Modern architecture of Kuala Lumpur mostly copies Western style, rarely using avant-garde or authentic solutions. This may disappoint some aesthetes striving for absolute exoticism, but among the skyscrapers of Malaysia's capital there are notable exceptions as well, for example the Petronas Towers or the Maybank Tower.
The right to build the latter was put out to competition in 1979, which was won by the local company Hijjas Kasturi Associates. Construction of the tower was completed in 1988, and Kuala Lumpur gained a new landmark - a 30-story skyscraper 244 meters high. Before the Petronas Towers were commissioned in 1995, this building was considered the tallest in the city.
The designers of the Maybank Tower managed to successfully combine Malay character, energy, and ascetic austerity. It is a harmony of incompatibility, where two geometric forms merge into one, forming a single whole. Visually, it may seem that the two buildings have frozen in an embrace, a dance, or a struggle - depending on the observer's imagination.
Initially, the project assumed that the tower should stylistically imitate the traditional dagger of Southeast Asia, the "kris." How successful this was, you can judge by visiting the Pudu district in Kuala Lumpur, where this amazing structure is located.
