Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

	3.25.11 - Details Details Food Service World Something is amiss at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur: when travellers enter the shiny new hotel in Malaysia, set to open next January, they'll be surprised. Instead of a ground-floor check-in area, one of four express elevators will whisk them up to the 40th-floor sky lobby. There, 360-degree views of downtown Kuala Lumpur, studded with skyscrapers, will spread before them like a giant photograph in a contemporary art museum. Koyama says WATG, one of the world's leading hospitality design firms, inverted the lobby placement to improve guest experience. Since the hotel is in the heart of the Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) Central Park, there are a number of towers around the perimeter. Adjacent is the WATG-designed Mandarin Oriental tower, the KLCC Petronas Twin Towers (the second-highest buildings in the world) and the convention centre at the back. "As you can imagine, it can be overwhelming and even claustrophobic at the round level," Koyama says. "But at the top, the space feels much more open and offers city views of central park and the skyscrapers." View article
	10.14.09 - New Luxury Condo Tower Coming to Kuala Lumpur's Business District Real Estate Channel Styled after Manhattan's iconic loft apartments, St Mary Residences is the epitome of chic city living in Kuala Lumpur. Designed by WATG, an award-winning US-based consultant for the hospitality, leisure and entertainment industries such as Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton and Hyatt Resorts Worldwide, St Mary Residences interiors have been impeccably fashioned with top-line specifications and fittings. Clearly setting the bar high for luxury metropolitan living, St Mary Residences offers globetrotting urbanites an inimitably urbane chic environment. View article
	5.20.09 - WATG-Designed Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur Under Construction Hotel Interactive Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, a 40-story five-star hotel and mixed-use development in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has begun construction. The Seattle office of international destination design firm WATG is the design architect for the project. It is scheduled to open in December of 2010. View article
	1.15.07 - WATG unveils design for Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur World Architecture News The Seattle office of international destination design firm Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG) is the design architect for the Grand Hyatt, a 40-storey five-star hotel and mixed-use development in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. View article

CHALLENGE The challenge was to design a sophisticated 40-story five-star Grand Hyatt and mixed-use development for downtown Kuala Lumpur. The structure would also include service apartments and offices in the design.

SOLUTION The design of the contemporary tower is one of simple and timeless elegance. The structure incorporates distinctive exterior materials of gold tinted glass and metallic coated white glazing and cladding, blending with the stainless steel cladding of the nearby Petronas Towers, and concrete and stone towers that flank the park. Guests will enter the building to check in, then ride the express lifts to the sky lobby where 360-degree views of the entire city will greet them. Guestrooms are situated on floors 21 to 37 with service apartments on four levels below.

SIZE 357 guestrooms; 38 service apartments; 20,000-square-meter office tower

AMENITIES Top floor lobby; luxury residential; office space; spa; fitness center; pool deck; restaurants; meeting and ballrooms;

CLIENT Confidential

SCOPE/STATUS New Build / In Progress

OPERATOR Hyatt

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT GDP Architects

Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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