Pasar Seni @ Central Market

21:49 28th December 2012 - the journey started from YMCA,

Kuala Lumpur by a bus to reach the station which located

right outside the main entrance of Central Market

managed to have the chance to visit Central Market or it

is also known as Pasar Seni in Bahasa Malaysia with the

teens from Team Green Hong Kong, who came along 

for their Malaysia Rainforest Exposure Trip

Pasar Seni (Central Market)

This art deco building by architecture T.Y. Lee 

began constructing in 1936. The layout is splayed to 

align with the street pattern. No two façades are 

alike but the whole is held together by unifying 

treatment of the windows and doors. The stepped 

entrance design as well as the strong moulded frieze, 

which runs along just below roof-line, is repeated 

on the sides. Art Deco ornamentation in the form 

of wrought iron panels of interlocking rings, above 

doorways. The windows and skylight are "Carolex"

glass, which transmits only 20% of the sun's heat but 

admits 60% daylight. For years, the Market was 

Kuala Lumpur's largest single room, measuring 

123.7m long, 60.8m wide and 7.9 high

(407ft x 200ft x 26ft).

Pardon me to explain that the term "Pasar Seni" wasn't

the direct translation from Central Market, but "Pasar

Seni" actually meant "Art Market". Central Market was

the actual old name, and it was a structure which is

noticeably old, but unfortunately the current one has

been renovated and it looked much alike a mall

Central Market is well known of wide diversity of

high quality handicrafts produced by local craftsmen.

They range from the traditional native bead-works;

traditionally hand weaved gilded fabric known as

"Songket", artistic wood carvings from the natives of

Borneo to the vibrant and colourful "Batik" cloth

i personally still prefer the old structure that has

the diverse culture of Malaysia, which consists of

The Straits Chinese, Lorong Melayu and Lorong India

and the price of those days were reasonable for a

tourist to buy souvenirs which anything that they

can think as memento, key chains, miniatures, 

'I Love KL' or 'I Love Malaysia's T-shirt

The building is now located at Jalan Tun Tan Cheng

Lok (Foch Avenue) and the pedestrian street is only

section of Jalan Hang Kasturi (Rodger Street), which

is few minutes away from Jalan Petaling, which is

also well known as Petaling Street (Chinatown)