Tag: street
George Town Street View: Town Hall Park
A small park featuring wooden sculpture located between the Penang Town Hall building and Dewan Sri Pinang.
Penang Street Art (The Lego Panda Mural)
This mural was spotted at an alley along the side wall of the Visit Malaysia Tourism Penang office at Beach Street.
Link to the mural’s location; http://travel2penang.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/penang-street-art-map-part-8/
German Heritage Trail in Penang (Part 2)
Another German Heritage Trail signboard at the Esplanade promenade area, part of an initiative to highlight more than 10 sites in George Town.
Penang Street Art (Pink Monster)
Spotted this ‘monster’ at a parking lot in Chulia Street.
George Town Street View: Kampung Kolam
Kampung Kolam is actually used to be a small village that was named after a large granite tank that was present back in the old days of the house of Kapitan Keling. Kapitan Keling was the head of the local Tamil Muslim community during that time and the tank had been supplying water to the poor back then.
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.
George Town Street View: A Tribute Bus Stop
A bus stop with wishes and prayers written or signed by the public for the lost of the Malaysian airplane MH17 some time back.
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.