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  2. Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion - Wikipedia

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    The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is a government gazetted heritage building located on Leith Street in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The mansion's external decorations and indigo-blue outer walls make it a very distinctive building, and it is sometimes referred to as The Blue Mansion. [1] Built by the merchant Cheong Fatt Tze at the end of the 19th ...

  3. Adaptive reuse - Wikipedia

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    Adaptive reuse is defined as the aesthetic process that adapts buildings for new uses while retaining their historic features. Using an adaptive reuse model can prolong a building's life, from cradle-to-grave, by retaining all or most of the building system, including the structure, the shell and even the interior materials. [5]

  4. Central Market, Kuala Lumpur - Wikipedia

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    Background. Central Market Kuala Lumpur is located at Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock (Foch Avenue) and the pedestrian-only section of Jalan Hang Kasturi (Rodger Street), a few minutes away from Petaling Street and next to Klang River. It was founded in 1888 as a wet market, [1] while the current Art Deco-style building was completed in 1937.

  5. Urban Transformation Centre - Wikipedia

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    Urban Transformation Centre. The Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) (Malay: Pusat Transformasi Bandar) is a public amenities centre located at some state capitals and urban areas in Malaysia. The rural counterpart of UTC is Rural Transformation Center (RTC). UTC can be found in the tallest building by state in Malaysia, such as City Plaza Tower ...

  6. Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property

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    Restoring a building for another purpose than its original intent is called adaptive reuse. Financially, businesses are better off restoring a building and adapting it for modern use than constructing a new site. The buildings are often built to better standards and as mentioned above have unique architectural elements that can increase business.

  7. Glulam Gallery - Wikipedia

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    The gallery is built on 4.9 hectares of land owned by MTIB and showcases the use of adhesives and wood laminates as a loadbearing architectural structure and building cladding. [4] It uses 39 sets of glulam load-bearing structures made from timbers. [5] The gallery is internally configured as an exposition, banquet, conference and seminar ...

  8. Urban renewal - Wikipedia

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    New buildings under construction in Haifa as part of the evacuate and build program. Israel has been undergoing extensive urban renewal projects due to the large number of concrete tenement buildings in its cities which do not meet modern Israeli safety standards and have what is widely considered to be an impoverished and unattractive appearance.

  9. Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur - Wikipedia

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    It is located within the Kuala Lumpur City Centre precinct in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The building was developed by Ipoh-born Singapore tycoon, Ong Beng Seng , partnering Tan Sri Syed Yusof Tun Syed Nasir and the Sultan of Selangor under Venus Assets Sdn Bhd. [ 3 ] It is currently the sixth tallest building in Malaysia .