Buildings exceeding 200 metres height in KL

Not many cities in this world could have over 20 buildings that are each at least 200 metres high respectively. To make it into that list, I can only think of some mega cities like New York, Hong Kong, Chicago, Shanghai, Dubai, Tokyo, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chongqing. And by 2016, my home-city, Kuala Lumpur will become the 10th city in the world to join the list with exactly 20 buildings that are each over 200 metres high in the capital of Malaysia.

Yes, till 2016, only 10 cities crossed over this milestone and I’m quite excited that KL is part of it. We also love to build tall here in Kuala Lumpur, a trend that is particularly popular in rising cities in China as well as in Dubai nowadays. Having a lot of tall buildings in the city helps to create more city landmarks as well as enhancing the overall skyline. This also provides an ideal solution to short amount of land for development especially in dense urban areas.

Here below is the list of the current top 20 tallest buildings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that includes the architecturally topped-out buildings, but not including television or sightseeing towers. You can see the building in the 20th place hit the 200-metres mark precisely to help push the city to join the 10-city club as mentioned above.

1 & 2 – Petronas Twin Towers (452 metres, 88 floors each, built in 1998, former world’s tallest buildings and current world’s tallest twin buildings)

3 – Telekom Tower (310 metres, 55 floors, built in 2001)

4 – Ilham Baru Tower (274 metres, 60 floors, built in 2015)

5 – Petronas Tower 3 (267 metres, 60 floors, built in 2012)

6 – Maybank Tower (244 metres, 50 floors, built in 1988, former city’s tallest building)

7 – Banyan Tree Signatures (240 metres, 55 floors, architecturally topped-out)

8 – Vista Tower (238 metres, 60 floors, built in 1994)

9 – Vortex Tower (235 metres, 58 floors, architecturally topped-out)

10 – Felda Tower (216 metres, 50 floors, built in 2012)

11 – Naza Tower 1 (216 metres, 50 floors, built in 2015)

12 – Maxis Tower (212 metres, 49 floors, built in 1998)

13 – AmBank Tower (210 metres, 50 floors, built in 1998)

14 – St. Regis Hotel & Residences (205 metres, 48 floors, architecturally topped-out)

15 – The Troika Tower 3 (204 metres, 50 floors, built in 2010, tallest city’s full residential building)

16 & 17 – Berjaya Times Square Tower A & B (203 metres, 48 floors each, built in 2003)

18 – K Residence (202 metres, 52 floors, built in 2008)

19 – Lot G Office Towers (200 metres, 45 floors, built in 2013)

20 – Le Nouvel Tower 1 (200 metres, 49 floors, architecturally topped-out)

There are actually several high-rise buildings completed recently along KL Sentral region of which their height would be around 190 metres to 200 metres respectively. However, there isn’t a formal database to confirm on this. Some also speculated that the Le Nouvel Tower 1 (the 20th tallest) is actually 199 metres tall, and not 200 metres. Well, there is only a 1 metre difference..so let’s just get over it. In few more years, there would be several more much taller buildings to be constructed in the city, particularly the city’s next tallest building, the PNB 118 Tower that will go beyond 600-metres mark once built.


(Information above is correct as of April 2016. Images in this post are from various sources throughout the world wide web)