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Since posting yesterday's photo I've been poring over Google Maps of Kuala Lumpur trying to figure out where I took the photos. I recall I ate at the Station Hotel the night I was there and that I walked, so the put me somewhere in Chinatown.
You can get a hint of the architecture in this historic hotel from this image. The wooden structure on the left is actually a bird cage. There were a number of colorful small birds within both this enclosure and a similar one on the other side of the lobby. As mentioned before, I'm not an ornithologist so I'll just stick with 'birds'.
This building sports the rounded corners typical of many of the Art Deco buildings in South Beach. This particular building was designed by Albert Anis in 1937. I was partly drawn by the architecture and partly by the orange and white paint scheme.
This is a shot of the rear of the hotel. I like the strong lines in the architecture here. Since I like saturated colors, I've upped the saturation in this image. People familiar with the building will recognize the colors as being more muted in real life.