The Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur was formally credited to A. C. Norman, with R. A. J. Bidwell doing much of the actual design and A. B. Hubback designing the fixtures. The British colonial administration was the client, and the building housed the Federated Malay States secretariat. The foundation stone was laid on October 6, 1894, and it opened on April 4, 1897.
The article calls the style Indo-Saracenic, Neo-Mughal or Moorish, with red brick and white plaster banding. The clock tower is 135 feet (41 m) tall in the text, while the infobox says 40 m. The facade is 450 feet (137.2 m) long, with three copper-clad onion domes.
The spires were removed in 1939 as an air raid precaution. It housed superior courts from 1978 until 2003. It now holds galleries and offices. The article gives no hours.
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