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Ipoh City Hall

Keywords : Colonial Building, Palladian architectures

Site common nameIpoh City Hall
Type of artworkArchitecture
Village-
Province/CityIpoh
StatePerak
CountryMalaysia
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : 4.597222
Long : 101.074444

History of productionThe Ipoh City Hall was built in 1914 by Arthur Benison Hubback, the British architect who had designed the Ipoh train station before. This place was once the post office and was turned into the city hall.
ArtThis building uses a Palladian plan with the front porch and wings on both sides symmetrically. This plan suit the government place. The overall elements of this are in Classic style like pediments, arches and Doric pillars. However, this building has a strange-looking design with the porch on the oblique axis which is a gimmick that makes this building interesting.
PeriodHistorical Period
Art periodBritish Colonization Period
Age20th Century A.D.

Type of LicenseAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
RightsPrincess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation2015-02-00
Record creatorChedha Tingsanchali