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KH Tower
KH Tower (''Malay: Menara KH'', formerly known as Promet Tower) is a 36-storey, tall skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r .... Between 1983 and 1984, it was the tallest skyscraper in Malaysia, the second to surpass the height of . It was also noted to be the first glass-cladded skyscraper in the country. See also * List of tallest buildings in Malaysia * List of tallest buildings in Kuala Lumpur References Buildings and structures in Kuala Lumpur Office buildings completed in 1983 1983 establishments in Malaysia {{Malaysia-struct-stub ...
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Malay Language
Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi: , Rencong: ) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of the Philippines and Thailand. Altogether, it is spoken by 290 million people (around 260 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard named "Indonesian") across Maritime Southeast Asia. As the or ("national language") of several states, Standard Malay has various official names. In Malaysia, it is designated as either ("Malaysian Malay") or also ("Malay language"). In Singapore and Brunei, it is called ("Malay language"). In Indonesia, an autonomous normative variety called (" Indonesian language") is designated the ("unifying language" or lingua franca). However, in areas of Central to Southern Sumatra, where vernacular varieties of Malay are indigenous, Indonesians refer to the language as , and consider it to be one of their regiona ...
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DBKL Tower
The Kuala Lumpur City Hall ( ms, Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, abbreviated DBKL) is the city council which administers the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 1 February 1972. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 243 square kilometres. The council consists of the mayor plus fifteen members of the city advisory board appointed to serve a one-year term by the Minister of Territories. The current mayor of Kuala Lumpur is Mahadi Che Ngah, who has been in office since 1 October 2020. History The agency was formerly known as Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council ( Malay: ''Majlis Perbandaran Kuala Lumpur''). During British colonial times and early independence, Kuala Lumpur had been the capital of the country as well as the state of Selangor. On 1 April 1961, the name changed into Kuala Lumpur Federal Capital Commission ( Malay: ''Suruhanjaya Ibu Kota Persekutuan''). Kuala Lumpur later achieved city status ...
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Dayabumi Complex
The Dayabumi Complex () is a major landmark in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It houses several commercial facilities and is one of the earliest skyscrapers in the city. History Previously, it was a site of Malayan Railway workshops and depots from the 1900s until 1981. Construction began on 14 February 1982. Central Market, which is near the banks of Klang River avoided demolition during Dayabumi Complex's construction. The building was completed in February 1984. It was owned by Urban Development Authority of Malaysia (UDA). However, in the year 2005, the building was taken over by the KLCC Properties Holdings Berhad (KLCCP), a member of Petronas Group. Dayabumi Complex was designed by Arkitek MAA and BEP Akitek under the joint venture firm BEP+MAA. The landscaped public realm was designed by the urbanist Peter Verity of PDRconsultants . The building was built by Kumagai Gumi Malaysia. Dayabumi Complex structures *Dayabumi Tower (35 storeys) *General Post Office *City Point sho ...
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Kuala Lumpur
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Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime Malaysia–Thailand border, border with Thailand and Maritime boundary, maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia, and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, the country's largest city, and the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, legislative branch of the Government of Malaysia, federal government. The nearby Planned community#Planned capitals, planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital, which represents the seat of both the Government of Malaysia#Executive, executive branch (the Cabine ...
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List Of Tallest Buildings In Malaysia
This is a list of tallest skyscrapers in Malaysia. The skyscrapers are ranked by structural height. Most of Malaysia's tallest buildings can be found in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. According to the World Tallest 50 Urban Agglomeration 2010 Projection by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), Kuala Lumpur was ranked 10th among cities to have most buildings above 100 metres (330 feet), with a combined height of from its 244 high rise buildings. The Merdeka 118 is the tallest building in the country and Southeast Asia, also the second tallest building in the world, once completed in 2022, it will be the country's capital center attention, it became the tallest building in Malaysia in 2020 at the height of , the height of the building is . List of cities by number of completed skyscrapers above 100m and their tallest building This is a list of cities by number of completed or topped out skyscrapers as of October 2021. The majority of international organ ...
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List Of Tallest Buildings In Kuala Lumpur
According to a 2009 estimate by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Kuala Lumpur was projected to rank 10th among the cities with the most completed buildings above 100 metres with a combined height of 34,035 metres from its 244 high rise buildings in 2010. As of 2019, the city of Kuala Lumpur has over 1,900 completed high-rise buildings, of which over 700 are buildings standing taller than 100 m (328 ft); 170 are buildings over 150 m (492 ft), 42 are buildings over 200 m (656 ft) and 5 are buildings over 300 m (984 ft). The majority of them are located in the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), Golden Triangle, Mont' Kiara and Old Downtown. The tallest building in Kuala Lumpur is Merdeka 118, which has 118 floors and stands 678.9 m (2,227 ft) in height. The history of skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur began with the completion of the 73 m (239 ft) 18-story, Lee Yan Lian Building in 1945. Though not the city's first high-rise, it was the first building to surpass the 41 m ...
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Buildings And Structures In Kuala Lumpur
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much art ...
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Office Buildings Completed In 1983
An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks. In law, a company or organization has offices in any place where it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of (for example) a storage silo rather than an establishment with desk-and-chair. An office is also an architectural and design phenomenon: ranging from a small office such as a bench in the corner of a small business of extremely small size (see small office/home office), through entire floors of buildings, up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirely ...
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