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KLAT Updates 2019.

Welcome, 2019! KLAT wishes you a blast and great New Year 2019! May the new year brings you joy, prosperity and happiness all year round. May 2019 is filled up with many good moments and time while successfully achieving our dreams and goals with the hope of a better life in this new year.

Ushering 2019, KLAT has been recently re-activated with the brand new walking tour programmes and social media presence. So, to all our dearest clients and readers, kindly visit, follow and like our social media and new platforms presence as per below:

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Stay tuned and keep posted with our updates from these above pages from time to time, including this KLAT Blogspot page!

Thank you! Terima kasih!

Happy New Year 2019!
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National Mosque

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The National Mosque is the pioneer modernist architecture masterpiece in Malaysia. Completed in 1965, the mosque was created and built during the early post-independence era, that was heavily dependent on the former British colonial legacies, including the architecture.

View from the front Islamic garden © Stefan Fussan | Wikimedia.org |   Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

However, its architect team, headed by the local architect, Dato' (Dr.) Ar. Baharuddin Abu Kassim initiated an ingenious and unique design defying the normal architectural language of domes and arches, the foreign architectural influences introduced by the British.

National Mosque has been served as the iconic symbol of Islam as the country official religion. The mosque is noted for its semi-open parasol dome, that was a resemblance of the umbrella used by the Malay rulers. While the minaret is topped with the semi-enclosed umbrella stands sturdily on a slender structure.

The veranda area © Khalzuri | Wikimedia.org |   Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Stepping inside the mosque, will lead you the spacious and open corridor area on the upper floor, a reminisce to the veranda area of the Malay traditional house, a raise and open area that allows for cross-ventilation and thermal comfort for the indoor prayer area.

The mosque is a huge complex that can accommodate up to 15,000 worshippers at one time. It is a crucial destination for many government religious occasions, as well as a tour destination for many country's important guests. On this year, National Mosque celebrates its 50th year anniversary.

The main prayer hall © CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Sultan Abdul Samad Building

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The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is the most prominent colonial building located in Kuala Lumpur. It serves as a government building since its inception in 1897. It has often been related to the British colonialism in Malaysia.

Unlike the most British colonial architecture in Singapore, India or Australia, the British colonial architecture in Malaysia, or formerly known as Malaya, departed from the Neoclassical or British Victorian architecture. This was due to the fact that Malaya was a consisted of several Malay protected stated with heredity rulers, the Sultans.

 Front elevation view © Stefan Fussan | Wikimedia.org |  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
In order to appease the Malay Sultans, and also to impose the Malay-Islamic images to the people, the British architects had imparted the foreign architectural language, including the Mughal architecture from India. Sultan Abdul Samad Building is one of the many Mughal-inspired architecture built in the country.

Named after the former Sultan of Selangor, the building is noted for its clock tower, adorned with onion-shaped dome and built with masonry finishes. Other than the domes, the building facade is heavily decorated with a series of pointed arches, crenellations and pediments.

View from Independence Square with Victoria Fountain in the foreground © Earth | Wikimedia.org |   Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
The elongated building, is a part of the classic British colonial city planning, with the main civic building facing a wide green space, clustered with with few other civic and public buildings, and connected to the main roads, rivers or railroads.

The building has been inscribed to the National Heritage status and now has been administered d by the Department of National Heritage. It has been used as a gallery space, and also the main avenue during the Independence Day Parade, combined together with the adjacent Independence Square during the 31st August every year.

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Petronas Twin Towers

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The Petronas Twin Towers is undoubtedly the most prominent landmark and icon of the modern Malaysia. Completed in 1996 and opened three years later, the building is currently the world's seventh tallest building and the world's tallest twin buildings. It had been the world's tallest building for seven years before surpassed by Taipei's 101 Building in Taiwan.

The iconic twin building is the creation of American-Argentine architect, Cesar Pelli. Its construction was coined to the mastermind man of the project, the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who initiated a mega-scale project to rebrand Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia in the international level.

 View from the front ground level © Osm agha | Wikimedia.org
The building is the modern interpretation of the Islamic architecture. The 88 storey floor building is designed in several tiers and based on the layout of the famous Islamic geometrical pattern or Arabesque. The two squares are interlocking and formed angular space, with an additional round spaces to increase the usable floor.

The building unique feature, the sky bridge, is probably the only such in the world. It symbolises Malaysia preparedness into the future and the 21st century. It serves as both aesthetic and connectivity purposes between the two towers.

The night view © WolfgangSladkowski | Wikimedia.org |  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
The Petronas Twin Towers is the integral component of the urban development enclave of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). The KLCC comprises many other buildings and facilities including the Petronas Philharmonic Hall, Suria KLCC Shopping Centre, Maxis Tower, Tower 3, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Asy-Syakirin Mosque, KLCC Park, KL Convention Centre and few other office and residential buildings. It is located on the former race course on Ampang Road and can be accessed using various public and private transportation, such as the LRT and buses.

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