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TheABHubbackProject
Jun 27, 20218 min read
Not by Hubback: Istana Mahkota Puri, Klang
Sultan Abdul Samad may have declined the 'Istana' offered to him on Bukit Nanas in preference for Jugra, but apparently some time in...
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TheABHubbackProject
May 23, 20204 min read
NOT BY HUBBACK: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE KUALA LUMPUR
No one knows who designed Kuala Lumpur’s Government Printing Office. Guide books have credited Arthur Charles Alfred Norman as the...
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TheABHubbackProject
May 3, 20201 min read
New Government Offices: Spatial Usage in 1897
If you've ever wondered how the 'New Government Offices' (Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad) was used when it was just completed in April 1897,...
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TheABHubbackProject
May 2, 20201 min read
Site Proposed for the FMS Survey Office Building in 1908
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...
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TheABHubbackProject
Apr 19, 20204 min read
Architect Thomas Steele
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...
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TheABHubbackProject
Jan 21, 20183 min read
Government Offices, Kuala Lumpur: The 1893 Proposal
Kuala Lumpur history buffs would know of the Neo Classical design proposals that preceded the present Saracenic/Mughal-eclectic styled...
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