Editing Kuala Lumpur (section)

===Architecture===
{{Main|Architecture of Kuala Lumpur}}
[[File:Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin (Damansara Road) (south), central Kuala Lumpur.jpg|thumb|The [[Kuala Lumpur Railway Station]] (right) contrasts with [[Keretapi Tanah Melayu]] (left) Administration Building, a darker, similarly Mughal-styled building. Both were designed by [[A. B. Hubback]]]]

The architecture of Kuala Lumpur is a mixture of old [[Colonialism|colonial]] influences, Asian traditions, Malay Islamic inspirations, [[modern architecture|modern]], and [[postmodern architecture]].<ref>{{cite news|publisher=New York Times, Travel|access-date=18 December 2007|date=23 September 1990|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DC143AF930A1575AC0A966958260|title=Landmarks of Kuala Lumpur|first1=Barbaralee|last1=Diamonstein|first2=New|last2=Jersey|archive-date=24 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224123833/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DC143AF930A1575AC0A966958260|url-status=live}}</ref> A relatively young city compared with other Southeast Asian capitals such as [[Bangkok]], [[Jakarta]] and [[Manila]], most of Kuala Lumpur's notable colonial-era buildings were built toward the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. These buildings were designed in a number of styles – [[Mughal architecture|Mughal]]/[[Moorish Revival architecture|Moorish Revival]], [[Mock Tudor]], [[Gothic Revival architecture|Neo-Gothic]] or Grecian-Spanish style or architecture.<ref>{{cite book|title=British Colonial Architecture in Malaysia 1800–1930|last=Ahmad|first=A. Ghafar|publisher=Museums Association of Malaysia|location=Kuala Lumpur|year=1997}}[http://www.hbp.usm.my/conservation/British/britishcolonial1.htm extract] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219211707/http://www.hbp.usm.my/conservation/British/britishcolonial1.htm |date=19 December 2007 }}</ref> Most of the styling has been modified to use local resources and adapted to the local climate, which is hot and humid all year around. A significant architect of the early period is [[Arthur Benison Hubback]] who designed a number of the colonial-era buildings including the [[Kuala Lumpur Railway Station]] and [[Jamek Mosque]].

Before the Second World War, many [[shophouse]]s, usually two stories with functional shops on the ground floor and separate residential spaces upstairs, were built around the old city centre. These shop-houses drew inspiration from [[Straits Chinese]] and European traditions.<ref name="gurstien" /><ref name="gurstien google cache" /> Some of these shophouses have made way for new developments but there are still many standing today in the [[Medan Pasar Besar]] (Old Market Square), [[Petaling Street|Chinatown]], [[Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman]], [[Jalan Doraisamy]], [[Bukit Bintang]] and Tengkat Tong Shin areas.
[[File:Masjid Jamek.jpg|thumb|[[Jamek Mosque]] (''Masjid Jamek'') is one of the oldest [[mosque]]s still standing in Kuala Lumpur, built in 1909.|left]]
Independence coupled with rapid economic growth from the 1970s to the 1990s and with Islam being the official religion in the country, has resulted in the construction of buildings with a more local and Islamic flavour around the city. Many of these buildings derive their design from traditional Malay items such as the [[songkok]] and the [[Kris|keris]]. Some of these buildings have Islamic geometric motifs integrated into the designs of the building, due to Islamic restrictions on imitating nature through drawings.<ref name="Cop149">{{cite book|title=World Architecture: An Illustrated History|author=Copplestone, Trewin|page=[https://archive.org/details/worldarchitectur00copp/page/149 149]|publisher=London, Hamlyn|year=1976|isbn=978-0-600-03954-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/worldarchitectur00copp/page/149}}</ref> Examples of these buildings are [[Telekom Tower]], [[Maybank Tower (Kuala Lumpur)|Maybank Tower]], [[Dayabumi Complex]], and the Islamic Centre.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0cqkU5RxwgC&pg=PA71|title=Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor: A Critical Geography, page 74|access-date=14 December 2007|isbn=978-0-203-64736-3|date=12 March 2004|last1=Bunnell|first1=Tim|publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> Some buildings such as the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia and [[Planetarium Negara|National Planetarium]] have been built to masquerade as a place of worship, complete with [[dome]] and [[minaret]], when in fact they are places of science and knowledge. The {{convert|452|m|ft|adj=on}} [[Petronas Towers]] are the tallest twin buildings in the world and were the tallest buildings in the country until being surpassed by The Exchange 106 by 1.7 meters in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0909775.html|title=Petronas Towers|work=Pearson PLC|access-date=11 December 2007|publisher=Infoplease|archive-date=20 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071220223229/http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0909775.html|url-status=live}}</ref> They were designed to resemble motifs found in Islamic art.<ref>{{cite web|author=Henry, Brandi|title=Petronas Towers|url=http://illumin.usc.edu/article.php?articleID=54|publisher=USC Viterbi, School of Engineering|work=illumin|access-date=10 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126002622/http://illumin.usc.edu/article.php?articleID=54|archive-date=26 November 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the late-1990s and early-2000s. With economic development, old buildings such as [[Bok House]] have been razed to make way for new ones. Buildings with all-glass shells exist throughout the city, with the most prominent examples being the Petronas Towers and [[Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre]]. Kuala Lumpur's central business district today has shifted to the Kuala Lumpur city centre (KLCC) where many new and tall buildings with modern and postmodern architecture fill the skyline. According to the World Tallest 50 Urban Agglomeration 2010 Projection by the [[Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat]], Kuala Lumpur ranks 10th among cities that have most buildings above 100 metres with a combined height of 34,035 metres from its 244 high-rise buildings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ctbuh.org/HighRiseInfo/TallestDatabase/50TallestAgglomerations/tabid/1006/language/en-GB/Default.aspx|title=The Worlds Tallest 50 Urban Agglomerations|work=CTBUH Journal|access-date=14 January 2012|publisher=Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113191405/http://www.ctbuh.org/HighRiseInfo/TallestDatabase/50TallestAgglomerations/tabid/1006/language/en-GB/Default.aspx|archive-date=13 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>