Tag: architecture

• WWWarisan #8 is out

  

  Just a quick post to let you know that the 8th edition of my heritage newsletter, WWWarisan, is now out. You can read the newsletter online here. If you enjoyed reading the letter and want monthly heritage headlines delivered straight to you inbox, do consider subscribing – which you can do here.

  Soon-Tzu Speechley

  Mar 22, 2017

  blog

  architectural conservation, architectural heritage, architecture, heritage, jerusalem, kuala lumpur, palmyra, penang, singapore, vancouver, world heritage, world heritage sites

• Komtar on Failed Architecture

  

  Eyesore or icon, Komtar has come to represent George Town. Its transformation will be a barometer of the direction the city takes in the early twenty-first century. Across the historic centre, homes have made way for spaces of consumption, and old traders have given way to new businesses. The reinvention of Komtar’s main tower, with…

  Soon-Tzu Speechley

  Jun 6, 2016

  article, blog

  architecture, buckminster fuller, failed architecture, george town, komtar, malaysia, modernism, penang