Category: Architecture
Morning View at the Penang Bridge
George Town Street View: An Old Facade
Light Street: Bank Negara Building
A street view of Light Street with the Bank Negara (National Bank) at the foreground, and the Penang state court house at the farther end. The Bank Negara building was reportedly built with the Brutalist architecture style in the late 1970s.
Penang Perspective: A Portrait of the Acheen Street Mosque Tower
A view of the Acheen Street Mosque‘s turret as well as the popular ‘A Boy Reaching Up’ mural of Ernest Zacharevic at the wall of the house on the right.
Farquhar Street: Old Pedestrian Bridge
The old ‘Honda’ pedestrian bridge at Farquhar Street, George Town. Farquhar Street was named after Robert Townsend Farquhar, the Lieutenant Governor of Penang during the 1800s. The pedestrian bridge is just right outside St. Xavier’s Institution.
George Town Street View: A Rusty Alleyway Door
Stewart Lane: Joss Sticks Stall No. 5
A photo of an old roadside stall selling joss sticks and other traditional Chinese prayer materials. Joss sticks are a type of incense typically used for prayers in a Chinese temple. This stall is just one of the several lining up along the Stewart Lane side of the old Kuan Yin Temple.
George Town Street View: Window Blue
Buckingham Street View
Buckingham Street (or Lebuh Buckingham) is one of the early streets in Penang, and is so named after the Buckingham Palace in England.