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Industrial and commercial architecture

Johanna Varghese and Simon Keogh

With the opening of Malaysia's first combined retail, office and residential outlets in the early 1970s, residents of Kuala Lumpur were presented with a new alternative to the existing main street shophouse environment. The challenge for architects since then has been to design complexes which meet their users' needs efficiently and which offer an intelligent response to the cultural context in which they are built.

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  • Industrial architecture
  • The decline of the shophouse
Lot 10

The inside of Lot 10 in Kuala Lumpur bears little relation to the outside. The plan is sophisticated and simple.