The current condition of the Loke Mansion is a little bit different from the first time when it was designed by Loke Yew. Tht is the fact that we have to accept. However we also have to admit that the current condition is nott really that bad. It still has the almost same architectural charecteristics of the original building. We must say that it still has the same spirit. Teh spirit of the collision between the west and the east. However still we have to highlightthe fact that the new renovation has introduced one new element that is not really going parralel to the classic and vintage fetures of the building. The introduction of air conditioning units might be necessery due to the weather condition that we have here in Malaysia. In the early years of the building when t was first designed by Loke yew, it has alreadydesigned to adopt to the hot and humid weather of Kuala Lumpur. In tht case we say that the building is already well designed to counter the heat of tropical sun. By introducing the air condition unit, it just made the overall function of the building changed and the features are not according to how it was planned to be in the first place. People from inside the building can no longer appreciate and experience the building from within. They can no longer feel the spirit of the building as how it was intended to be felt. We just think that air conditioning are taking away the spirit of the building. making a gap between the inside and the outside of the building. People started to be separated from the nature. The outside world surrounding the building ia now alien to them. It also did the same to the inner space of the building. People from inside is now disconnected from the outside wolrd. people from outside can no longer reached in to the inner space of the building. All the glasses and steel became the prison entrapping the building itself inside its own body. Thank You.
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