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The Sleuk Rith Institute:Zaha Hadid’s soft hymn to Cambodia’s fallen

United Kingdom Architecture News - Oct 11, 2014 - 11:26   2685 views

The Sleuk Rith Institute:Zaha Hadid’s soft hymn to Cambodia’s fallen

The south facade of the Sleuk Rith Institute in Phnom Penh. Photograph courtesy of the Institute

Built to house a vast archive of documents about the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, in which two million people lost their lives, the Sleuk Rith Institute is to be a radical shift for its architect Zaha Hadid – who has gone from violent geometry to warm wood...Continue Reading

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