KL City Gallery
Heritage gallery inside a Moorish-Revival colonial landmark, telling the story of a capital's rise.
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About this audio guide
This guide to KL City Gallery in Kuala Lumpur is anchored in the Sultan Abdul Samad Building itself, completed in 1897 to house British colonial offices in a style borrowing from North African mosques and Mughal palaces. It follows the building through sixty years as the seat of a foreign administration, up to the midnight of August 30, 1957, when its clock tower watched a flag come down and another rise. Historians have a nickname for the style: blood and bandages, for its red brick walls and white plaster trim.
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