Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur building, Skyscraper in Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur is a hotel on Jalan Sultan Ismail, designed by Jurubena Bertiga International of Malaysia and Kanko Kikaku Sekkeisha of Japan as part of the UBN Complex. Its white facade has vertical columns and dark rectangular windows, with a flat window grid on the left and a rounded corner of stacked semicircular balconies on the right. A yellow "Shangri-La" sign sits near the top left above a low white podium with shrubs. It has 662 rooms, 101 of them suites, seven restaurants and a ballroom.
Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur was designed by Jurubena Bertiga International of Malaysia and Kanko Kikaku Sekkeisha of Japan as part of the UBN Complex. It was the first of the complex's three buildings to open, on 20 April 1985, ahead of the 140 m, 35-floor UBN Tower that followed the next year. The hotel was refurbished in 2002.
The hotel opened on 20 April 1985 as the first of three buildings in the UBN Complex, ahead of the 140 m, 35-floor UBN Tower that followed the next year. Its street, Jalan Sultan Ismail, is also known as Treacher Road and is named after Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
Shangri-La Kuala Lumpur stands on Jalan Sultan Ismail, also called Treacher Road, part of the Kuala Lumpur Inner Ring Road, so drivers and taxis reach it directly from the city's main loop. The hotel was refurbished in 2002. Its 662 rooms face either the city or the garden, so ask for the view you prefer when booking.
The hotel began its "Gift of Life" project in 1985 and adopted Nor Fatihah Sewah, a girl born without lower limbs, in 1997, sponsoring replacement prosthetics every five years, most recently in November 2012. In 2012 Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen presented a check for RM180,000 raised by the hotel for seven children in need.
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