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Clock Tower (Kuala Lumpur) Lee Rubber Building (Kuala Lumpur) [3] Odeon Cinema (Kuala Lumpur) [4] Oriental Building (Kuala Lumpur) [2] Rubber Research Institute of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) [5] Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque (Brunei) [6][7] Kenneth Cavendish Duncan [8] British Council Building, Kuala Lumpur [9][10] Maternity Hospital, Kuala ...
Website. www.hijjas.com. Hijjas bin Kasturi (born 26 September 1936) is a Malaysian architect. [1] Active for more than fifty years, he has been responsible for some of the most significant buildings in South East Asia, in the modern, postmodern, and deconstructivist styles. He is considered the father of Malaysian architecture of the second ...
Ken Yeang (6 October 1948) is an architect, ecologist, planner and author from Malaysia, best known for his ecological architecture and ecomasterplans that have a distinctive green aesthetic. He pioneered an ecology-based architecture (since 1971), working on the theory and practice of sustainable design. The Guardian newspaper (2008) named him ...
e. Architecture in Malaysia traditionally consist of malay vernacular architecture. Though modern contemporary architecture is prevalent in urban areas there are style influences from Islamic, colonial architecture, chinese straits etc. [1] New materials, such as glasses and nails, were brought in by Europeans, changing the architecture. [2]
The Petronas Towers' structural system is a tube in tube design, invented by Bangladeshi-American architect Fazlur Rahman Khan. [7][8] Applying a tube-structure for extreme tall buildings is a common phenomenon. [9][10] The 88-floor towers are constructed largely of reinforced concrete, with a steel and glass facade designed to resemble motifs ...
Kington Loo. Kington Loo (17 October 1930 – 21 March 2003) was an architect in Malaysia who belongs to the group who brought modernism to Southeast Asia in the wake of World War II. The firm he worked for, Booty and Edwards, became a leader in the region. His mother, Lok Soh June, was an accomplished piano player and was the sixth daughter of ...
Lim remained in Australia for 13 years before returning to Malaysia in 1972 to work as an architect for the Project Architects firm. His first project in Malaysia was a semi-conductor plant in Subang for Motorola. [5] In 1978 Lim began his own architecture firm, CSL associates, which is now called Jimmy Lim Design.
Arthur Charles Alfred Norman. Arthur Charles Alfred Norman (1858-1944), often referred to as A. C. Norman, was a British architect who was active in Malaya at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century. [1] Some of the most important colonial era buildings of Kuala Lumpur built in that period were credited to him, although ...