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KUALA LUMPUR

MALAYSIAN BROADCASTING CENTRE

Project viewed from Federal Highway

N its final form the Malaysian Broadcasting Centre in Kuala Lumpur will be the largest of its kind in South East Asia and one of the most modern in the world, It will comprise a complex of six buildings, integrating on one site all the ad- ministrative, technical and pro- gramming facilities for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Television Malaysia and Radio Malaysia.

The site is mid-way between Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya and is unequalled in Malaysia for its shape and dominant position. Covering about 33 acres, it sits 80ft. above the Federal Highway overlooking the Pantai Valley.

Due to its hilly topography, the land cannot be intensely developed and imposes severe restrictions on the planning of its development.

How-

ever this restriction lends itself to an intensive and compact development

Far East BUILDER, July 1968.

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION & BROADCASTING owners

N. J. PAPPAS & ASSOCIATES

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CO. (M) LTD.

with little waste space. All buildings are placed as close to the north edge of the plateau as possible, creating a dramatic relationship of the buildings to the site and the surrounding coun- tryside and providing a view of Kuala Lumpur and the Pantai Valley for its inhabitants.

In order to create sufficient flat area for buildings, the original hill top was levelled in two stages and the spoil used to fill a 35 ft. deep ravine which ran through the back of the property.

Due to its height above the sur-

architects and engineers

quantity surveyors

building contractor

rounding roads, the site is approached by means of a long winding access road leading from Jalan Pantai

Dalam.

The six main buildings comprise:

First stage:

1. Integrated Services (Admin.) Buildings: a 10-storey block.

2. Television House, connected to the Admin. Building by an entrance hall: a three-storey building contain- ing four TV studios and related pro- duction and technical facilities.

3. Services (Plant) Building: a

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