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Soori Penang is a unique and deeply personal project by award-winning architect Soo K. Chan, rooted in his ancestral heritage within George Town’s UNESCO-listed heart. Celebrated for its thoughtful restoration and design narrative, the hotel is praised as a unique convergence of living history, architectural poetry, and cultural revival.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL / 2015

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Architect Soo K. Chan’s inspiration is his childhood home in a Unesco World Heritage Site

PLENTY OF PEOPLE SPEND THEIR formative years in beautiful settings. But few can make the claim that architect Soo K. Chan can—to have been raised in a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Mr. Chan, 53, was born and raised in Penang, a Malaysian island that was an important stop for spice merchants in 18th and 19th centuries. Mr. Chan’s maternal side, the Khoo clan, settled on the island and in the mid-1800s built Khoo Kongsi, a compound with gilded temple and central granite square from which the clan’s row houses radiated.

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