Kuala Lumpur was founded ca. 1857 at the confluence of the Gombak and Klang rivers. In English, the name Kuala Lumpur literally means “muddy confluence”. The venture into the muddy confluence started when a member of the Selangor royal family hired tin prospectors to open tin mines in the Klang Valley.
Raja Abdullah & Raja Jumaat send worker to find tin ore
KL – Garden City of Lights
Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad – 4 million red bricks – Government office
A.B.Hubback
1897 Government Offices (Sultan Abdul Samad Building), Kuala Lumpur
1901 Carcosa Seri Negari, Kuala Lumpur
1904 Town Hall-Sanitary Board, Kuala Lumpur
1905 FMS Central Railways Office (National Textile Museum), Kuala Lumpur
1906 Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, and King’s Pavilion, Kuala Kangsar
1907 FMS Railway Terminal Building (Wisma Kastam), Penang
General Post Office, Kuala Lumpur
1909 Jamek Mosque, Kuala Lumpur
Malay College, Kuala Kangsar
White House, Klang
1910 Railway Station and Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur
Federated Survey Office, Kuala Lumpur
1913 Kowloon Railway Station
1915 High Court, Kuala Lumpur
1916 Town Hall and Post Office, Ipoh
1917 Ubudiah Mosque, Kuala Kangsar, Malay Railway Building, Kuala Lumpur
1920 Ipoh Railway Station and Hotel
Tugu Negara – National Monument
National Museum – Minangkabau architecture
Petronas – 88 story – 452meters
Cesar Pelli – argentina architect
KL Tower – 421meters
Muqarnas Pattern
Merdeka 118 – 678.9meters
Fender Katsalidis – Melbourne based, Merdeka 118
