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The Lam Looking Building
The photograph shows the Lam Looking Building built for Towkay Lam Look Ing in 1933. For many years it housed the Celestial Hotel and Dance Hall on the floors above the ground floor Lam Looking Bazaar on Jalan Laxamana (Laxamana Road). It was built as 'A stylish Art Deco building to the design of Danish architect Berthel Michael Iversen and the construction started in 1931. It featured sweeping horizontal lines, with Early Modernist stair-wells.
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