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

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 …