Arthur Benison Hubback

AB Hubback's appointment as the FMS Government Architect in 1911 also saw him as an Unofficial Member of Sanitary Board Kuala Lumpur....

Sultan Abdul Samad may have declined the 'Istana' offered to him on Bukit Nanas in preference for Jugra, but apparently some time in...

Article extracted from The Malay Mail, 16 March 1904 Much has been done of late to improve the town of Kuala Lumpur and make it worthy of...

Built into a column near the entrance of Masjid Jamek's main prayer hall is the building's foundation stone, an engraved white marble...

Between the 1880s and 1967, official currencies used by the Selangor State Government were initially a variety of silver dollars; Mexican...

No one knows who designed Kuala Lumpur’s Government Printing Office. Guide books have credited Arthur Charles Alfred Norman as the...

A.B Hubback was on a voyage to England with his family when World War I officially begun on 28 July 1914. Upon arrival in August 1914, he...

If you've ever wondered how the 'New Government Offices' (Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad) was used when it was just completed in April 1897,...

In 1908, before the FMS Survey Office project at Java Street was given a go ahead, another site opposite the Sanitary Board was put into...

Some of A.B Hubback’s design schemes were completed only after the First World War. He had decided to stay on in the UK, and so his...

Hubback's work also made an impact on KL's skyline. The Government Office on Jalan Raja (Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad), with its clock...

Kuala Lumpur history buffs would know of the Neo Classical design proposals that preceded the present Saracenic/Mughal-eclectic styled...