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Central Market

This Art Deco building by architect/engineer TY Lee began construction in 1936. Its layout is splayed to align with the street pattern. No two façades are alike but the whole is held together by the unifying treatment of the windows and doors. The stepped entrance design as well as the strong moulded frieze, which runs along just below the roofline, is repeated on the sides. Note the Art Deco ornamentation in the form of the wrought iron panels of interlocking rings, above the doorways. The windows and skylight are "Calorex" glass, which transmits only 20% of the sun's hear but admits 60% daylight. For years, the Market was Kuala Lumpur's largest single room, measuring 123.7 m long, 60.8m wide and 7.9m high (407 ft x 200 ft x 26 ft).

Central Market was the town's wholesale and retail wet market. When the decision was made to demolish the market and surrounding shophouses, concerned citizens and organisations, including Badan Warisan Malaysia, campaigned for its conservation. With government backing, Bumi Harta Sdn Bhd, the property developer, commissioned architects William Lim Associates and Chen Voon Fee to renovate the building. Reopened in 1986, this was the first case of a heritage building being adapted for a change in its use on a large scale.

The Central Market complex is a cultural centre, filled with restaurants, cinemas and handicraft shops.

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