Once a thriving wet market during the early days of 1900's, it was being transformed into what we know today as the Cultural Market -Pasar Seni in our local language.
1970s- was the building boom and many of Malaysia's historic buildings have been demolished. The adaptive reuse of the wet market took place in 1985 .
At that time, a group of concerned Malaysians and expatriates were in the process of forming the country's non-governmental organsation for the conservation of heritage buildings to be called Badan Warisan Malaysia (Heritage of Malaysia Trust). The main objective of Badan Warisan Malaysia is to promote the preservation of those buildings deemed by the council of the Badan to be part of the heritage of the country for the benefit and education of Malaysians.
CM - the 50+ year old wet market of Kuala Lumpur was saved from demolition at the last minute and converted into a cultural market.
CM- marks the earliest example of a private developer otbtaining the lease of a large state-owned property, retaining it, and reusing it for commercial purposes.
To retain its typical Art Deco architecture, and the spatial quality of the large single-storey box, the new shops were arranged in discrete clusters, away from the surrounding walls and roof. Upper level shops and restaurantes were linked by three bridges and a hydraulic lift was introduced in the centre of the mall. Small kiosks selling arts nd crafts reused the old wet market concrete stalls on the ground floor and artists were invited to set up their easels.
"TO ACHIEVE ... STOP LOOKING FOR A QUICK AND EASY SHORT CUT !
TO ACHIEVE ... START PUTTING FORTH THE DILIGENT, SUSTAINED EFFORT THAT WIL CREATE
REAL VALUE " Ralph Marston
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