114 Year Old Pudu Jail Demolished To Make Way For Shopping Mall

9th September 2010 (Updated) | Category: Architecture Rumbling
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Don’t worry; the Pudu Jail is only 114 year old. Just like the Bok House, age is not a contributing factor. As long as it is has nothing to do with the official religion or the native’s culture, demolish it! Rename all the roads and cities!

Work has started on the demolition of part of the landmark Pudu Jail, to make way for a road expansion and tunnel project. UDA Holdings Sdn Bhd had bought over the land from the government and they are planning to build a shopping mall on the location. – MalaysiaInsider

Yes, we need more shopping malls!

The board of architects in Malaysia couldn’t care much. I bet they are scrambling for a piece of the new project. So much talk on architecture and all those bullshits. They could have issued a stern warning to all architects, get yourself involved in the project and your license will be revoked.

While I was studying in Perth, Australia, I visited Fremantle Prison. It’s an amazing experience.

The problem with Asian, especially Malaysian is their mentality. They have this weird vision of what makes a good city – Doric Columns, Neo-Classical Buildings, Roman Architecture and all those western stuff, not to mention the cold weather.

Wordpress Tags: Bukit Bintang, Jail Malaysia, Prison Malaysia, Pudu Jail, Pudu Jail Demolished, Shopping Mall Proposal, UDA Holdings

12 Comments

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stan-melb
on October 18th, 2009
1
Another history piece is gone from the heritage list of KL..
Malaysian architect registered are just not creative & innovative to move the value chain up in designing something different.
Here there shopping Mall, but how much can you buy in shopping mall? besides walking windows shopping & eye washing…
per capita, our architect in Malaysia just do not want to think different but so solely to the idea of shopping mall rather improving the quality of life.
Its not i`m against PAM or any well known architect, its just that PAM had too much of nothing status. Besides, conserve architecture, most are destroyed. What are Architect to teach their history & cultural value in future?
admin
on October 19th, 2009
2
exactly, PAM or LAM could have issued a warning to all the architects in Malaysia, “get yourself involved in the project on that piece of land and your license will be revoked.” Simple as that, the piece of land is as good as useless. Why don’t they do it? They can, but they won’t.
Most of the architect in Malaysia just can’t wait to grab a piece of the project, its all about money and yet they have the ‘guts and balls’ to talk about architecture in all those forums they organized.
Sick! P** and L** should stop talking cock and walk the talk!
sirsc
on October 20th, 2009
3
mate, wait! arent ya in Msia? LOL.
look, the AEC chain in msia from design(architecture) is seriously always override by some marketing or some other people from overseas on how to set our countries trend about. Instead of being a trendsetter, Msia architecture be more of trend follower.
I don’t know about shits in PAM & LAM, or name it PA-LAM, but its to know that this 2 organization is the bottleneck of bureaucracy ideology in Malaysia Architecture.
Msia like to talk alot shits but never walk the talk. That is the problem, besides having reshape Msia to be better like SG in term of Architecture, instead we followed SG & their architecture economic become to saturated.Why?
By observation of Msia not just architecture can tell a lot of stories. Best one is Tourism not understanding their country architecture history. SHAME MALAYSIA.
eric
on March 7th, 2010
4
why people here so racist!?
you dont care about the prison..you just want to bash the government(malays)
that place is extremely strategic…
i agreed in keeping it but at least 20% or by most 50%, 20% of that building is suitable for a museum..while preserving all of its a waste,keeping the main part is important.
Liao Yuen Herng
on June 21st, 2010
5
The government is a hippocrite. They rebuilding walls of A Famosa in Melaka and destroying walls of Pudu Jail at the same time. Seems that all the negative feedbacks from the public do not go into their heads. I went to Fremantle prison too and it was awesome, too bad Malaysia Government is not capable of making it a museum.
Excon
on June 21st, 2010
6
I served time there and am glad to see that hellhole torn down.
Pak Zed
on June 21st, 2010
7
We are lacking in tourism products for visitors to see and yet we demolish a jewel that can be made into one. Not everyone wants to see The Twin Towers. Pudu Jail with all its history can be an attraction if it is turned into a tourism product.
What senseless leaders we have here.
Choy
on June 21st, 2010
8
The demolition of the Pudu jail is a superb move by the government. It doesn’t make any sense having a jail right in the middle of a mega city even though it holds a piece of history
sandra
on June 27th, 2010
9
STUPID IDIOT!!!
sandra
on June 27th, 2010
10
this is ridiculous! the goverment is demolishing all the historical sites in malaysia!! then why are we learning malaysian history in school? seriously. stupid, isn’t it?! I’M FAILING HISTORY IN SCHOOL!!!!!! cacat brainless idiots.
Concerned Malaysian
on July 4th, 2010
11
We DO NOT NEED another shopping mall!! 66 shopping malls are located in KL itself and u are saying that is not enough??!! What is becoming of our materialistic society?! You a not only demolishing a historical site, but a part of Malaysia containing memories, maybe not the best of memories but memories nonetheless. I personally think this is preposterous act showing what the majority of malaysians value more which is obviously material over history.
Keng
on July 16th, 2010
12
At least keep the gallows and place them in the middle of a new park in the new development to remind everyone about the penalty for committing murder, drug trafficking, etc.