George Town –Where Design and Culture Must Continue to Merge
By Laurence Loh
July 2011 COVER STORY
George Town’s built heritage is a great example of design moderated by cultural context. We notice this in the city’s morphology, the building typologies lining the streets, and the spaces between the public realm and private sanctuaries. The architectural notions of harmony and proportion and of lightness and weight are unavoidably present, bringing to our minds poignant moments of history. Time’s passing is captured in these studied variations. For this experience, we owe a debt to the master builders who planted...
Laurence Loh
is an amply awarded architect whose most noted project is the world-renowned Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Penang, which won the Unesco Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards in 2000 for the “Most Excellent Project”. In 2008 his restoration of Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s Stadium of Independence, was conferred the Unesco “Award of Excellence” and his restoration of Suffolk House in Penang, the only surviving Anglo-Indian Georgian mansion in South-East Asia, was accorded the Unesco “Award of Distinction”.
