The Bok House 1926 – 2006

December 18, 2006 · Filed Under Architecture Debates · Comment
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The Bok House 1926 - 2006

The Bok House – (better known as Le Coq D’Or), is situated on 121, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. It was designed by Swan & Maclaren, built in 1926 and completed in 1929, for Chua Cheng Bok, who is famed as the founder of Cycle and Carriage.

There is a beautifully romantic legend attached to its building where Cheng Bok wanted to marry the daughter of a rich man who lived on Ampang Road. As her father did not consider him good enough because of his lowly origins, to impress, or perhaps to spite him, Cheng Bok built an even grander house opposite. One story goes that the father relented, and Cheng Bok got his bride. Others say she married someone else. Read More.

Cheng Bok house demolish

Rest in peace Bok House 1929 – 2006. The proposed 60 story building shall never replace your once beautiful history. Some Quotes:

“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible” – George Santayana

Image Source: Azrul K. Abdullah