Date:  Wednesday, 17th April, 2019

Time:  10.00 for a 10.30 start

Place:  Badan Warisan, 2 Jalan Stonor (Opposite the Raja Chulan Hotel)

Cost:   Members RM15, Guests RM25

Elizabeth Cardosa is the Executive Director of Badan Warisan Malaysia (the Heritage of Malaysia Trust), an NGO committed to the preservation and conservation of Malaysia's built heritage. Over the past eighteen years she has had the privilege of working with committed conservationists and supporters of heritage in a wide range of projects throughout the country.

Today Elizabeth will give an illustrated talk "Building Up, Tearing Down: the Whoops factor" which will be a potted history of heritage conservation efforts which Badan Warisan Malaysia has been involved in over the past 30 years. Starting from 1982 with efforts to save the Hotel Majestic and Central Market from demolition, to restoration projects such as No.8 Heeren Street in Malacca and the Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur; through the tragic loss of Eastern Hotel in 1990 to the wrecking ball, and the now very controversial conversion of century old shophouses into “birds’ nest houses” for this multi-million dollar generating industry, to the degeneration of Malaysia’s vernacular architecture from neglect and ignorance, Badan Warisan Malaysia's mission remains firmly fixed on giving Malaysia's past a future.

Please note that this lecture will not be held at the Meritz Condominiums but will be held at home of Badan Warisan