£3.5bn supercomplex in Malaysia

My friend found this website about building architectures while doing research online for her dissertation in the Civil Engineering field.

It shows of a very huge and futuristic building plan which as it looks, will takes up alot of green space on our small Penang island.

Plans revealed for £3.5bn supercomplex in Malaysia
18 December, 2007

By Dan Stewart

Architect Asymptote has released images of masterplan for a £3.5bn city development for Malaysian government

American architect Asymptote has unveiled images of a $7bn (£3.5bn) supercomplex on the island of Penang in Malaysia.

The development, to be known as Penang Global City Centre, will cover 256 acres and feature two 60-storey towers housing luxury residential unit and five-star hotel accommodation.

The open space beneath the towers will act as a public plaza surrounded by shops, restaurants, a theatre and a convention centre.

The development was masterplanned by Parisian firm Atelier Seraji.

Penang Global City Centre is to be funded by the Malaysian government, who claim its construction will be carbon neutral.

According to the article above, it towers luxury residential unit and five-star hotel accomodation. Why not seven-star? O.O Like Dubai's Burj-al Arab. That is one real masterpiece. Everything built to the finest from the building to cuisine served. Lol.

Anyway, I think it's pretty absurd to be even proposing this idea at this year of time. I mean, what Malaysia needs now is not a 3.5 Billion Pound Supercomplex in Malaysia. £3.5bn is like equivalent to RM22.3120b. 22 billion Myr which could be put to better use such as getting all the people in this country out of poverty. Come up with a proposal to help the those who lives in poverty lead a better live, sharpen up their skills to improve the efficiency of the labour field in the country which can very much benefit the people and the country.

Other than that, this huge amount of money can be used to fund some Research and Developement programme which Malaysia can specialise in the future. Atleast coming up with some skills or knowledge that can help sustain the stability of our country economy from being turn to fine sand that can easily be blown away like that happened to the U.S. economy where some fields which use to be the glory of the country had turned into priceless scraps as they were not as efficient as China and therefore, has lost the battle. Besides that, having a RnD department which looks into a new technology or science research which could increase the living standard of humans such as ways to curb factors of pollution would be a great idea.

Anyway, that's just some of my thoughts. I don't think we need enter the race of who-can-have-the-grandest-structure-in-their-country race. If you would like to stand out, why not try to do something which we are good at, or which nobody is focusing on. I'm sure there is something worth doing which the world has yet to notice. More over, I don't see the grandess in showing off structures which are not even designed or built by Malaysians! We are just telling the world that our famous KLCC is designed by César Pelli, an Argentine architectTower 1 was built by the South Korean multinational Samsung Engineering & Construction and Tower 2 by Hazama Corporation of Japan.

However, when I was trying to find out who's the architecture and construction company for Kl Tower,I found out that it is actually used for telecommunication and broadcasting transmission. O.O Wow.. didn't know that. Ok, that shows how shallow I am, but atleast I know now -.-;; As an additional fact, it is managed by Menara Kuala Lumpur Sdn. Bhd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Telekom Malaysia Group. Also, ALso.. the architect company for Kl Tower is Kumpulan Senireka Sdn. Bhd. It has a Sdn.Bhd. So I assume it to be a Malaysian company. Atleast we can be proud of our very own Kl Tower. Constructed by Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG, a German company based in Frankfurt.

The famous Smart Tunnel in Malaysia is actually the first-of-its-kind tunnel in the world. According to one of the lecturer in a university who partake in the designing of the Smart Tunnel, there is actually a better alternative plan to solve the drainage problem. This project cost £335 million (2.13574b MYR). So, I guess, in-order to show the world 'Malaysia Boleh!' they decided to go ahead with this first-of-its-kind tunnel project. They are constructed by a premier engineering, contruction and infrastructure group, Gamuda which joint-venture with MMC Engineering Group to construct the Smart Tunnel under the supervision of Mott MacDonald, an employee-owned management, engineering and development consultancy serving the public and private sector around the world. However, there has been some reports of leaking and crackin found in the tunnel. To know more about these problems, check this out.

With the latest megastructure project in Malaysia, I shall end my post here and start focusing back to what I should be reading and doing which is Finance, Accounting & Management - sounds boring compare to engineering stuffs which I just mentioned. What have I got myself into x.x

More about the £3.5bn Penang project here.

Forsakengel.