Market Square Clock Tower (6 July 2016)
Market Square Clock Tower (GPS: 3.14736, 101.69594), or
Menara Jam Medan Pasar, is a clock tower at
Medan Pasar,
Kuala Lumpur. It forms the centrepiece of the old market square. The Market Square Clock Tower was erected in 1937 in the Art Deco style fashionable in those days, and finished with Shanghai plaster. The architect who designed it was Arthur Oakley Coltman. He also designed the
Oriental Building on
Jalan Tun Perak, the
Odean Cinema on
Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
Wisma Ekran on
Jalan Tangsi, the
Rubber Research Institute of Malaya Building on
Jalan Ampang, and the
Lee Rubber Building on
Jalan Tun HS Lee, among others.
Market Square, Kuala Lumpur (6 July 2016)
Market Square Clock Tower
The Market Square Clock Tower is
on the map of the Historic Buildings of Kuala Lumpur
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