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Design in Bloom

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Design in Bloom

For French architect Antoine Meinnel, a chance visit to Cambodia saw him fall in love with the country's heritage architecture, and invent fresh ways to bring it back to life

Simon Ostheimer
Apr 10, 2021
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Antoine Meinnel never expected to be running his own architecture firm in Cambodia, but when in 2015 his parents asked him to fly over from France to take a look at a heritage property they'd just bought in the sleepy seaside town of Kampot, it set in train a series of motions. “When I saw the beauty of this old, neglected colonial shophouse, I decided …

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