Careful dismantling of Rumah Pusaka directed by Tan in 2015.
IT IS no urban myth that a Malay house built in 1926 managed to stand its ground for almost a century in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, as a city grew and just kept growing around it.
It became the sole wooden structure in a sea of brick buildings and skyscrapers, and was the only fully residential unit inhabited by a lone old lady who refused to sell even when offered millions of ringgit.
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