Butler Serviced Hotels Come To Kuala Lumpur
Published on 23-09-2009
St Regis, the six star hotel chain is aiming at moving into the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur with hotel designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Developed by One IFC, a joint venture between CMY Capital Sdn Bhd and Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd, the scheme is being designed to accommodate not only the 200 room hotel but also 200 apartments that will also be managed by St Regis, a brand that literally has a butler service you can call on. Bertie Wooster would approve.
With approximately 80 floors, the building will have a substantial height making it one of the tallest in Kuala Lumpur, and also one of the defining skyscrapers of the under construction business district it is set to stand in, KL Sentral.
With a square footprint, the towers design is dominated by four stacks of rectangles. These present a series of differing facades to each side of the building making them look almost like a neatly arranged self-contained collection of glass books.
The building has yet to start construction but already has a firm finish date penciled in with the hotel aimed at opening on January the first 2014 according to St Regis, a very precise date that will no doubt be watched over by Jeeves.
Source:
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=2302
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