strike that bounced of a Khmer defender into the goal.
5. The opportunity to jump off the highest diving board at the Olympic pool and out splashing numerous local kids who were doing 4 at a time jumps in their LEXUS and fake Calvin Klein undies.
6. A very fast paced and difficult game of football with some random or not so random Nigerians.
7. Played Filipino missionary basketball.
After coming back to live, I used to go there just to chill out. Was looking forward to watching a Leonard Cohen concert in a stadium designed by Vann Morrison, but it never happened fortunately as I was to broke to buy a ticket.
I ended up taking my fiance there. Romantic hangout. Just her and me, watching 70 fat Khmer women doing aerobics.
If it wasn't there, I would not, on my first time in Cambodia have had.....
1. A quiet place to go in the mornings for a coffee and a cigarette before heading off to save the world.
2. Somewhere to play football every weekend with an eclectic bunch of provincial Khmer mates living in Phnom Penh.
3. An interesting conversation with a car salesman from Kampong Cham after he found me fobbing shoddy caricatures and paper darts off on to some street urchins who had tried begging off me. "We used to make trucks! Now we can't even make a bicycle tire!"
4. The chance to watch the Cambodian Football Team lose to a South Korean University Team 1-0 after a ridiculous 30 or 40 metre lucky Korean strike that bounced of a Khmer defender into the goal.
5. The opportunity to jump off the highest diving board at the Olympic pool and out splashing numerous local kids who were doing 4 at a time jumps in their LEXUS and fake Calvin Klein undies.
6. A very fast paced and difficult game of football with some random or not so random Nigerians.
7. Played Filipino missionary basketball.
After coming back to live, I used to go there just to chill out. Was looking forward to watching a Leonard Cohen concert in a stadium designed by Vann Morrison, but it never happened fortunately as I was to broke to buy a ticket.
I ended up taking my fiance there. Romantic hangout. Just her and me, watching 70 fat Khmer women doing aerobics.
Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
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I'm not sure it had anything much to do with Van the Man at all.MoodyMac wrote: in a stadium designed by Vann Morrison
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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No money to be made off of public spaces by the kleptocrats, so anything goes. I seriously doubt any new stadium will be built, again, no money to be made off it, unless all funding is donated...
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Where is the god of tits and wine?
Lucky Lucan wrote:I'm not sure it had anything much to do with Van the Man at all.MoodyMac wrote: in a stadium designed by Vann Morrison
Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
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That's what I mentioned earlier;vladimir wrote:I wonder how long it is before schools like Sisowath High School start getting relocated.
There were of course promises a few years back that schools couldn't be relocated or involved in land-swaps, but we all know how much water any of these promises hold by now. If it does start happening though, Sisowath will probably be saved till last as it's where many of the children of the elite go.Lucky Lucan wrote: They've just got to figure out a way of developing all those pagodas and national schools next, maybe they can relocate them out to the provinces so we can have more banks and shopping centers in town.
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I was once touched up by quite possibly the campest man ever while I was recovering from a run around the top of the terraced seating.MoodyMac wrote:Olympic Stadium is a run down hole....I love it.
If it wasn't there, I would not, on my first time in Cambodia have had.....
1. A quiet place to go in the mornings for a coffee and a cigarette before heading off to save the world.
2. Somewhere to play football every weekend with an eclectic bunch of provincial Khmer mates living in Phnom Penh.
3. An interesting conversation with a car salesman from Kampong Cham after he found me fobbing shoddy caricatures and paper darts off on to some street urchins who had tried begging off me. "We used to make trucks! Now we can't even make a bicycle tire!"
4. The chance to watch the Cambodian Football Team lose to a South Korean University Team 1-0 after a ridiculous 30 or 40 metre lucky Korean strike that bounced of a Khmer defender into the goal.
5. The opportunity to jump off the highest diving board at the Olympic pool and out splashing numerous local kids who were doing 4 at a time jumps in their LEXUS and fake Calvin Klein undies.
6. A very fast paced and difficult game of football with some random or not so random Nigerians.
7. Played Filipino missionary basketball.
After coming back to live, I used to go there just to chill out. Was looking forward to watching a Leonard Cohen concert in a stadium designed by Vann Morrison, but it never happened fortunately as I was to broke to buy a ticket.
I ended up taking my fiance there. Romantic hangout. Just her and me, watching 70 fat Khmer women doing aerobics.
The mini climbing wall inside was a good facility, but you had to evict the sleeping street urchins and hawkers from the crashmat first.
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Obviously, the Olympic Stadium fulfills a number of important public functions, with hundreds, if not thousands of Khmers exercising and socializing every day. It is of course also one of the -by now- few remaining examples of Molyvann's architecture. What with all the Khmer boohaa about Khmer culture, they seem not interested in protecting it as soon as there is a single dollar to be made (and in this corrupt nation, there is always a bit more than that!).
I just don't get it. Vast ranges of land expanding west and north of the city, simple ricefields ready to build on. Basically, that whole wedge between Pochentong and the road to Battambang, plus Chroy Changvar (and perhaps more than that), could be used for development. Build your concrete/glass altars there. Leave and restore that unique historical center, which is an attraction for tourists and generates dollars on every level. Somebody create a masterplan!
In my years here, I have seen PP change from a unique city with special architecture (Colonial as well as New Khmer), lovely shaded streets, a potentially beautiful lake, into a concrete jungle, rapidly becoming indiscernible from any other city. Perhaps for many Khmers that is what they want - be like all other 'modern' nations. Many don't seem to notice they're throwing away their unique history and culture in the process.
The OS could be restored, and become a center for Khmer sports. I propose to build a new boxing ring (potentially the most interesting local sport, for locals as well as tourists), have all sports associations reside there, and why not, start a museum devoted to New Khmer architecture. Especially that last thing should remind the people of an era in which there was a confident and optimistic nation growing, learning, and being part of the wider modern world. A time and atmosphere almost unimaginable now...
I just don't get it. Vast ranges of land expanding west and north of the city, simple ricefields ready to build on. Basically, that whole wedge between Pochentong and the road to Battambang, plus Chroy Changvar (and perhaps more than that), could be used for development. Build your concrete/glass altars there. Leave and restore that unique historical center, which is an attraction for tourists and generates dollars on every level. Somebody create a masterplan!
In my years here, I have seen PP change from a unique city with special architecture (Colonial as well as New Khmer), lovely shaded streets, a potentially beautiful lake, into a concrete jungle, rapidly becoming indiscernible from any other city. Perhaps for many Khmers that is what they want - be like all other 'modern' nations. Many don't seem to notice they're throwing away their unique history and culture in the process.
The OS could be restored, and become a center for Khmer sports. I propose to build a new boxing ring (potentially the most interesting local sport, for locals as well as tourists), have all sports associations reside there, and why not, start a museum devoted to New Khmer architecture. Especially that last thing should remind the people of an era in which there was a confident and optimistic nation growing, learning, and being part of the wider modern world. A time and atmosphere almost unimaginable now...
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andyinasia wrote:According to today's news, no.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/ ... umour.html
Others said the same thing about lake construction circa 2005/06. I will believe it when the stadium is still there in 5 years. I like the first comment after that article, nailed it perfectly.
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Just in case anyone's too lazy to check out that link or it gets taken down, here's what it said:Felgerkarb wrote:andyinasia wrote:According to today's news, no.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/ ... umour.html
Others said the same thing about lake construction circa 2005/06. I will believe it when the stadium is still there in 5 years. I like the first comment after that article, nailed it perfectly.
And here's the astute comment Felgerkarb referred to:PPP wrote:Phnom Penh’s iconic Olympic Stadium would not be lost to the city’s rapid development, an official at Canadia Bank’s Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) told the Post yesterday in response to questions about an online campaign launched in opposition to the rumoured plan.
Meng Chamroeun, site engineer for OCIC’s proposed constructions around the National Sports Complex, said his company “would not cause any damage to Cambodian sporting heritage”.
The campaign, entitled Future of the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh and posted by MyStadium Team last Thursday on the blogsite cityofwater.wordpress.com, claimed OCIC intended to demolish the stadium to make way for new buildings, citing undisclosed sources “at a high level in the government”.
The author also pointed readers to a link to a Facebook fan page for Olympic Stadium Phnom Penh.
Although Meng Chamroeun could not rule out the possibility of other companies developing the site in the future, he made assurances that the OCIC was interested only in enhancing the “beauty of the stadium”.
“We are currently performing maintenance work on the drainage system of the north side of the National Sports Complex. We will also build the new 10-storey National Olympic Committee of Cambodia headquarters on the periphery of the complex,” he said.
The NOCC building will also house a state-of-the-art Sports Medicine and Science Centre as well as offices for the Paralympics Committee.
The 50,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, completed in 1964, was designed by legendary Cambodian architect Vann Molyvann to host the 1963 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, which were cancelled because of political turmoil.
Cambodia is the only founding member of the SEA Games never to have hosted the biennial event.
Now here's a photo of the indoor stadium taken today:Im Nai Ive wrote:Tomorrow a broken promise/contradictory action, and someone 'too busy' to comment.
I heard from a very reliable source this evening that it's been sold, and blue fences aren't usually a good sign.....
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Phnom Penh city is not a good place to get exhausted anyway, to much diesel sod in the air.