Four Seasons Place Kuala Lumpur, also known as Four Seasons KLCC and FSP KLCC Tower, is a 74-story, supertall skyscraper in

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, Malaysia. It is

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's fourth tallest building. It features a high

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made out of

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at the top of the tower, making the tower reaches the height of . It is located within the Kuala Lumpur City Centre precinct in

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, Malaysia. The building was developed by Ipoh-born Singapore tycoon,

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, partnering Tan Sri Syed Yusof Tun Syed Nasir and the

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under Venus Assets Sdn Bhd. It is currently the fourth tallest building in Malaysia.

Shoppes at Four Seasons Place

The hotel includes an atrium mall known as ''Shoppes at Four Seasons Place'', also known as ''Shoppes @ Four Seasons Place KL'', located at the ground levels. It is a luxury retail mall which is connected to the building itself and takes up six levels of the tower. Its sister mall is located at the Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip under the name of "Shoppes at Four Seasons". Recently in October 2020, the Robinsons announced that they will be closing their department store at the mall along with its outlet in

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located at Mid Valley City.

Launch

This project which is the first-ever Four Seasons Place in

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, was launched by the former

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Najib Razak Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( ms, محمد نجيب بن عبد الرزاق, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the 6th prime minister of Malaysi ...

on 30 January 2013. This event was also accompanied by the Chairman of Venus Assets, Tan Sri Syed Yusof, and witnessed by

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. The project was completed in 2018.

Criticism

The hotel's design and the location were criticised for blocking the view of the national icon, the Petronas Towers. The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) President KL Tan said in an interview to

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. "Our Twin Towers are an iconic tourist attraction - they should not be blocked at all. Tourists want to have a nice view and take photos of the twin towers, once the tallest buildings in the world." To defend against this criticism, the then Malaysia's Minister of Tourism and Culture,

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said that "There are those who are willing to pay to stay in such hotels and there would be tourists who would visit a place just to stay in such a hotel."

Transportation access

The building is served by the

KLCC LRT station KLCC LRT station is an underground rapid transit station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, served by the Kelana Jaya Line. It is located in the basement of Avenue K, a shopping mall along Jalan Ampang. A pedestrian subway links the station to Suria ...

on the

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. The building will also have access to the upcoming underground station on the

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(SSP) which will be the

Persiaran KLCC MRT station Persiaran KLCC MRT station ''(Working name: KLCC East)'' is a mass rapid transit (MRT) underground station under construction that will serve the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the stations being buil ...

, formerly KLCC East station.

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