World Skyscrapers – 2010 Current and Future

 

 

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Tomorrow, 4 January 2010, Burj Dubai Tower (818m) at Dubai will beat Taipei 101 Tower (508m) at Taiwan, and will dominate the world, officially become the world’s tallest tower.

 

I am believed that Burj Dubai Tower will the world’s skyscrapers height for at least 10 years. There are 10 skyscrapers is still under construction, which is taller than Petronas Twin Towers at Malaysia (452m) but shorter than Burj Dubai Tower.

 

Petronas Twin Towers is the first modern skyscraper built in Asia and the world in year 1998. It beat the Sears Tower from United State which holding the world’s tallest tower title for 24 years. After Malaysia making history and record, many other country believe their competence and willing to making new record and history.

 

Today many country especially from Asia compete to build world’s tallest. We can see city like Shanghai, Hong Kong and Dubai standing more than two 400m+ buildings.

 

What’s the next? Can you imagine the next 20 years?

Kuala Lumpur – List of Under Construction High Rise Buildings 2009-2010

Petronas Twins Tower and Kuala Lumpur Tower just like King and Queen, still dominating the skyline of Kuala Lumpur City. In the future, there are many buildings to be build to make the skyline view more consistence, and condense. We welcome the top 10 under construction buildings below build near the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC).

1. Four Seasons Centre

2. Carigali Tower

3. Platinium Park

4. The Troika

5. Glomac Tower

6. Regent Resident

7. The Intermark

8. Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

9. Hampshire Place

10. The Panorama

Future of the Kuala Lumpur may look like this…

Click the image below to view the current Kuala Lumpur Landscape

What Happen in Year 2012?

 

 

Future of the Earth

 

 

KL SMART Tunnel - World Longest Tunnel

 

KL SMART Tunnel is about 9.7 km long and has internal diameter of 11.83 m. The SMART integrates both storm water management and a motorway in the same tunnel.

The Storm water Management Component comprises of the diversion structure, a holding basin, a bypass tunnel, a storage reservoir and the twin box culvert and an outlet structure. The total storage capacity for SMART system is 3 million m3. The existing ponds at Kg. Berembang and Taman Desa utilized as holding basin and storage reservoir.

The motorway consist of a 3 km double deck structure within bypass tunnel with ingress and egress connection links at both ends of the structure. The ingress and egress connection to the motorway Tunnel Linking KL - Seremban Highway to Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Tun Razak.


The motorway consist of four ventilation and emergency escape shafts at about 1 km intervals and cross passages at 250 m intervals along the motorway tunnel.

A flood detection system and control and surveillance team will be incorporate in the overall SMART system to effectively integrate and manage both storm water and traffic.

The operation of the SMART system works on three principal mode operation based on the relationship between flood discharge at the Sg. Klang / Sg. Ampang confluence and the operations status of the motorway. The river water stages and river discharge will be monitored via hydrological stations along the rivers.

The flood discharge will only be diverted into the bypass tunnel when it exceeds 70 cumecs. For flood discharge between 70 to 150 cumecs, the motorway will still be open to traffic. The motorway will only be closed when the flood discharge exceeds 150 cumecs for the full storm water operation of the SMART, which is expected once or twice a year.

The reinstatement from storm water to motorway operation will be initiated when the flood discharge recedes to 70 cumecs. The reinstatement process will take about 4 days and this involves cleaning up and reinstalling all portable equipment to full operation mode.

 

Take a look in this video from Discovery Channel

Kuala Lumpur Buildings Gallery

 

Yeah! Just compiled all the Kuala Lumpur buildings in under one picture. This is the “best” skyline in the world if all the KL buildings arrange in this way, where all the high-rise buildings concentrate in one area.

 

Click the picture to enlarge.

Can you name all the buildings here?

 

Kuala Lumpur Government should build a skyscraper/buildings museum gallery which provide information such at buildings height, feature, and history about all the skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur. 3D buildings model must show off in the museum gallery.

 

I’m a big skyline fans!

Hope one day in the city centre will build another building/tower taller than Petronas Twins Tower!

KL Rocks!

Future Rail System in Malaysia

Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (SPNB), the state-owned public transport operator, plans to spend up to RM7 billion to extend 2 light rail transit (LRT) lines in Kuala Lumpur.

 

The 2 extension lines is Kelana Jaya Line (formerly PUTRA) and Ampang/SRI Petaling Line (formerly STAR) will cover a total of 34.7km and is due to start early 2010 and fully completed by end of 2012.

 

 

 

 

Kelana Jaya Line LRT Extension
 
There will 13 new stations at the Subang area after the Kelana Jaya station. It will include interchange station with Subang Jaya KTM commuter station and interchange station with Sri Petaling LRT Line before ending at Putra Height.

 

The current average daily passenger volume is 180,000. It is expected that more people will use this public transport in the future. There is only 2 car hub in this train and will added 2 more car hub in the future to fulfil the passenger.

 

 

Ampang/Sri Petaling Line LRT Extension

13 new stations at the Puchong area after the Sri Petaling station. It will include interchange station with Sri Petaling LRT Line before ending at Putra Height.

 

 

Kota Damansara – Cheras New MRT Line

The proposed new rail line from Kota Damansara to Cheras, measuring 42km to be build and using Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system because of high population density. It is also a possible extension from Kota Damansara MRT station to Sungai Buloh KTM station.

 

The proposed alignment showed the new line running from Kota Damansara along Persiaran Surian to the Damansara-Puchong Expressway and then heading towards the city centre along the Sprint Expressway, through Bangsar Baru and Jalan Bangsar.

 

It will then run parallel to the existing Kelana Jaya Line to Nu Sentral in KL Sentral, then Pasar Seni and Masjid Jamek before heading to the Bukit Bintang along Jalan Raja Chulan.

 

The  route will then pass Pasar Rakyat in Bukit Bintang and then Jalan Tun Razak where it will join Jalan Cheras.

 

It will continue along the road and the Cheras-Kajang Expressway to the Balakong interchange near Cheras Batu 11.

 

There will be around 30 stations along the line, including a few interchange stations. It willstart from Kota Damansar SEGi University College (my Pre-U college), pass through Taman Connaught (my University UCSI is here) and pass through Kampung Batu 11 (my primary school SJK(C) Batu 11 Cheras is here). It is a great MRT line and connected few major shopping centre. Below is an indication of the proposed alignment:

 

1. Kota Damansara – SEGi University College @
2. Persiaran Surian
3. Mutiara Damansara – Ikea/Ikano/The Curve/Tesco
4. Bandar Utama – 1 Utama
5. Taman Tun Dr Ismail – Pizza Hut/Jalan Burhanuddin Helmi
6. Sprint Highway – Phileo Damansara
7. Pusat Bandar Damansara – Help University College
8. Jalan Maarof – Bangsar Shopping Centre
9. Jalan Telawi – Bangsar Village
10. Bangsar – Dataran Maybank (Kelana Jaya Line Interchange)
11. Nu Sentral (Kelana Jaya Line / KL Monorail Interchange)
12. Pasar Seni South (Kelana Jaya Line Interchange)
13. Masjid Jamek (Kelana Jaya Line / Ampang Line Interchange)
14. Bukit Nanas – Jalan Raja Chulan
15. Pavilion KL
16. Sungei Wang (KL Monorail Interchange)
17. Jalan Pudu – Berjaya Times Square
18. Bulatan Pudu – Pudu Pasar/Police Station/Ezone Park
19. Taman Maluri (Ampang Line Interchange)
20. Jalan Cheras Batu 4 – Stadium Badminton
21. Taman Midah Cheras Roundabout – Tesco Extra Cheras
22. Taman Segar – Cheras Leisure Mall
23. Taman Connaught – UCSI University/Plaza Phoenix
24. Cheras Batu 9 – Kampung Sungai Raya
25. Kampung Batu 11 – Grand Saga Toll
26. Balakong – AEON Cheras Selatan
27. Bandar Tun Hussein Onn @

 

(bold) = shopping malls; (@) = possible extension to Sungai Buloh KTM Station and Mines Resort City in Seri Kembangan.

 

 

Revival of Putrajaya Monorail Line

This is not a new project in Putrajaya but was halted in year 2003 due to the economy and financial. This project will revive and continue the project once the Putrajaya CIty has enough residents.

 

The Putrajaya Monorail Bridge.

 

The structure was indeed built as a bridge but it was intended for the delayed Putrajaya Monorail project.

Described as the missing link in the developing public transport network in Putrajaya, the project has been hanging in the balance since 2004 when it hit a snag due to federal budget constraints

 

 

A sign for the “Putrajaya Monorail” outside the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry actually uses the image of a regular suburban train (can you see the two tracks?) and is clearly labeled “Stesen LRT”

 

 

The southern portal to the underground portion of the incomplete Putrajaya monorail.

 

 

Johor LRT/MRT/Monorail Proposal

Iskandar Malaysia, formerly known as Iskandar Development Region (IDR) and South Johor Economic Region (SJER) is the main southern development corridor in Johor, Malaysia. The Iskandar Malaysia was established on 30 July 2006. The project is administered by Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) and is named after the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Iskandar.

 

The development region encompasses an area about twice the size of Singapore, including the city of Johor Bahru and towns of Pontian, Senai, Pasir Gudang and the construction of a new administrative capital in Nusajaya. Johor Bahru District is included in its entirety, as are parts of the district of Pontian. Five local planning authorities have jurisdiction over the covered area, including Majlis Bandaraya Johor Bahru (Johor Bahru City Council), Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah (Johor Bahru Tengah Municipal Council), Majlis Perbandaran Pasir Gudang (Pasir Gudang Municipial Council), Majlis Perbandaran Kulai (Kulai Municipal Council), and Majlis Daerah Pontian (Pontian District Council).

 

In the future, a multi-modal terminal will be developed in the Iskandar Johor Area, as well as an MRT/LRT system connecting Johor Bahru City Centre to other areas in Iskandar Malaysia.

 

This is the proposal of integrated rail system in Iskandar Johor. I believe in the future, Johor will be the another good city inline with Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.

 

For more information about this project, please refer http://www.iskandarmalaysia.com.my/pdf/cdp/19._Chapter16_-_Transit_Oriented_Development.pdf

 

 

Others Mooted Possible Rail Line

Other rail networks mooted for Klang Valley include a possible extension of KL Monorail and extension of KLIA Express to the proposed permanent LCCT.

 

Perhaps these project will be done before year 2020. Malaysia Boleh!