One of the finest Art Deco enclaves in Asia - Burmah Square behind Glen Eagles Hospital in George Town, Penang - is planned to be destroyed by a 27 story high rise complex with shopping malls and apartments.
It is one of a kind as most homes there are still intact and have not been changed since the 1920s. The last known collection of Art Deco homes is in Shanghai, but Penang's is much bigger in scale and still in mint condition.

The planned construction is about to destroy the neighbourhood's charm with its small streets, which obviously will congest them, but also due to the fact that the neighbourhood is built on a swamp and the new project has to dry out a significant part of it most of the 1920 buildings will lose their footings and are very likely to be irrevocably damaged.
Furthermore the ground water still has to find its way to the beach which might add significant pressure to the foundations of the high rise buildings on Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah whose foundations were not constructed with hindsight of a project like that. They might fall down.

Please help us save Penang's heritage and stop this project before it is too late.