With certain site-specific installations, the art has been created with its architectural environment in mind.

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But Peter Murray, chairman of London's Centre for the Built Environment - an architectural forum - sounded a note of optimism.

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Design inspiration is taken from the unique environment in which each property is based, like native architectural signatures and innovative local art and indigenous furniture.

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They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

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