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The Old Charm Of George Town

I was quite shock by the first project given in the first day of new semester.
The task was to create a poster promoting the old charm of George Town. 
Seven heritage buildings in the George Town World Heritage core zone were to be selected to be the main attractions of the poster.
The task was a group project of three. 
I was not having a really deep exploration to George Town on last semester since I was bombarded by the rushing studio projects.
Soon after the morning session of studio, my studio masters allowed us to have a self visit to George Town for collecting information and data.
George Town is really a great place to be visited.
Filling with heritage buildings of various style from different era, fusion yet harmony.
I felt like I was falling into a time machine and back to ancient time.

After a lot of discussions and rational thinking, my group had finally come out a concept about the poster design. 
We imagined ourselves as the tourists so that we could visualise what will attract people's attentions and what they would want to know more about Georgetown.
We applied the concept of map: starting from Armenian Street to Kapitan Keling Mosque, Pinang Peranakan Museum, St George's Church,Victoria Memorial Clock Tower, Fort Cornwallis and Church Street Pier and lastly back to Armenian Street. 
We chose these buildings or streetscape due to several reasons: architectural elements and cultural issues.
As from a tourist's perspective: I would like to explore the world famous street art series by Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic. There are a few of the series can be found along Armenian Street. The other buildings have their own unique architectural and cultural elements that we want to promote to the public.
Armenian Street
Street Art, old chinese shop houses with unique eclectic styles and five foot way
Kapitan Keling Mosque
Moghul-style domes adorned with crescents and stars sitting on equisite Gothic, Moorish, Roman arches and towering minaret
Pinang Peranakan Mansion
Typical Baba house of eclectic style, incorporating chinese carved-wood, english tiles, scottish ironworks, fusion of eastern and western elements
Fort Cornwallis
Star shape structure
Queen Victoria Memorial Clock Tower
Moorish style architecture, base tier in octagonal shape, top tier is rounded with Roman pillar and roofed with dome cupola
St George's Church
Oldest Anglican church in South Asia, Georgian Palladian architecture, Greecian columns, Octagonal-shaped steeple which is visible from far and forms apex of roof, gabled roof instead of flat roof to suit the weather of Penang Island
Church Street Pier
Colonial style and built on stilt

There are way too much attractive buildings in George Town but we could only chose a few from them. Do explore more of them when you visit to George Town!





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