Tall & Urban News

Arte Mont Kiara, a residential and hotel complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has reached completion. Arte Mont Kiara comprises two residential towers and a hotel. Designed by Spark, the towers rise over a parking podium with their double-skin layers covered in a series of aluminium fins. The fins form a “friction ridge” pattern based on the thumb print of the developer. Loops, whorls, and arches articulate the form of the towers. 

The sculpted composition marks this key site in Kuala Lumpur's residential district, Mont Kiara. The podium car park is similarly shrouded by layers of horizontal fins that integrates the building with the ground context. The streamlined pattern of Arte MK's tower fins are a dynamic interpretation of the common local residential typology, and is juxtaposed against the “Restoration”-inspired French interior. 

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