It has been dubbed as the "Cambodian Taliesin"[2] and praised as a "testimony to the unique ability of Southeast Asia's greatest living architect to fuse European modernism with traditional Khmer design in an apparently seamless style.

Downstairs on the ground floor was his atelier workshop and so [it] was actually like the birthplace of lots of milestones in New Khmer Architecture.After living in the house for less than five short years, the Molyvann family moved to Switzerland for safety in 1971 as the Civil War broke out in Cambodia.

[7] After Vann Molyvann left Cambodia in 1971, the house was rented to building contractor Comin Khmer, which then sublet it to a Danish man.

In 2004, Vann Molyvann moved to Siem Reap where he built houses inspired by the same design with the same typical urban relationship at a 45° angle to the road.

In 2014, social networks in Cambodia were concerned to see the "building gutted and strewn with rubble"; a plan to turn the house into a design showroom did not last.

[8] Just like some of his achievements such as the Council of Ministers that was demolished in 2008 or the Preah Suramarit National Theater after a devastating fire,[4] it is now feared that, due to urban development and land speculation, this house will suffer the same fate or be transformed into a shopping center or offices.

This is because although the ground floor is orthogonal to the road, the upper levels are at a 45-degree angle to the base, so that all four facades of the domestic part of the house benefit from a good aspect overlooking the garden.

The main structure of the Vann Molyvann House combines reinforced concrete, with brick facing, as in many of his others buildings such as St. Michael's Church in Sihanoukville.

[2] The ground floor level houses the architect's atelier, staff quarters, a car port and entrance porch.

[2] The complexity of the design and detail reveals how much attention Vann Molyvann paid to his family life, but its originality demonstrates how, liberated of the constraints of a public commission, he experimented with risky concepts and construction techniques that he would not have done otherwise.