Macalister Road, George Town
Macalister Road is a major thoroughfare in the city of George Town within the Malaysian state of Penang. The road stretches out of Magazine Circus next to Komtar towards Western Road, a leafier enclave within the city centre.
Macalister Road, George Town
Formerly the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, this building has been converted into a branch of the Penang State Museum.
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Centre
DISTED College was founded in 1987 as the first Penang-based private tertiary institution.
The Tun Abdul Razak Complex, formerly the Penang Urban Centre, is a civic complex within the central business district of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. At the time of its completion in 1985, Komtar Tower, at 231.7 metres (760 ft), was the second tallest building in Asia and the tallest in Southeast Asia until 1986 when it was surpassed by One Raffles Place in Singapore. Other buildings in the complex include a hotel building, four shopping malls, an urban park, and a central transportation hub. The complex contains 1,420,000 square feet (132,000 m2) of office and retail space on a 27-acre (11 ha) superblock. It currently houses the administrative offices of the Penang state government and the chief minister of Penang.
Komtar Tower in 2024.
Bus route 101 at the first lane of the terminal
Windsor Building and Capitol Theatre, c.1937.
Lim Chong Eu, chief minister of Penang, was highly influential in the development of Komtar.