Berjaya times square

The buildings of Berjaya Times Square are multifunctional: they have apartments, a hotel with 1200 rooms ^{[1] [2]} , a large shopping center (about 1000 outlets and 65 fast-food enterprises), an indoor amusement park , and a cinema .

Berjaya Times Square is accessible from the Monorail Station, with which the complex is connected by a pedestrian bridge .

Main characteristics

Both buildings are absolutely identical ^{[3] [4]} :

• Construction: from 1997 to 2003
• Height: 203.1 m (14th in the list of tallest buildings in Malaysia and 13th in the )
• Total area of ​​all premises: 700,000 m² (9th place in the list of the largest buildings and structures in the world (by area of ​​premises) )
  • Area of ​​retail premises: 320,000 m² (22nd place in the )
• Floors: 48 + 5 underground
• Architect:
• Owner and developer:

Historically, the land on which the Berjaya Times Square buildings stand was owned by philanthropist Cheong Yoke Choy (1873-1958). Later this place was acquired by .

The complex was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, in October 2003 a few days before his retirement by age (at that time he was almost 78 years old). In April 2005, the store opened here - at that time their largest in the world. However, due to the crisis , in 2010 the size of this store was significantly reduced, and in 2016 it was completely closed.

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  13 floors of one of the towers is occupied by a shopping center

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  The world's largest vending machine

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  Amusement park

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  Malaysian Wikipedia meeting at Berjaya Times Square in June 2016

• Official site of the complex (English)
• Tower A at skyscrapercenter.com
• Tower B at skyscrapercenter.com
• Forum (English)