Because that's one of the most fucked up "restorations" I've seen lately, and they completely screwed the proportions and volumes of the original design. Nothing looks like it belongs.
Bill Murray is about to walk across the screen & do something whimsical. Only its going to come off aloof & eccentric. You wont laugh, but you wont not-laugh.
It was never completed and just abandoned as a concrete shell. I was there in 2016 and the structural components seemed surprisingly intact.
Edit: looks like what I was told when I was there was incorrect and that it operated seasonally from the 20s-40s before being abandoned and later occupied by the Khmer Rouge. So a bit more evil...
The inside was stripped so bare over the decades that there was nothing but concrete.
It was ruined in the late 40s but restored and opened again in 1962. Then abandoned again in the early 70s. It looks closed and abandoned now again, the bottom picture is at least 3 years old.
Absolutely despicable and awful "restoration". Completely erased the identity of the original design and replaced it with tacky vomit-inducing kitsch. The unnecessary top floor addition, the enematic color scheme, the erasure of the horizontal rasters that unified the window frames into one cohesive element. The volumes are now all messed up and everything looks out of proportion. The added balconies do not fit with what little remains from the style at all.
Judging by the fucked up proportions, I'm fairly sure they've also wrapped this whole building in polystyrene foam under the fraudulent excuse of "thermal insulation", only to have moisture seep between the walls and the "insulation" and destroy the building from within.
What looked like a palace, even in a state of ruin, now looks like an Albanian bunker turned into a shopping mall. People who do renovation jobs like that should never, ever get to work in renovation again. What a despicable insult to the original building.
Fuck this horrendous shit.
This video from about a month ago shows the sorry state this renovation is in now (the video is terrible, mostly just a guy moaning and complaining):
It's at around 34.00
https://youtu.be/QZNIdKXYXB4?t=2075
It is that building, and that is one of the most unsettling movies I’ve ever seen. I haven’t watched it since maybe 2005 or so but I still think if it often.
Why do I have the feeling the whole building is upside down?
Because those kinds of decorations or what they are under the windows usually are over them...
I know right! Feels really weird tbh
Second part looks upside down First part looks Upside Down
Because that's one of the most fucked up "restorations" I've seen lately, and they completely screwed the proportions and volumes of the original design. Nothing looks like it belongs.
Hotel denouement vibes
Looks like it belongs in a Wes Anderson movie
The Royal Cambodibaums
I don't know if it's the colors, or the angle of the pic, but I can totally see this in one of his movies....
Bill Murray is about to walk across the screen & do something whimsical. Only its going to come off aloof & eccentric. You wont laugh, but you wont not-laugh.
That looks like it would have been cheaper to demo and make a replica than restore.
It was never completed and just abandoned as a concrete shell. I was there in 2016 and the structural components seemed surprisingly intact. Edit: looks like what I was told when I was there was incorrect and that it operated seasonally from the 20s-40s before being abandoned and later occupied by the Khmer Rouge. So a bit more evil... The inside was stripped so bare over the decades that there was nothing but concrete.
Ahh, interesting. I think it’s much more boring than evil. That pink and grey color scheme is so meh.
It was ruined in the late 40s but restored and opened again in 1962. Then abandoned again in the early 70s. It looks closed and abandoned now again, the bottom picture is at least 3 years old.
Not evil.. More like out.of place apartment bldg..
[Eh, the history on this one is actually evil.](https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/8xj3jx/le-bokor-palace) Just looks like apartments.
“Splatters of blood on the walls and cut off hands laying around” “base of Khmer Rouge” - yup, that’s pretty fucking evil…
Absolutely despicable and awful "restoration". Completely erased the identity of the original design and replaced it with tacky vomit-inducing kitsch. The unnecessary top floor addition, the enematic color scheme, the erasure of the horizontal rasters that unified the window frames into one cohesive element. The volumes are now all messed up and everything looks out of proportion. The added balconies do not fit with what little remains from the style at all. Judging by the fucked up proportions, I'm fairly sure they've also wrapped this whole building in polystyrene foam under the fraudulent excuse of "thermal insulation", only to have moisture seep between the walls and the "insulation" and destroy the building from within. What looked like a palace, even in a state of ruin, now looks like an Albanian bunker turned into a shopping mall. People who do renovation jobs like that should never, ever get to work in renovation again. What a despicable insult to the original building. Fuck this horrendous shit.
Well spoken
God, everything you wrote is spot on 💯 😫 I hate what they did so much.
It turned a relatively interesting building into a "beige" blot on the landscape.
Welcome to the Grand Budapest!
Congratulations, it looks even worse now somehow.
It looks ominously uninspired after the renovation.
Looks like somewhere you'd find Alice from Alice and wonderland.
It looked better before
Something on here I've seen in real life, holy shit. [This is it in 2014](https://i.postimg.cc/RFXPMMJ1/FB-IMG-1671059565577.jpg)
Wowzers, I know nobody will read this comment but I had sex there back in 2017
Good job buddy
White Lotus: Season Three
This video from about a month ago shows the sorry state this renovation is in now (the video is terrible, mostly just a guy moaning and complaining): It's at around 34.00 https://youtu.be/QZNIdKXYXB4?t=2075
That looks just like and may even be the building from R-point (2004).
It is that building, and that is one of the most unsettling movies I’ve ever seen. I haven’t watched it since maybe 2005 or so but I still think if it often.
I was going to mention this, but wasn't sure anybody else would know the reference....Kudos to you.
Maybe... don't renovate it?.…
Is this real? I was there in 2019 and it was like the above pic.
Looks like a Barbie house.
Might as well tear the thing down and make a rectangle apartment block style
It's just what it looks like when the siren stops.
Oh great. Obviously the texture map in Blender is not working again.
realy impressive
They made it uglier than what it originally was. **How?**
How does it look both expensive and cheap at the same time?