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Kuala Lumpur Railway Station
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station: Kuala Lumpur railway station (Rawang-Seremban & Sentul-Port Klang Line) (frontal facade), Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station: Kuala Lumpur Railway Station (18792035109)

Photo: Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Station · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur Railway Station

On the globe
Dated
Dated 1910–17
Declared purpose
Railway station
Today
Survives, still a station
Build time
About 7 years
Region
Asia
Architect of record
Arthur Benison Hubback, architect: about 39 when credited (1910, born 1871). Build time on record: about 7 years.All architects of record →
On the list as
Documented

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A Moorish-style station with domes and minarets.

  1. Minarets for trains

    Domes and minaret-like towers on a railway station.

  2. Replaced older

    It replaced an older station on the same site.

  3. Architect of record

    Arthur Benison Hubback (born 1871) was about 39 when credited with the design in 1910. The Architects of Record page asks how often a young or little-known name delivers a landmark.

Questions worth asking

  • Why dress a station like a mosque?

Possible original uses

  • Station

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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