TheABHubbackProjectJun 51 minHow much was $1 in £?Between the 1880s and 1967, official currencies used by the Selangor State Government were initially a variety of silver dollars; Mexican...
TheABHubbackProjectMay 234 minNOT BY HUBBACK: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE KUALA LUMPUR No one knows who designed Kuala Lumpur’s Government Printing Office. Guide books have credited Arthur Charles Alfred Norman as the archit...
TheABHubbackProjectMay 135 minLetters from Lieut-Col. A.B HubbackA.B Hubback was on a voyage to England with his family when World War I officially begun on 28 July 1914. Upon arrival in August 1914, he...
TheABHubbackProjectMay 31 minNew Government Offices: Spatial Usage in 1897If you've ever wondered how the 'New Government Offices' (Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad) was used when it was just completed in April 1897,...
TheABHubbackProjectMay 21 minSite Proposed for the FMS Survey Office Building in 1908In 1908, before the FMS Survey Office project at Java Street was given a go ahead, another site opposite the Sanitary Board was put into ...
TheABHubbackProjectApr 194 minArchitect Thomas SteeleSome of A.B Hubback’s design schemes were completed only after the First World War. He had decided to stay on in the UK, and so his desig...
TheABHubbackProjectApr 20, 20181 minKL High 1897-2017Hubback's work also made an impact on KL's skyline. The Government Office on Jalan Raja (Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad), with its clock tow...
TheABHubbackProjectJan 21, 20183 minGovernment Offices, Kuala Lumpur: The 1893 ProposalKuala Lumpur history buffs would know of the Neo Classical design proposals that preceded the present Saracenic/Mughal-eclectic styled Ba...