Tun Mustapha Tower, Glass skyscraper in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Tun Mustapha Tower is a 30-storey, 122 m glass tower in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Its cylindrical facade is a continuous curtain of blue-grey rectangular glass panels set in a grid of thin mullions, divided by a projecting horizontal band about one-third from the top. The glass cylinder meets a dark, faceted, tapering skirt above a broad entrance plaza reached by wide steps.
The tower was completed in 1976 by the Japanese construction firm Mori Building Company and was originally known as Yayasan Sabah Tower. It was built during a period when Kota Kinabalu was growing quickly as a regional center.
The tower is named after Tun Datu Mustapha Datu Harun, Sabah's third chief minister, who held the name from 2001. Its main draw is the revolving restaurant on the 18th floor, the only revolving restaurant on the island of Borneo, which turns once an hour.
The tower stands in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, and is easy to spot when driving north out of the city. The revolving restaurant on the 18th floor makes one full 360-degree turn per hour, so a table by the glass gives a changing view of Likas Bay without leaving your seat.
The 18th floor features a rotating platform that completes one full turn every hour, slowly shifting the view of Likas Bay and Mount Kinabalu. This kind of rotating floor is very rare in Malaysia and draws visitors who may not expect it in a building of this age.
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