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Ipoh Train Station

Keywords : Colonial Building, Palladian architectures

Site common nameIpoh Train Station
Type of artworkArchitecture
Village-
Province/CityIpoh
StatePerak
CountryMalaysia
Geographic Coordinates
Decimal degree		Lat : 4.597243
Long : 101.073089

History of productionFundamentally, this train station was built as the hospital but has been turned into the train station afterwards. This train station was built in 19197 by Arthur Benison Hubback, the British architect who designed many government buildings in Malaysia.
ArtThis building use Palladian plan. There are front porches with wings on both sides symmetrically. This plan is suitable for the government building. The overall elements of this building are in classic style; for example, the pediment, arch and Doric pillar with the dome cover the central porch. However, this building has a strange-looking design on the pediment which make the central pediment and the side pediments to be different. The details of the upper and lower floors which are different from each other, as well.
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