from the you-might-want-to-avoid-the-stairs dept.
World's second tallest building tops out in Malaysia:
The spire of a soaring 118-story skyscraper has topped out at over 2,227 feet above Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.
Set to become the world's second tallest building upon its completion next year, Merdeka 118 now stands higher than China's 2,073-foot Shanghai Tower and is dwarfed only by the Burj Khalifa[*] in Dubai.
"This is not only a great achievement in the field of engineering," he told reporters . "But it also further strengthens Malaysia's position as a modern and developed country."
Comprising 3.1 million square feet of floor space, more than half of which will be offered as offices, the tower will also house a mall, a mosque, a Park Hyatt hotel and Southeast Asia's highest observation deck. The wider four-acre site will also contain public spaces and a park at ground level.
Set in a historic part of Kuala Lumpur, the skyscraper overlooks the Stadium Merdeka, where former leader Tunku Abdul Rahman declared Malaysian independence in 1957.
[...] The Australian architecture practice behind the project, Fender Katsalidis, said the triangular glass planes on the building's facade were inspired by patterns found in Malaysian arts and crafts. The design also "symbolically (represents) the rich cultural mix that defines the people of the country," the firm said in a press release.
In a statement, one of the company's founding partners, Karl Fender, added that the building was designed to enrich "the social energy and cultural fabric of the city."
[*] Burj Khalifa on Wikipedia:
The Burj Khalifa [...] is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile) and a roof height (excluding antenna, but including a 244 m spire) of 828 m (2,717 ft), the Burj Khalifa has been the tallest structure and building in the world since its topping out in 2009, supplanting Taipei 101, the previous holder of that status.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:38AM (1 child)
"Malaysia erects world's second largest penis substitute".
Admittedly the Burj is still bigger in the ongoing skyscraper dicksize war, but it's also a bit of a needle-dick.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:54PM
Why is it only Asians that compete in these kind of dick size competitions? Blacks know they're the biggest, so don't bother, and whites know that's not what the ladie$ want anyway. Any more questions?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @11:32AM (1 child)
Another useless [second largest] building, to house more useless [second largest] capitalistic monkey hive garbage.
Ya, what fantastic news.
Humans continue business as usual that will be great for the enviornment with its [second largest] contribution to waste.
Good Luck with that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:56PM
to be fair, malaysia is already a shithole so a little more shitholiness won't budge the needle a lot
(Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday December 07 2021, @12:06PM (2 children)
"But it also further strengthens Malaysia's position as a modern and developed country."
"The Australian architecture practice behind the project, ... Karl Fender"
Yeah, right. IF you're going to dick-wave for national pride with such a project, do it indigenously. Not with Architecture from Australia, Chips from China, or Rockets from Russia.
After WWII, the playfield was reasonably level. Yet I can think only of two places that made it to true "first world" levels since, South Korea and Taiwan. Both rather isolated, completely battered from the war, but - coincidence? - former "anschluss" territory of Japan. Why is that so?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @02:28PM
mod +
[ stamps hand repeatedly on desk ]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:51PM
> Why is that so?
I believe it is because the White man brought civilization to these former shitholes. That's what I heard on talk radio *dog whistle*.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @01:29PM (3 children)
Malaysia is a beautiful country, cliced and diced with unplanned roads and poor conditions.
If there was auto crash, they erect a platform and place the crash car on it.
Sewers where open rain gutters running in front of shops with a wooden plank to cross it to and from the street.
Power was "guaranteed" for 8hrs per day.
Was staying a hotel in KL. They had a VP in charge of disasters. He main job was to walking some morning, and pull the main power switch and force every one to work 24hrs with main power, only generators and UPS. The computer and cah registers systems were on UPS that filled a LARGE room and can keep it all running for 6hrs (they were a priority power site). The generators kicked in in 20mins. Supplying power to 2 elevators (out of 8), the UPS and safety lights in the rooms (one per room) and mini-frig.
Well thought out master plan.
Elevators stopped on all floors, evens going up and odds going down. So fastest way to your room on a odd floor, was go to even floor above and walk down 1 flight in stairwells.
That one light in the room was great too. right above the mini-frig. which was at the juntion of two halls on to the bed area and other to the bathroom. (high end hotel). Just that light would not light up anything in windowless bathroom and is on the other side of wall, so does not light anything in bed area. But you can seat there and clear out the frig!
I was there while a mirrored tower was being built. From the 27th floor an I-beam came lose and dropped straight down and impaled the power transformer for the block. They ran for 5dys just on their generators. Mini-bar sales went up. Restocking was really hard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @02:46PM (2 children)
The second part of that quote goes a lot to Malaysia trying to change that picture you painted.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:55AM (1 child)
Which raises the question: Has the situation really improved, or are they just trying to make the world think they have changed?
I've never been there so I can not comment on Malaysia's past or present conditions. Perhaps someone who has been there recently would like to chime in about current conditions?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:37PM
Even budget hotels are better than his imaginary bullshit "high-end" hotel.
p.s. SN moderators are ignorant idiots too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @03:18PM
and .. if there were a superman wearing a green cape, his x-ray-green-vision would reveal it covered in oozing, icky oil ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @10:02PM