Cultural influences in Malaysia

Ipoh town hall

KL stock exchange building 

 Doric Columns of Greek Culure

The photo on top shows a town hall in ipoh and KL stock exchange building, Malaysia. i found the middle part of theses building is quite similar to the ancient Greek architectures. Obviously, the doric columns they applied on this hall is almost the same with those ancient temple in Greek. In this case, i believe the doric columns not only uses for display purpose to highlight the buildings but rather in actual way as the columns could support the structures of the building. It didn't really surprise me when i first saw the greek culture was blended into these building, we can found that it's quite common in Malaysia due to the multicultural in our country. I think the buildings actually looks very nice with other culture's elements blended on it. 

  

on the left is the photo of the Putrajaya bridge pillar, from the designs of this structure we can actually recognize some examples of iconic columns, the top part of the columns has been decorated with some stylized ornaments. in addition, i realized that the mixture of different cultures' elements actually can create something 'originally FRESH', something traditional but contain the new issues at the same time. This pillar is quite a good example by topping the Greek columns with some Malay traditional's roof.  

Putrajaya bridge pillar

Kuching Royal golf club

 Pyramid

Pyramid, an example of ancient Egyptian culture we found in this golf club which located in Kuching. Only the top part was built in the pyramid's shape. In the ancient periods, pyramids were built as tomb for pharaohs and their queens. In this case, i pretty sure that the architects of the golf club are definitely not sharing the main purpose with the Egyptian. As i mentioned, the pyramids were built for the pharaohs, in other word, only the royal bloods could enter to the pyramids. I believe the architects are trying to link this point to this their designs in order to make the golf club looks GRAND!! 

          Shah Alam Stadium

Compared to the Greek and Egypt cultures, the stadiums are more similar to Rome culture indeed. i wonder is the Greek theatre looks exactly the same with the Colosseum which located in Rome? Anyway, those architectures are just sharing the same purpose which is entertain people. The only difference is the appearance, the cultures' elements of the buildings.