Sultan Ibrahim Building
Hilltop colonial-Malay government tower of stone and steel, once Malaya's tallest building.
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This guide to the Sultan Ibrahim Building in Johor Bahru starts on Bukit Timbalan around nineteen forty, as a steel frame shipped from Singapore rises into what was meant to be Johor's proudest government tower. It then follows the building into January nineteen forty-two, when General Yamashita Tomoyuki's army reached the Straits of Johor and needed somewhere to plan. Stand where you can see the tower and the stone facing below it.
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