Mycom teams up with Merrill Lynch

They will jointly develop land in Kenny Heights

By YAP LENG KUEN

KUALA LUMPUR: Mycom Bhd is teaming up with Merrill Lynch Asia to jointly develop 16.2 acres, valued at RM450mil, in Mont’ Kiara, just two months after striking a deal with Westcity plc of London to develop another parcel of land in the same location.

This could be the first time that a US fund is involved in a joint development project in Kuala Lumpur and signals the confidence of foreigners in Malaysia's property market where prices have yet to peak.

Compared with an average S$4,000 per sq ft in Singapore, property in Kuala Lumpur is still fetching around RM1,500 to RM2,000 per sq ft in good locations around the KL City Centre (KLCC).

This positive response from foreigners is the result of steps by the Government following the exemption from real property gains tax.

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Mycom’s development of the entire 88 acres under Kenny Heights is also seen as possibly “the last integrated development on the last choice site” in the suburban area of KL.

The joint venture with Merrill Lynch, on a 49:51 basis, is for the development of Parcels 1, 4 and 5 of Kenny Heights. The previous deal with Westcity was for a similar joint development of 10 acres in Parcel 3, valued at RM300mil.

“Kenny Heights is a very exciting project to us. It is unparallelled to any single development in Kuala Lumpur except for KLCC,” Mycom chief Datuk Yap Yong Seong, also known as Duta Yap, told StarBiz. “It will evolve into a new suburban city with about 23 million sq ft of gross floor area.”

The land belonging to Kenny Heights Development Sdn Bhd was injected into Mycom (58%) and Olympia Industries Bhd (42%) under their restructuring schemes that have just been completed.

It is planned as the main commercial centre and high-class residential area next to Kenny Hills. The project is segmented into nine parcels and is to be developed over 15 years.

It will comprise 3,000 residences, hotels with a total 1,600 rooms, 3.8 million sq ft of offices, 3.9 million sq ft of retail space, 500,000 sq ft of conference facilities, a 350,000-sq-ft medical centre and 150,000 sq ft for a cultural centre.

Indeed, it is envisioned to be twice the size of Covent Garden in London, three times that of Roponggi Hills in Tokyo and four times that of the Rockefeller Centre in New York.

Some of the world’s leading architects and designers, such as Adjaye and Associates, Benoy, Conran and Partners, Foster & Partners, ga.a architects, Heatherwick Studio, Jerde Partnership, Kengo Kuma and Associates and WDA, will be involved in the creation.

The market is already abuzz with news of the entry of these two foreign partners into Mycom. Analysts expect more surprises from Duta Yap, who looks like he will have more good news regarding his prime pieces of land and properties in the city.

Upon completion of these transactions, Mycom will be almost completely de-geared.

These transactions are likely to lead to more US and European interests in the Malaysian property investment scene.

THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT..

Kenny Heights Condominiums [Phase 1] Kuala Lumpur consists of 2 residential projects > by Poole Associates

4 residential tower blocks designed by GDP Architects, KL with 700 units. 37 stories high, situated on a hilltop.

1 luxury 10 story residential 'boutique' block designed by Moxley Architects, London with 235 units in a triangular shaped grouping of buildings.

A Sales Pavilion for the multi-phase 30,000 unit project.

BY PATCHY

NEWS ARTICLE: Adjaye, Benoy and Foster team up on huge Kuala Lumpur 'suburban city'

(Clive Walker, Architect's Journal, 19th September 2007, www.ajplus.co.uk)

A team of architectural big hitters, including Adjaye Associates, Benoy, and Foster + Partners, is creating a 'suburban city' twice the size of London's Covent Garden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Kenny Heights scheme will boast 3,000 homes, hotels, office blocks and almost 400,000m2 of retail space. Conference facilities, a medical centre and cultural quarter will also be incorporated.

Other firms on board include Conran and Partners, South Korea's ga.a architects, Heatherwick Studio, US firm the Jerde Partnership, Japan's Kengo Kuma and Associates, and WDA.

Billed as the key commercial and 'high-class' residential hub for the Kenny Hills suburb of Kuala Lumpur, the 36ha scheme has been broken down into nine 'parcels' to be developed over the next 15 years.

The scheme is being developed as a joint venture between Mycom Bhd and Merrill Lynch Asia. According to Mycom, the site is regarded as 'the last integrated development on the last choice site' in suburban Kuala Lumpur.

Mycom chief executive Datuk Yap Yong Seong said: 'It is unparalleled to any single development in Kuala Lumpur except for [massive commercial development] KLCC. It will evolve into a new suburban city with about 230,000m2 of gross floor area.'

For more information please contact: Emilie Lemons, Conran & Partners: cp@conranandpartners.com

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Masterplan for major 70 acre development in the green lung area designated for high-end luxury residential development and mixed commercial buildings. Designed and conceived by ZLG, collaboration with WDA, Kengo Kuma, Benoy, Site Concept International and designers from all over Asia and Europe.

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10 acre tract
JV between Olympia Land and Westcity
Gross development value - RM1.8Billion
Consists of a retail podium, office blocks, a 5 star HOTEL and a condo block


9 acre tract
Mycom - Olympia Land solely to develop
Consists of 4 condominium blocks

Duta Villa @ Kenny Heights

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Kenny Heights is the latest residential project from KH Land Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Dutaland Berhad. The group bring with it an enviable record and a wealth of experience in developing residential and commercial townships. Amongst its recent projects are K Residence, Kuala Lumpur's first luxury designer residence, and avenue K, one of Kuala Lumpur's most eye-catching, lifestyle designer mall.
Kenny Heights Estate seeks to redefine tropical Asia's communal living. A new generation of terraced residences, Dutavillas, realigns landscape and design with exceptional personal space adding a sense of intimacy to its unique brand of casual luxury. Sheltered within a gated community, Kenny Heights Estate, offers an exclusive environment with 49 residences each with its own private pool.

This is a sanctuary crafted from one word - intimacy. Allthough Duta Villa has been completely sold out, there are approximately 21 units booked by Zye International which has been working closely with KH Land Sdn Bhd and those units are currently available for sale.

THE ELEMENT OF PROTECTIONS
This new alignment of private residence and casual luxury gives Kenny Heights Estate a modern, distinctive personality synthesised with particular attention to design form and function. With a most compelling combination of effortless style and quality finishes, it promises an enviable lifestyle for its residents affording them an air of quiet luxury. Kenny Heights Estate consists of:
10 individual designer configurations
49 dutavillas
49 private pools, each 36 foot in length
49 personal elevators
49 sundeck baths
49 two car garages
1 pool house with a 30m sky pool
Spa pool
Secure compound systems

A PRIVATE ISLAND, INTIMATE REFLECTIONS
Intimacy and quality time at the top of your villa - a personal perspective from your 36 foot private pool.

LIMITED EDITION
DESIGN BY KENGO KUMA
"Once perceived as a symbol of wealth and luxury, I envision the pool as an element of nature. Water, an essential element in human life, is integrated into the living spaces and provides movement to the environment. Thus the pool on the top level creates a fluid quality while providing space for relaxation and opportunity for human to be close contact with nature.

With the louver system incorporating with water element, the architecture appears to be a moving object. While the water moves through the wind, the louver creates constant shifting of shadows.

In this natural and dynamic environment of dwelling, water, greenery, and human body are integrated, thus the most natural way of living is formed."

AN EXCLUSIVE ENCLAVE
Kenny Heights Estate offers 49 residences in a private community. Its low density commands a premier living space with a wealth of exclusive amenities. A highly indulgent collection of 20 limited edition villas will be designed by Kengo Kuma, connecting pools and vertical gardens within these residences as an extension of your sanctuary.

SANCTUARY BY KENGO KUMA
The ambience of the master bedroom suite is enhanced by its setting, next to a personal pool. Together with the surrounding gardens, this space crystallizes Kenny Heights Estate unique sense of casual luxury. Perched above the trees, this feature of the villa's modern living space reflects the geometry of the house and redefines swimming with the birds - naughty but very, very L.A Luxe.

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YOUR PRIVATE PARADISE
Like Imagination, Pleasure Knows No Bounds
Indulge yourself with the most luxurious new generation freehold terrace homes in Malaysia.
Immerse yourself in the calming waters of your own private 36 foot pool just outside your bedroom.
Enjoy the luxury and convenience of your own private lift.
Reside in a low density gated community built to the highest standards of privacy and security in a quiet residential neighbourhood.
Enjoy the greenery of the attractively landscaped gardens.

FINER THINGS IN LIFE
Casual Luxury
36' Private Swimming Pool
Private Lift
Designer Kitchen & Wardrobe Built-Ins
Wireless Broadband Internet Access
In-Built Smart Home
Tropical Landscapes

FACILITIES
Jacuzzi Spa Pool
Lap Pool 10m x 30m
Wading Pool
Poolside Lounge
Sunbathing Deck
BBQ Pavilion
Tea Pavilion
Steam & Sauna Room
Gymnasium
Games Room
Multi-Purpose Hall
Entrance Lounge
Children's Playground

Parcel One

Parcel one celebrates nature in all forms, vast open terraces, leisurely covered forested walkways and secret gardens, some more elevated some sunken and more intimate than others. Four majestic towers offer views into the centre stage of kenny heights a celebrated design comprising elegant drop-off points and the signature piazza, iconic in its landscaping concept simply because it is powerful enough to pull together upto 70 acres of high density developments. Parcel one is perhaps the only development with a terraced car park structure with more than 600 metres worth of brilliantly designed elevation, carved and undulated on all the three sides, the roofs bending and folding to let daylight into the lower decks where over 1200 cars are parked, needing very little wayfinding devices, but also able to frame views into other immediately adjoining parcels in particular the hospitality and retail segments. Such is the excitement of this development given its curvilinear plan and geometry.

White and crystalline glass and facade details emanate sophisticated ivory-like towers, the paired tower arrangement greets the arriving visitor and resident with symmetrical grandeur, the gentle sweeping of the ingress routes take a gradually rising road network around the extremities to arrive quickly at the lobbies, whereupon public realm begins to engage the open landscape. Centred on this lushly vegetated deck are pools of water, and twin daylighting eyelids, soft mounds and folds of greenery that shape the receding and blurred edge of the deck, altogether making this no less a forest in its own right. sculpted pieces and old banyan trees mark the otherwise spare landscape.

High spec lifts take residents up the towers, all rising to no less than 250 metres, a mix of medium sized apartments and super penthouses with private pools and resort ensuite master bedrooms, accessible directly from the ground floor. Upto 5 lifts serve each tower, total privacy is gauranteed to all of the units, some with more than one access. Many units enjoy living rooms with panaromic views of up to 12m of glazing, whereas others enjoy double height glazing of the most impressive proportions. the end units boasts all round views, every room has a view, every room a master suite in its own right. No two apartments are exactly alike, the unit mix guarantees that each investment bears unsurpassed individuality, design and character.


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Parcel 1 is first of upto 10 different plots of developments coming up in the upmarket vicinity of Sri Hartamas and Kenny Heights, Kuala Lumpur, altogether some 70 over acres of prime development land. Parcel 1 has over 1.1 million sqft of saleable area, comprising 300 units of high end condominium units in the first phase. zlgdesign's curvilinear towers flank an enormous water body on the arrival podium, this represents over 300m of poolside facilities and landscaped terraces and courtyards. Orignially plans were prepared by Urban Planner John Jerdi, but now since zlgdesign's involvement the entire masterplan has been re-designed to generate more value and sales revenue.

A modern garden city in its own right, the three white towers will look into Parcel 3, to be designed soon, perhaps in collaboration with at least 5 reknown British Architects, amongst them David Adjaye Associates, Conran Design, Make Architects, Thomas Heatherick and Benoy.

Parcel 1 has every single unit facing the vast open spaces of Kenny Heights, and is remarkably located within 5 minutes of the King's palace grounds. Sir Norman Foster and Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects have now commenced preliminary work on Parcels 3 and 6, to be launched and developed immediately after Parcel 1 and parcel 4.

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...wow...check out the architects 4 dis project...crazy dude!!!...

I don't mind a piece of that...

It's like an architectural orgy :P

well i think dis project can consider dead ah since Merill Lynch went bankrup yesterday...

well i think dis project can consider dead ah since Merill Lynch went bankrup yesterday...

merill lynch did not went bankrup. it was bought over by bank of america for USD50 billion. after the aqusition, it will become one of the biggest bank on the planet.

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wouldn't they want to reserve some of the green area for public park or somethin?...sorry, if my question annoy some of you, but i just want you to know that i'm a big sustainable development advocator..;)

DutaLand’s development plan stalls
by Racheal Lee Mei Nyee
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KUALA LUMPUR: DutaLand Bhd formerly known as Mycom Bhd became a victim of the global financial crisis when an agreement to jointly develop several parcels of land in the Mont’Kiara-Sri Hartamas area, which was supposed to form the backbone of its revival, with several foreign parties fell through.

Yesterday, DutaLand announced the termination of the conditional joint venture and shareholders’ agreement with several parties for the 8.78-acre (3.55ha) mixed development located in the vicinity of Mont’Kiara/Sri Hartamas which carried an estimated gross development value of RM1.8 billion.

The agreement, which was signed on Nov 1 last year, involved Dutaland’s wholly-owned subsidiary, KH Estates Sdn Bhd, Olympia Properties Sdn Bhd, Kenny Heights Central Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Allied Parade Sdn Bhd), Kenny Heights Westcity Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Asas Galian Sdn Bhd) with Stonehage Westcity Property Fund Limited and its wholly-owned subsidiary, SWX Malaysia Ltd.

DutaLand said that the agreement was terminated with consent from all parties due to the current market conditions and certain conditions precedents was not fulfilled within the agreed time frame.

“Accordingly, all the other ancillary agreements entered into in connection with the agreement comprising the share sale agreement, the land sale agreement, the infrastructures agreement and the development management-cum-sale and marketing agreement all dated Nov 1, 2007, which are inter-conditional with the agreement have also been terminated,” the company said.

Following the termination of the agreement, the company said the letter of intent between KH Land Sdn Bhd and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd on Sept 4 last year for a proposed joint venture to develop land totalling 16.2 acres located in the vicinity of Kenny Heights/Mont’Kiara area has also lapsed.

After more than seven years, Dutaland and its sister company Olympia Industries Bhd were restructured last year. The restructuring scheme was based on the development of some 73.44 acres of prime land in the Mont’Kiara/Sri Hartamas area.

On another matter, Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis REIT) Managers Bhd, the management company of Axis REIT, said the deposit paid to the solicitors of OSK Trustees Berhad, the trustee of Axis Real Estate Investment Trust (Axis-REIT) and Well-Built Holdings Sdn Bhd as stakeholders amounting to RM2.7 million has been duly refunded and received by Axis-REIT yesterday.

The refund was made following the termination of the sale and purchase agreements to purchase two parcels of land in Johor on Oct 20.

DutaLand's resilience put to the test
By Chong Jin Hun
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With lean times already making an impact, the resilience of DutaLand Bhd's corporate image makeover is being put to the test. First, the oil palm plantation firm has to contend with the current weakness in the commodity price. Then, a planned strategic collaboration between the company and its foreign partner to develop properties in Malaysia has been called off.
DutaLand has come a long way. The company, formerly known as Mycom Bhd, was classified under the Practice Note 4 category in February 2001 due to its loss-making financial position. The company had, since May 2000, undergone a restructuring exercise which included capital reduction and consolidation, a rights issue, debt destructuring, and acquisition of property companies, and land from associate company Olympia Industries Bhd.
The restructuring was completed in April 2007, and the financial year (FY) ended June 30, 2008 is the first full fiscal year since that exercise. Mycom was renamed DutaLand in December 2007 to underscore the importance of property development in the group's future business. However, earnings from its oil palm plantation business still made up 90% of DutaLand's revenue of RM174.69 million in FY2008, while property development constituted 8%. The firm posted a RM37.67 million net profit for the period.
It has not helped that palm oil prices have fallen significantly. Although Malaysian palm oil for January 2009 delivery rose RM10 to RM1,609 a tonne last Friday (Nov 7), the commodity's rates have dipped 62 % from its one-year high of RM4,206 a tonne recorded on March 3 this year. During that period, the price of palm oil declined to a low of RM1,390 a tonne on Oct 24, 2008.
In August this year, DutaLand announced its intention to sell its entire equity interest in wholly owned Tingkayu Plantation Sdn Bhd to YuWang Plantation Sdn Bhd for RM160 million cash. The sale, which is subject to DutaLand shareholders' consent, is expected to result in a disposal gain of approximately RM75.4 million, and will result in future interest savings of RM39 million for DutaLand. Last week, its property unit encountered a setback. On Thursday (Nov 6), the company announced the termination of a planned mixed development within its "Kenny Heights" enclave in Kuala Lumpur due to unfavorable market conditions amid the global financial crisis.
The termination of the project on a 3.5ha (8.78 acre) freehold tract within the upmarket Mont'Kiara and Sri Hartamas areas was also due to certain conditions under the joint venture and shareholders agreement (JVSA) not being fulfilled within the agreed time frame.
The JVSA, signed in November last year, outlines the collaboration between DutaLand's wholly-owned subsidiary KH Estates Sdn Bhd, Olympia Properties Sdn Bhd, Kenny Heights Central Sdn Bhd, and Kenny Heights Westcity Sdn Bhd with UK-based Stonehage Westcity Property Fund Ltd and its wholly-owned subsidiary, SWX Malaysia Ltd.
DutaLand also said a letter of intent dated Sept 4, 2007 between its wholly-owned subsidiary, KH Land Sdn Bhd, and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd for a collaboration to develop 6.5ha (16.2 acres) of land within the Kenny Heights and Mont Kiara enclave had also lapsed.
What actually happened, and will these setbacks jeopardise DutaLand's real estate operations in the long run?
Unlikely, according to a company official. This is because both terminated projects constitute only two of the nine parcels under the 35.2ha (88 acres) Kenny Heights initiative which is due for completion in the next 15 years. The mixed development is expected to have an estimated built-up area of 23 million sq ft of which the commercial portion will account for 70% and residential space 30%.
"The JV is only one part of the Kenny Heights project. Kenny Heights will go on. This (termination) will not have any significant effect on the earnings or net assets per share of the company for the financial year ending June 30, 2009," the official tells The Edge on the telephone.
Kenny Heights' Phase 1 real estate projects are on track. The 9.2ha (23 acres) portion forms the commercial and residential nucleus of Kenny Heights. Phase 1 includes the residential precincts of Kenny Heights Estate, and Kenny Heights Sanctuary, and the commercial enclave of Kenny Heights Central.
In a statement to the exchange last Friday (Nov 7), DutaLand said sales of its maiden parcel - the RM230 million "Kenny Heights Estate" comprising 49 villas have begun via private events, and road shows in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong since April this year.
"Sales have been encouraging, and it is expected to generate a gross development value of RM230 million. Construction is currently ongoing for the villas and is targeted for completion in the fourth quarter of 2010," says DutaLand. Kenny Heights Sanctuary and Kenny Heights Central are due for launch next year.
DutaLand's wholly-owned subsidiary KH Land Sdn Bhd (KHL) had in June 2007 signed a letter of intent (LoI) with UK-based real estate firm Westcity PLC to undertake an estimated RM1.8 billion mixed development on some 4ha (10 acres) of land within the Mont'Kiara enclave, according to filings to the exchange.
Under the LoI, KHL and Westcity will form a JV company on a 60:40 basis based on a consideration value of RM300 million. Information on Westcity's website shows that the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market -listed Westcity jointly owns the €85 million (RM385 million) Stonehage Westcity Property Fund (SWPF) with Stonehage Group.
Westcity's real estate investments comprise its €29 million equity investment in SWPF, to which Westcity is the exclusive property adviser. The firm receives a fee for properties that it sources and the fund acquires.
Note that Westcity sank into the red in the six months ended June 30. It posted a loss after tax of £4.84 million (RM27.14 million ) triggered by an estimated 22% decrease in the value of SWPF's real estate portfolio, according to Westcity's filings to the UK bourse.
Westcity said SWPF's real estate values have shrunk amid a crippling financial liquidity crisis in the US and Europe, resulting in massive write-downs of property values worldwide.
In a separate statement to the exchange, Westcity said current market conditions have prompted the termination of its collaboration with DutaLand. As such, both parties will not pursue the intended tie-up under JV firm Kenny Heights Westcity Sdn Bhd to develop Kenny Heights.
"Following this, neither the SWPF nor the company (Westcity) will have any further involvement with the Kenny Heights development project," Westcity says.
At a glance, it is safe to assume that DutaLand is operating on a stronger platform now following the completion of its restructuring. It is also worth noting that the company's palm oil, and real estate operations are cyclical businesses which are vulnerable to market conditions.
Going forward, it will be interesting to see how DutaLand's current team under the stewardship of group managing director Datuk Yap Yong Seong steers the company to greater heights and continues generating wealth for its shareholders.

Dutaland expects Kenny Heights to draw wide interest
By RACHAEL KAM


DUTALAND Bhd anticipates drawing the interest of local and foreign investors for its Kenny Heights integrated midtown development.

Over the years, almost every single piece of land in Kuala Lumpur has been occupied, given the massive property developments, and now there is not much freehold land left.

The popularity of properties in Kuala Lumpur, one of Asia’s throbbing business and financial hubs, has boosted property prices skyhigh.

Dutaland group managing director Datuk Yap Yong Seong said Kenny Heights was perhaps the last mixed-use development in the Mont’ Kiara, Damansara Heights and Kenny Hills areas.

“Location is the key to success for any major property development,” he said, adding that Kenny Heights was sited just 5km north of central Kuala Lumpur.

Dutaland, formerly Mycom Bhd, bought the 88-acre freehold land 32 years ago. The land is jointly owned by Dutaland’s wholly-owned subsidiary KH Estates Sdn Bhd (58%) and Olympia Properties Sdn Bhd (42%), a unit of Olympia Industries Bhd.


“We are not in a hurry for new launches. The most important thing is to offer good schemes to the investors and have a proper project planning.”

Yap believes that investors would knock on the company’s door if it offered a good scheme with quality properties.

There are six architects involved in this development. We have spent tens of millions of ringgit on the layout alone. We want to build a second Suria KLCC,” he said. :banana::banana:

Kenny Heights is being developed by Dutaland’s wholly-owned subsidiary KH Land Sdn Bhd.

Yap said Kenny Heights was ideally sited for living or business as it had ready access to highways – Sprint, NKVE and Jalan Duta – linking it to the city centre, Petaling Jaya, KL Sentral and the KL International Airport.

Divided into nine parcels, Kenny Heights will be developed over the next 15 years. The entire development comprises residences, offices, hotels, retail space, medical centre, art gallery, school and design centre.

The proposed development has been approved for a gross floor area of about 23 million sq ft, of which 70% would be commercial properties and 30% residential.

Yap said Kenny Heights would be shaped by some of the world’s premier architects and designers.

The first phase of Kenny Heights, covering 23 acres, includes Kenny Heights Estate (Estate), Kenny Heights Sanctuary (Sanctuary) and Kenny Heights Central (Central).

Yap said half of the 49 four-storey luxurious town villas in the Estate had been sold since April through private events and roadshows in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong. Of the buyers, 40% were foreigners.

He said the villa’s signature feature was a 36ft-long private swimming pool in a garden in the master room. The villas consist of four to five bedrooms each and have built-up areas from 5,300 sq ft to 6,700 sq ft. They are priced from RM900 to RM1,700 per sq ft.

“The Estate is expected to draw a gross development value of RM200mil and is projected to be ready by the fourth quarter of 2010,” Yap said.

After launching the Sanctuary condominium next March, the developer will also launch Central in the same year. :banana::banana:

The 10-acre Central will comprise hotel and hotel residences, terrace villas and serviced apartments as well as a neighbourhood retail component.

Asian Finance Bank Bhd, the financier for Kenny Heights development, aims to bring in foreign investors, especially from the Middle East.

On other Dutaland projects, Yap said 60% of its serviced apartments in The Regent Residences KL had been sold since the soft launch in April.

The size of the 115 serviced apartments ranges from 548 to 3,719 sq ft and the units are priced from US$400,000.

Luxury Residence of Kenny Heights Estate in Kuala Lumpur

Hong Kong

November 18, 2008






Luxury Residence of Kenny Heights Estate in Kuala Lumpur
Presenting a Unique Address for Exclusivity and High-end Lifestyle


KH Land Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dutaland Bhd, now opens its residential masterpiece - Kenny Heights Estate for sale in Hong Kong. With an established neighbourhood for exclusivity and high-end lifestyle, Kenny Heights Estate presents a unique address nestled away from the city bustle. During the period from 22 to 23 November 2008, Colliers International will host an exhibition for Kenny Heights Estate at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. Besides, the development is also exhibited in the developer’s booth in MIPIM Asia in Hong Kong from 19 to 21 November 2008.

Kenny Heights Estate is one of the residential grounds in Kenny Heights, an integrated midtown development approved for a gross floor area of about 23 million square feet with 70% commercial properties and 30% residential development. The 88-acre freehold land will offer a gateway development embodying the capital’s growing design awareness as well as its aspirations for a better quality of life. The overall master plan will provide an extensive range of commercial and residential properties combining with top notch infrastructure that is crafted to take care of the wellbeing of cultural, academic, medical and social aspects. Kenny Heights will house residences, offices, hotels, a shopping centre, a medical centre, art gallery, school and design centre.

In addition, its location within the District Commercial Centre under the Draft Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020, immediately positioned it as a strategic gateway ideal for living or for business. The city’s zoning plan includes the proposed extension of urban rail network, which will further enhance the development’s accessibility.

Kenny Heights is nestled within the high affluent neighborhoods of Mont Kiara, Damansara Heights and Kenny Hills, which are home to numerous upper class residents and prominent figures of Malaysia and the growing expatriate community. The development looks inward, shielding the community from the bustle of Kuala Lumpur’s highway, thus provides a private sanctuary environment yet enjoying convenient accessibility. Kenny Heights is only 5 km north of central Kuala Lumpur with ready access to major highways linking to the city centre, KL Sentral rail station and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Kenny Heights Estate, Kenny Heights Sanctuary and Kenny Heights Central, which cover 23 acres, will form as the phase one of the development. Kenny Heights Estates consists of 49 terrace villas with a private swimming pool in each unit. Kenny Heights Sanctuary consists of four blocks of residential towers of which two of the towers will be Conran Residence – branded towers – the first officially branded scheme internationally by the acclaimed Conran and Partners. Kenny Heights Central will offer residences, hotel and hotel residence as well as neighborhood retail with alfresco dining and entertainment options.


Kenny Heights Estate
Kenny Heights Estate is inspired by the theme breathing space and privacy where Kengo Kuma, master in harmonizing his design philosophy with local culture and conditions have created unique exclusive villa home designs, which incorporate nature into the living spaces.

The building architecture design is elegant and understated while the interiors is based on the concept of openness – from indoor to outdoor – to ensure the visual connection with nature while creating a healthy and tranquil living environment.

The villa designed by Kengo Kuma features exterior wooden louver screen on the façade and roof top for a sense of transparency and translucency, which also acts as an effective shade to filter sunlight while creating interesting shadows. Some of the units will have a unique indoor green vertical wall and landscape with tropical green designed by Patrick Blanc, a botanist and the inventor of the Vertical Garden, also known as the Living Wall.

In addition to the most compelling combination of effortless style, quality finishes and state-of-art security features, Kengo Kuma provides the added touch with the design of a distinct clubhouse with a 25-meter swimming pool.

The four-storey luxury villas are expected to complete in 4Q 2010. Each of them enjoys the exclusive use of private elevator, swimming pool (8 ft x 36 ft) and garage. They feature a mix of 4 and 5 bedrooms with sizes ranging from 5,229 sq ft to 6,664 sq ft. In addition to air conditioners (in living, dining, dry kitchen and all bedrooms) and hot water system for all bathrooms, the villas are equipped with luxurious finishes and sanitary fittings, for example, Kohlers with imported marbles. Other fitouts include designer kitchens with cooktops, cookerhood and built-ins, and designer wardrobes to master and second bedroom. In terms of information technology equipment, residents will enjoy wireless broadband internet access.

Apart from the villas’ design and fitouts, the developer understands the importance of security for residents looking for high-end living. Built-in alarm systems will be provided to ensure privacy. Besides, CCTVs will be installed at surrounding walls and security cards are required for access.

The unique features of the living environment and facilities provided in Kenny Heights Estate are designed to the highest standards. The development features vertical landscaping gardens at different locations, which can cool surrounding air and create desirable environments. Besides, residents can enjoy their leisure time in the private clubhouse with various facilities such as 25-metre lap pool, wading pool, Jacuzzi spa pool, roof top terrace, dining area, wine bar, open-air lounge, BBQ deck, gymnasium, spa treatment room, yoga studio, etc.


Kenny Heights Sanctuary

Kenny Heights Sanctuary is designed with nature in mind. Composed of four condominium towers, it will be surrounded by spectacular garden designed by John Van Hage, the youngest gold medal winner in the Chelsea Flower Gardens Shows.

The apartments in two residential towers will be open for registration of interest in Hong Kong. The two 38-storey blocks are estimated to complete in 1Q 2012, providing 168 apartments per block with 4 duplex penthouses. One of the two towers will be a Conran branded residence. :banana::banana:It will include apartments, a sky lounge, a clubhouse floor, restaurants and bars, and concierge services. It will be more of a lifestyle building – the first-of-its-kind, genuine mixed-use scheme.

The apartments feature 4 to 6 bedrooms, with unit sizes ranging from 1,859 sq ft to 3,748 sq ft. They are designed to equip with high quality fitouts, for example, designer kitchen cabinet with Hood & Hob and oven, designer wardrobes to all bedrooms (except maid’s room), air conditioning (except in wet kitchen, maid’s room and utility room) and centralized hot water system. Besides, residents can have wireless broadband internet access, and each apartment will have 2 to 3 car park bays. In terms of security, the development will be equipped with smart home integration system/security card access system, CCTV at selected common areas, and perimeter fencing or surrounding walls.

In order to meet the demand of residents with different interests, the development offers various types of facilities and services, such as six spectacular gardens designed by Landscape London, private spa operated the world-class Six Senses, swimming pools, indoor tennis courts, sky lounge, club house, wine bar & restaurant, multi-purpose hall, business centre, games room / reading room, changing room, gymnasium, audio-video room, indoor and outdoor children’s playground, nursery, etc.


Property Investment
In Kenny Heights Estate, the luxury villas’ sales price ranges from USD250 (RM900) per sq ft to USD 472 (RM1700) per sq ft, while the apartments’ sales price starts from USD197 (RM710) per sq ft. Interested buyers can now enjoy different sales incentives, for example, *developer interest bearing scheme up to 80%. With the unique location and high-end living, Kenny Heights Estate is a valuable opportunity for buyers looking for luxury residences in Kuala Lumpur. The weakening of the ringgit against US dollar makes it an ideal time for foreign investors to lock-in lower prices, yielding higher returns. Long-term real estate prospects in Malaysia remain undiminished despite the global economic challenges.


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Kuala Lumpur project is attracting international buyers

Posted by Kevin Brass in Asia real estate, News, General
International buyers are playing a key role in the early growth of Kenny Heights, an 88-acre site which hopes to develop as a Beverly Hills-like suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

Since the first phase of the development went on sale in April—49 villas designed by Kengo Kuma, priced between $1.3 million and $1.6 million (RM 4.6 million-RM 5.8 million)—more than 40 percent of the buyers have been from outside Malaysia, according to Dato Jeff Yap, executive director of KH Land Sdn Bhd, the project developer. Although he declined to say how many units have sold, the international buyers have been from Australia, the U.K., Korea, Japan and the Middle East, he said.

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Kenny Heights Estate

The developer, a subsidiary of Dutaland Bhd, is “unveiling” the master plan this week at MIPIM Asia, the industry event in Hong Kong. Dutaland also developed the K Residence, the tallest luxury condo development in Kuala Lumpur.

Kenny Heights will be developed over 15-years, including an array of commercial and residential space designed by such architects as Foster + Partners, Adjaye Associates, Conran and Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects.

In addition to the 3.7 acres of Kenny Heights Estate, the first phase will include a nine acre site with condominium towers, including two towers under Sir Terence Conran’s brand, plus a 10-acre site for a hotel, retail space and apartments. The master plan calls for the various elements to be connected by an extensive green belt, gardens and “intimate walkways.” The development is adjacent to the site of the new national palace.


“Kenny Heights will be Kuala Lumpur’s new midtown that offers a gateway development embodying the capital’s growing design awareness, as well as its aspirations for a better quality of life,” Yap said.

Government tax breaks and incentives have helped spark the international market, Yap said. Malaysia’s program allowing foreign buyers to easily gain permanent resident status, Malaysia My Second Home, is also a strong selling point, he said. Coupled with the abolition of a real estate gains tax last April, the measure helped Kuala Lumpur real estate values jump 30 percent over the last 12 months, he said.

check dis out.... 4 blocks 38 storeys luxury residence towers( 2towers will be under Conran Residence)

http://www.kennyheights.com.my

^^check out dis website......

Absolutely great project, looks like Roppongi development if im not mistaken

http://www.kennyheights.com.my/#/?p=central

check dis out...dem...amazing!!!!

I can upload some pictures this month regarding the progress on Kenny Heights opposite of Plaza Damas

^^ dont juz say it....plz do it..hehe

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:master::master: Foster never fail to impress.... hope something great for YNH as well ....

i cant wait 4 da zaha hadid project....6 wellknown architects involved in dis project...

so far still no project from Ando Tadao? :D

if any, then sure japanese will be gila searching for that...

so far still no project from Ando Tadao? :D

if any, then sure japanese will be gila searching for that...


Kuala Lumpur project is attracting international buyers

International buyers are playing a key role in the early growth of Kenny Heights, an 88-acre site which hopes to develop as a Beverly Hills-like suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

Since the first phase of the development went on sale in April—49 villas designed by Kengo Kuma, priced between $1.3 million and $1.6 million (RM 4.6 million-RM 5.8 million)—more than 40 percent of the buyers have been from outside Malaysia, according to Dato Jeff Yap, executive director of KH Land Sdn Bhd, the project developer. Although he declined to say how many units have sold, the international buyers have been from Australia, the U.K., Korea, Japan and the Middle East, he said.

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Kenny Heights Estate



Kengo Kuma kan top japanese architect...

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Creating Kenny Heights
By Johnni Wong

Kengo Kuma in Kenny Heights

Photographs courtesy of KH Land

Internationally acclaimed architect Kengo Kuma’s approach towards 21st Century architecture is to “break the solid box of 20th Century building design”.

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In a recent interview in Kuala Lumpur about his latest residential project in Malaysia, the 54-year-old architect is fond of referring to terms like “organic”, “lightness and darkness” and “silhouette” in reference to his designs.

“How to combine architecture and Nature is one of the most important issues of our time,” says the maestro, who is designing 21 “town villas” in a residential enclave in the suburbs of Sri Hartamas. Marketed as Kenny Heights, Kuma is involved in a component development touted as Kenny Heights Estate.

Ethereal

Among his many “ethereal and evanescent” designs, the award-winning Japanese architect is noted for his Great (Bamboo) Wall House outside Beijing. Completed in 2002, the house is part of an avant garde development by Chinese tycoon Pan Shi Yi, who brought together 12 top architects from across Asia, to realise his dream of a modern day “commune”.

Kuma is known for his unusual handling of glass, wood, and stone in works as diverse as private residences, Buddhist temples and art museums. His acclaimed structures include the Tokyo headquarters of Louis Vuitton, adobe housing for an ancient wooden Buddha, and an observatory that is sunk into a seaside hill.

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The Kenny Heights Estate town villas cost an average of RM1,000 per square foot.

His involvement in the Kenny Heights Estate project is due to the invitation of property developer Datuk Jeff Yap, who heads KH Land Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Dutaland Bhd.

Although the architect has many offers around the world to create exclusive developments, he admits to having a particular fondness for Malaysia. He has visited the country half a dozen times, including a lecture stint at the Malaysian Institute of Architecture in KL.

“I love the KL atmosphere and for me to work in this type of climate is very exciting,” said Kuma. “My family comes from Nagasaki, in the south of Japan, which has a similar weather and I like this sort of warm weather.”

Apparently, the architect was impressed with Yap’s passion for modern architecture in their email correspondence and decided to take up this project.

“This development is a collection of many small projects. Each has a different concept and the common theme is to live in harmony with Nature,” explained Kuma. “In combining architecture and Nature, I want to create a semi-outdoor space with an interplay of light and shadow, as part of the natural effects of sunlight.

“I always try to venture out of the modernist design concept, of just creating a box, (flat) without shadows. My design seeks to break away from that minimalist box, with features that place emphasis on the roof, screens and natural light.” When asked whether the whole design concept was created by him or his associates in his Tokyo firm, Kengo Kuma and Associates, established in 1990, the architect declared: “ I did everything.”

Key Design

Apparently, Kuma’s key design concepts include a facade screen and an 11m-long (36ft) swimming pool in the garden of the master room.

“The pool forms the connection between the architecture and the landscape. The screen is the filter between the exterior and the interior. At the same time, it can combine the elements of the outdoor and the interior.

“The vertical louvres will wrap around the facade to create the screen.”

One of the key components of the design will be eco-wood (mix of powdered wood and plastic) which is commonly used in Japan for pool decks. And as temperatures in summer in Japan can reach 40 degrees Celsius, Kuma thinks the wood is suitable for local conditions but local eco-wood doesn’t seem to meet his standards. He is considering using Japanese eco-wood at the time of this interview.

What of working conditions in Malaysia? “Certainly the mentality of the client can change the (design) concept. And the collective decision of board directors is always conservative. Therefore, the decision of a single decision-maker can be very dynamic. Working with Jeff is very comfortable,” said Kuma.

Kenny Heights, named after Kenny Hills and Damansara Heights, is located 5km north of central Kuala Lumpur. It is in proximity to the neighbourhoods of Mont’ Kiara, Bangsar and Damansara Heights.

Kenny Heights Estate, spanning 1.5ha (3.7 acres), consists of a total of 49 units of 4-storey town villas (row houses) with built-up ranging from 477sq m to 603sq m (5,300sq ft to 6,700sq ft.) Prices start from RM4mil.

Certain villas will have an indoor vertical garden created by Patrick Blanc, a well-known botanist and creator of the Vertical Garden.

The entire Kenny Heights Development (KHD) site comprises a total of 35.2ha (88 acres) of freehold land that will be developed over the next 15 years.

Phase One covers 9.2ha (23 acres) and forms the commercial and residential nucleus of Kenny Heights. It includes the residential precincts of Kenny Heights Estate and Kenny Heights Sanctuary, and the commercial precinct of Kenny Heights Central.

I thought this Project would fail because initially the ex-bankrupt developer partnered the already KO-ed Merrill Lynch (i mean merged wit BoA) ...

Kengo Kuma kan top japanese architect...

no he's not. none of his works are considered famous/iconic.

Kenny Heights Sanctuary, Dutamas

This is the second phase of Kenny Heights being launched now, which consists of 4 condominium towers. The first phase was the launch of its 49 units of villas called Duta Villa. The entire Kenny Heights project by Olympia Land sits on a vast 88 acre tract, which calls for some 15 years in total before everything gets developed. Buyers will have to be patient to reap its rewards as residents will definitely be hounded by the issue of ongoing construction sites just outside their residence. Given time, if all moves well, Kenny Heights should be buzzing with commercial activities, and that would indeed boost demand for the residential units there. The Sri Hartamas and Mont' Kiara areas were never really known for hotel services prior to this, and after having observed how Mutiara Damansara shot through the roof with its demand for Royale Bintang Hotel, I won't be surprised if the hotel suites offered in Kenny Heights will be much in demand once completed. Of course, this will pose as competition for the individual owners where rental is concerned, but we have to bear in mind that with apartment units, rental is usually long term, and rental rates are therefore lower on average. Not exactly in the same kind of competition league, so I think owners can rest assured that they are in fact targetting a different group of tenants. The hotel suites will be more for business travellers and tourists alike, not so much expatriates. From RM710 persf onwards for the residential units launched here, it does seem a little steep, but that is how pricing has become for the Mont' Kiara / Hartamas / Dutamas area anyway. High end ones are fetching some RM900-1000 persf now, with more affordable ones at RM500-700 persf, while the lower end older units are within RM400-500 persf now. Not surprising that Olympia Land has decided to price theirs above RM700 persf given their vast plans for this project. I am sure that they foresee the potential here, hence the bold decision. I have no qualms that this area is in fact in the Dutamas district because in essence, it sits right across the bridge from Mont' Kiara. Some might even mistake it for Mont' Kiara, yes, it is that close by. It has all the convenience of nearby amenities like Solaris Mont' Kiara and Solaris Dutamas. Apart from the planned schools at Kenny Heights itself, Mont' Kiara has a few internaitonal schools to boost too. So far so good, Kenny Heights seems to be a rather promising area to invest into. Do remember that although the economy might seem a little down now, things always move in cycles, and by the time Kenny Heights is more or less established, you could be looking at the next economic boom already. So, don't judge the project on current market sentiments alone. What comes down always goes back up eventually.


Location : Dutamas
Tenure : Freehold
Total land area : 88 acres
Consists of :
Residential, Hotel, Office suites, Retail lots, Schools and cultural amenities
To be developed : Within 10-15 years
Developer : Olympia Land
Launched now : Kenny Heights Sanctuary
Type : 4 towers of condominium units (2 towers to be launched first)
Built-up : 1859sf - 3748sf

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Kenny Heights: Dutaland Bhd, through its 100% owned subsidiary KH Land Sdn Bhd, has also been quite bold and innovative with its plans for its 88-acre freehold Kenny Heights project in Kuala Lumpur.

I recently viewed its Kenny Heights Estate (one of the phases) show villa (next to the Hartamas Shopping Centre). It comprises 49 units of luxurious four-storey town villas with built-up from 5,300 to 6,700 sq ft. Prices start from RM4.5mil.

Its signature feature is a 36ft-long private swimming pool in a garden of the master bedroom. It has a private lift. The villas are designed by Kengo Kuma.

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/15/business/2711281&sec=business

THere's alot of new info on the website... WOWOWOOW

This gonna be KL's most promising project in years to come!

KENNY HEIGHTS - A vision of Community for 2021

Encompasses:
- Kenny Heights Sanctuary - villas, at least 4 condos
- Kenny Heights Central - international piazza, at least 3x 50storey including what could be KL's first 7star hotel
- Kenny Heights Estate - several midrises

Future developments
- a tower taller than 50storey
- business centre

The project will be developed over 15-years, including an array of commercial and residential space designed by the largest grouping of world-class architects in Malaysia such as Foster and Partners, Adjaye Associates, Benoy, Sir Terence Conran and Partners, John Van Hage, Kengo Kuma, Patrick Blanc and Zaha Hadid Architects.

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Beverly Hills in Kuala Lumpur?

A posh development rivalling Beverly Hills (Los Angeles), Notting Hill (London)
or Roponggi Hills (Tokyo) right here in Kuala Lumpur?

The masterplan for Kenny Heights, an 88-acre freehold integrated midtown
development in Sri Hartamas, KL — which may well be the Beverly Hills of KL —
has just been unveiled by KH Land, the developer of Kenny Heights, after several
years in the making.

KH Land, a subsidiary of DutaLand Bhd, had revealed the masterplan of the
project, with an expected gross development value (GDV) of RM2 billion, at MIPIM
Asia, a real estate industry event in Hong Kong recently.

The entire Kenny Heights development will take at least 15 years and will
involve some of the most well-known names in the architectural world today, says
Datuk Yap Yong Seong, DutaLand group managing director when met at the Kenny
Heights booth at MIPIM Asia. The architects include Kengo Kuma, Conran &
Partners, Adjaye Architects, Foster & Partners and Zaha Hadid who are involved
in various niche projects in different parcels of the development.

Yap believes there is nothing like it right now in the Klang Valley in terms of
size, location, concept and the number of "premier" architects involved.

"Kenny Heights is perhaps the last mixed-use development of this size in the
Mont'Kiara, Damansara Heights and Kenny Hills area," he says.

Divided into nine parcels zoned for mixed use with retail, cultural and
commercial offerings next to residential towers and townhouses, all the parcels
and buildings will be interlinked on the ground via walkways, designer gardens
and green areas.

The proposed development has been approved for a gross floor area of about 23
million sq ft, of which 70% would be commercial and 30% residential. The
development comprises 12.2 million sq ft of residential space, 1.8 million sq ft
of hotels, 4.6 million sq ft of office space, 3.2 million sq ft of retail space
and 1 million sq ft for schools and cultural amenities.

"When we first acquired the land in 1976, it was a rubber estate. Our plans have
been incubating for more than five years. For a project of this size on such
prime land, we want to take our time," says Yap.

Despite the current gloomy outlook on the economy and the property market, the
developer hopes to bank on the project's prime location, and size, which will
keep it busy for at least another decade.

However, the economic crisis has not left the developer unscathed. Just before
MIPIM Asia in Hong Kong, the developer announced the termination of proposed
joint ventures (JVs) to develop two parcels involving 3.55ha in Kenny Heights —
the proposed JVs were with Stonehage Westcity Property Fund Ltd and Merrill
Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd.

Hence, MIPIM Asia provided the developer an opportunity to introduce Kenny
Heights to potential global investors.

"We are open to investors interested in partnering us in developing the various
parcels in Kenny Heights or for en bloc sales at our development," says Yap.

One of the financiers for Kenny Heights is Islamic bank Asian Finance Bank Bhd
(AFB). Its main shareholders are Qatar Islamic Bank and associates (70%), RUSD
Investment Bank Inc of Saudi Arabia (20%) and Global Investment House of Kuwait
(10%).

AFB opened its first branch in KL in 2007. AFB head of asset management Mohd
Zamri Sharif, who was at MIPIM to talk on investing in Malaysian real estate,
says AFB aims to bring in foreign investors for the Kenny Heights project,
especially from the Middle East.

"AFB was recently appointed as the arranger for sales of units in parcels 1 and
3, including en bloc sales, particularly to investors in the Middle East
markets. AFB is also providing financing of up to RM85 million to KH Land for
Parcel 3," he says.

The first phase of Kenny Heights is focused on Parcels 1 to 3 covering 23 acres
and comprising the residential enclave of Kenny Heights Sanctuary (Parcel 1),
Kenny Heights Estates (Parcel 2) and the commercial precinct of Kenny Heights
Central (Parcel 3). They form the commercial and residential nucleus of Kenny
Heights.

Kenny Heights Estate
The maiden parcel of Kenny Heights Estate is on a 3.7-acre site off Jalan Sri
Hartamas. Comprising 49 four-storey villas with a GDV of RM200 million, they
were open for sale in April 2008 through private events and roadshows, including
in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Designed by Kengo Kuma, more than 70% of the units have been sold so far of
which 40% are foreign purchasers. Prices of the 4-storey villas start from RM900
to RM1,700 psf with units ranging from 5,229 to 6,664 sq ft. Each villa has a
private lift and an 8ft by 36ft swimming pool on the top floor. The corner
villas feature a unique indoor green vertical garden designed by French botanist
and inventor Patrick Blanc. Piling has begun at Kenny Heights Estate and is
expected to be completed in early 2011.

]Kenny Heights Sanctuary
Although uncertain when the next launch at Kenny Heights will be — considering
the global economic downturn — the developer recently opened the first two
blocks of condominiums at Kenny Heights Sanctuary for registrations. These are
two of the four condominium towers at Kenny Heights Sanctuary, a nine-acre
condominium precinct where one of the towers will become the first
Conran-branded residences in the world. :banana::banana:

The first two blocks contain 168 condominium units and four duplex penthouses
per block. Indicative prices start from RM710 psf for a GDV of about RM800
million. Unit sizes range from 1,859 to 3,748 sq ft. John Van Hage, the winner
of the 1991 gold medal in London's prestigious annual Chelsea Flower Show, will
be the landscape designer for this parcel. :banana::banana:

The Conran Residences
The London-based architecture and design firm of Conran & Partners is creating
its first branded residence at one of the condo blocks in Kenny Heights
Sanctuary. The company will be responsible for the architecture, the interior
design and the management of the property, including maintenance of the sky
lounge, clubhouse, restaurants and the concierge services.

The Conran Residences will comprise 170 luxury apartments in a 38-storey tower
with a sky lounge on the top floor. :banana::banana:

"It will epitomise everything that the Conran Group believes in, such as
fantastic interiors plus a high level of service," says Richard Doone, managing
director of Conran & Partners who was at MIPIM Asia.

"This is the first time we are given the opportunity to bring all our skills
from the design side, the restaurant group and our Conran shop into one overall
scheme," he adds.

Founded by Sir Terence Conran, one of the world's best known designers,
restaurateurs and retailers, Conran & Partners has established a reputation for
beautiful and practical designs in projects that span the globe, including
developments such as the 42-storey Roppongi Hills in Tokyo and the 19th
century-styled townhouse at 81, Victor Hugo Avenue in Paris.

The Conran Group is also known for its Conran Restaurants and The Conran Shop
selling exclusively selected contemporary designed furniture and home
furnishings.
If everything works out, Conran & Partners will create a second Conran-branded
tower at Kenny Heights Sanctuary. "We will see how things develop in Parcel 1
first. We are still young and new in Malaysia so we are starting with a single
scheme first. When our reputation grows in a country, we grow along with it,"
says Doone.

Despite the current bearish market scenario, he is optimistic about the firm's
involvement in Kenny Heights.

"When it comes to projects of this size, where the first parcel will only be
completed in two to three years, we have to take a long-term view," adds Doone.

Working on one project with other award-winning architects is nothing new to the
firm and although there may be differences, everyone is used to the dynamics of
working in teams.

"For Roppongi Hills, the project was created by tapping the skills of a range of
international designers and architects working on different parcels of the site.
In Parcel 3 (Kenny Heights Central where Conran & Partners is also involved in),
for example, we have Conran, Foster and Adjave working together. Besides, all
are London-based firms," says Doone.

Kenny Heights Central
The 10-acre Kenny Heights Central comprises hotel and hotel residences, terraced
villas and serviced apartments, retail podium as well as a neighbourhood retail
component. It is currently awaiting planning approval from Kuala Lumpur City
Hall, says the developer.

In this Parcel 3, says Doone, Conran is designing the interior and exterior of
some serviced residences above a retail podium as well as the exterior of the
retail podium which will have half-million sq ft of space. The interior will be
designed by Benoy. :banana::banana:

On the drawing board is a hotel designed by Foster & Partners. Meanwhile, Foster
and Adjaye Architects are involved in designing the highrise residences there.

................huge project!!!!.............:banana::banana:

Kenny Heights Estate


Kenny Heights Estate is the exclusive private residence of Kenny Heights, a project envisioned to be the new integrated midtown development of Kuala Lumpur. The Kenny Heights development, measuring about 88 acres, has been approved for a gross floor area of about 23 million square feet with 70% commercial and 30% residential development. The overall scheme will provide an extensive range of building uses connected by an urban fabric that combines generous public spaces, such as the piazza, with intimate walkways, lanes and lush gardens to create engaging shifts of character and surprise throughout the development. The master plan allows for the creation of a destination which integrates with cultural, academic, medical and social institutions for the whole community – from residents to office workers – to grow, interact and feel a sense of place – the result, a greener, healthier and inspiring neighbourhood.

FACTS:
Project name: Kenny Heights Estate
Developer: KH Land Sdn Bhd
Product type: Town Villa
Location: Sri Hartamas/Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur
Launch date: 2008
Expected completion date: 2011
Tenure: freehold
Total land area: approx. 3.7 acres
Number of units/villas: 49
Plot area range (if applicable):
Unit sizes/built-up area range: 5,300 – 6,700 sq feet
Price range: From RM4.5 million
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates
Interior design: Richard & Roger Design
Landscape architect: Clouston Design
Common facilities: Clubhouse, swimming pool, sauna, gym and F&B

Sales Office contact details:
KH Land Sdn Bhd, Kenny Heights Sales Gallery, Ground Floor, Block P13 & P15, Plaza Damas, Sri Hartamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tel: +603 6201 8388
Fax: +603 6201 2898

Went to KH Land sales office in Damas today to check out their latest. They're taking bookings now for their 1st of 4 Towers at Kenny Heights Sanctuary. Had their soft launch in HKG much earlier. Their official launch here will be sometime in June.

Sizes starts from 1,859, 2,385, 2,719 and 3,748 sq ft respectively. Priced about 750 psf. For first 50 purchasers there's a 5% disc. Comes with 2 carparks. Current block 168 units but in total for 4 blocks it's expected to be approx 600 units, spread over 10 acres of land.

750psf..

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website updated..more projects soon..wow!!

by far the best project in kl at the moment...hopefully it will become a reality....

I think its gonna remain a 'vision' for a long time before it becomes a reality...

VISION OF KUALA LUMPUR MIDTOWN

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VISION OF KUALA LUMPUR MIDTOWN

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totally speechless!!!

they can have 1 or 2 towers with the weird design, but definitely not all 4 towers.
it will look like a one complex instead of "new downtown development".

VISION OF KUALA LUMPUR MIDTOWN

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alien :crazy:

they can have 1 or 2 towers with the weird design, but definitely not all 4 towers.
it will look like a one complex instead of "new downtown development".


well no need 2 worry my fren...6 top architects involved with dis project and each of them with their own design/project.... dis project by norman foster juz 1 of them!!!

this will redefined kl!amazing!

actually, it ll redefined the mont kiara skyline. the norman foster towers plot is in the highrise cluster of parcel 4, along the sprint highway towards nkve link.

Finally sumthin worth droolin about..let's just hope they get built and not slated for year 3000!

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where is zaha hadid rendering?

VISION OF KUALA LUMPUR MIDTOWN

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the question is; who can be and capable to be the contractor...? :)

VISION OF KUALA LUMPUR MIDTOWN

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imagine sumtin like dis in kl....

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Yesterday !

014 Tower

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rizal,u the man!!very cool pics!!ya la...if only this building in kl.

Kenny Height Estates (parcel 2)

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Kenny Height Santuary (Parcel 1)

The parcel plot (white hoarding)
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Conran first designed tower ll be part of the 4 towers planned in this parcel.
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wow i didnt know they started construction aled

not sure bout zaha hadid's work in this project

Kenny Height Central (Parcel 3) - hidden behind the left hill. (across parcel 1)
The cluster ll house the foster designed 3 blocks 50-storey towers and adjaye 45 storey tower.

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wow i didnt know they started construction aled

not sure bout zaha hadid's work in this project

hope she's still in.

6 Top architects & 2 landscape architects involved in dis huge mega project

1.Adjaye Associates - www.adjaye.com
2.Benoy - www.benoy.com
3.Conran & Partners - www.conranandpartners.com
4.Fosters & Partners - www.fosterandpartners.com
5.Kengo Kuma & Associates - www.kkaa.co.jp
6.Zaha Hadid Architects - www.zaha-hadid.com

Landscape Architects
1.John Van Hage - www.johnvanhage.com
2.Patrick Blanc - www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com

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parcel 1

Duta Villa @ Kenny Heights

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Kenny Heights is the latest residential project from KH Land Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Dutaland Berhad. The group bring with it an enviable record and a wealth of experience in developing residential and commercial townships. Amongst its recent projects are K Residence, Kuala Lumpur's first luxury designer residence, and avenue K, one of Kuala Lumpur's most eye-catching, lifestyle designer mall.
Kenny Heights Estate seeks to redefine tropical Asia's communal living. A new generation of terraced residences, Dutavillas, realigns landscape and design with exceptional personal space adding a sense of intimacy to its unique brand of casual luxury. Sheltered within a gated community, Kenny Heights Estate, offers an exclusive environment with 49 residences each with its own private pool.

This is a sanctuary crafted from one word - intimacy. Allthough Duta Villa has been completely sold out, there are approximately 21 units booked by Zye International which has been working closely with KH Land Sdn Bhd and those units are currently available for sale.

THE ELEMENT OF PROTECTIONS
This new alignment of private residence and casual luxury gives Kenny Heights Estate a modern, distinctive personality synthesised with particular attention to design form and function. With a most compelling combination of effortless style and quality finishes, it promises an enviable lifestyle for its residents affording them an air of quiet luxury. Kenny Heights Estate consists of:
10 individual designer configurations
49 dutavillas
49 private pools, each 36 foot in length
49 personal elevators
49 sundeck baths
49 two car garages
1 pool house with a 30m sky pool
Spa pool
Secure compound systems

A PRIVATE ISLAND, INTIMATE REFLECTIONS
Intimacy and quality time at the top of your villa - a personal perspective from your 36 foot private pool.

LIMITED EDITION
DESIGN BY KENGO KUMA
"Once perceived as a symbol of wealth and luxury, I envision the pool as an element of nature. Water, an essential element in human life, is integrated into the living spaces and provides movement to the environment. Thus the pool on the top level creates a fluid quality while providing space for relaxation and opportunity for human to be close contact with nature.

With the louver system incorporating with water element, the architecture appears to be a moving object. While the water moves through the wind, the louver creates constant shifting of shadows.

In this natural and dynamic environment of dwelling, water, greenery, and human body are integrated, thus the most natural way of living is formed."

AN EXCLUSIVE ENCLAVE
Kenny Heights Estate offers 49 residences in a private community. Its low density commands a premier living space with a wealth of exclusive amenities. A highly indulgent collection of 20 limited edition villas will be designed by Kengo Kuma, connecting pools and vertical gardens within these residences as an extension of your sanctuary.

SANCTUARY BY KENGO KUMA
The ambience of the master bedroom suite is enhanced by its setting, next to a personal pool. Together with the surrounding gardens, this space crystallizes Kenny Heights Estate unique sense of casual luxury. Perched above the trees, this feature of the villa's modern living space reflects the geometry of the house and redefines swimming with the birds - naughty but very, very L.A Luxe.

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YOUR PRIVATE PARADISE
Like Imagination, Pleasure Knows No Bounds
Indulge yourself with the most luxurious new generation freehold terrace homes in Malaysia.
Immerse yourself in the calming waters of your own private 36 foot pool just outside your bedroom.
Enjoy the luxury and convenience of your own private lift.
Reside in a low density gated community built to the highest standards of privacy and security in a quiet residential neighbourhood.
Enjoy the greenery of the attractively landscaped gardens.

FINER THINGS IN LIFE
Casual Luxury
36' Private Swimming Pool
Private Lift
Designer Kitchen & Wardrobe Built-Ins
Wireless Broadband Internet Access
In-Built Smart Home
Tropical Landscapes

FACILITIES
Jacuzzi Spa Pool
Lap Pool 10m x 30m
Wading Pool
Poolside Lounge
Sunbathing Deck
BBQ Pavilion
Tea Pavilion
Steam & Sauna Room
Gymnasium
Games Room
Multi-Purpose Hall
Entrance Lounge
Children's Playground


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Kenny Heights Estate (Link Bungalow)
Kenny Heights, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
From MYR4,500,000 - MYR10,500,000
Tenure: Freehold
Land Area: 23' X 66' - 36' X 69'
Min. Size: 5299 sq. ft.
Max. Size: 6664 sq. ft.
Listing Price: From MYR4,500,000 - MYR10,500,000
No. of Bedrooms: 4+1&5+1
No. of Bathrooms: 6-7
Total Units/Lots: 49

Facilities


Private Clubhouse

Swimming Pool


Additional Information

Special Features:

-49 exclusive private residences with 50 swimming pools
-36 foot private pool, private elevator and private garage
-Exclusive and gated community
-Luxurious finishes and built-ins
-Designer kitchen and wardrobes
-Indoor vertical gardens (selected units)
-Smart home and security system
-Low density
-Crafted by world-renowned architects, Kengo Kuma Associates & Arc Studio Architecture -Tropical greenery landscape design and indoor vertical garden by renowned designer, Patrick Blanc for selected units

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Kenny Heights

Kenny Heights is a large-scale integrated lifestyle development, spanning 88 acres. Located five kilometers north of central Kuala Lumpur, 70% of which will be developed as commercial real estate with the remaining 30% as high-end residential property.

Compared with similar large-scale development such as Tokyo Midtown, a Mitsui Fudosan development on the last remaining 24 acres of land in the heart of Tokyo, Kenny Heights is a mammoth. Through his involvement in various developments in Tokyo for the Mori Building Company (Japan’s largest developer) namely Moto-Azabu and the similarly scaled Roppongi Hills, he was naturally selected to be involved in Kenny Heights, perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s
incarnation of Tokyo Midtown.

“It is interesting we are doing this amazing job here. I think it’s amazing that Kenny Heights has risen because the residential we did for Roppongi Hills have been so successful. I think we have developed a reputation for being able to give apartments a simple modern style which works with the sort of customers that Kenny Heights is aimed at. It is rather fortunate for us to be chosen,” informs Conran.

Conran & Partners’ maiden project in Kenny Heights is 3 residential blocks, known as S-blocks, located in the mixed commercial parcel, known as Kenny Heights Central. Conran & Partners are responsible for the building architecture and interior design of S-blocks. Aside from Kenny Heights Central’s S-blocks, Sir Terence Conran and his team will also be involved in the residential parcel of Kenny Heights Sanctuary. Two of the four towers will be Conran Residence – branded tower, which is Conran’s first officially-branded scheme
internationally.

Still in its infancy, the developers for Kenny Heights claim to have enlisted international superstars – Adjaye Associates, Benoy, Conran & Partners, Foster + Partners, Kengo Kuma & Associates, Patrick Blanc and John Van Hage - to create an integrated midtown development of a community that brings refreshing opportunities to urban living.

We asked Conran what is his vision for Kenny Heights? – “Luckily, I see that as entirely coinciding with our vision in other words, intelligently designed architecture, a democratic society where we gather a lot of people similar interest and providing the extra things like cafes and sporting facilities that people share. It is rather like a William Morris philosophy. I think it is very interesting and if it works and I hope it will work, I think it will change the attitude of developers around the world.”

Conran adds, “I think Kenny Heights has the promise of being the nearest thing to heaven in any religion could look forward to. Terribly, I never expected to go there. It would be a very nice place to end one’s days I would imagine. I think knitting together not just architecture and buildings and comfortable apartments but the whole infrastructure and how it all works together and what other things happen really building an idealized town with gardens and amusements and sporting activities.”

“To have a client like Jeff is something that rarely occurs for somebody who is so interested and so fascinated, it drives the best of out a designer. He likes cigars as well. He likes food. he likes design”

“I mean what he is trying to do is creating a place that encourages a certain lifestyle.”

“…Just makes you want to do better.”

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Kenny Heights Sanctuary condo lauching soon by Conran & Partners ...4 blocks but they gonna lauched 2 blocks 1st..

smaller units facing MK10 and 11. Bigger units might have KL view.

price from rm750sqft less 10%.

Kenny Heights Sanctuary condo lauching soon by Conran & Partners ...4 blocks but they gonna lauched 2 blocks 1st..

smaller units facing MK10 and 11. Bigger units might have KL view.

price from rm750sqft less 10%.

4 towers comprising of:
2 28 storey towers - 132 units each
2 38 storey towers - 168 units each

Price from RM1.3 million
Penthouses from RM5 million

Kenny Heights Estate (Dutavilla):

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wat hapen 2 the conran residence?? still waiting 4 dis!!

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Kenny Heights Sanctuary


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Kenny Heights Sanctuary, W.P Kuala Lumpur
Ad Type : Sales
Property Type : Condominium (38 storey)
Facilities : 24 X 7 Security, Covered Car Park, CCTV Monitoring, Children Playground, Gymnasium, Multi-Purpose Hall, Nursery, Wireless Broadband At Home
Bedrooms: 4 - 6
Built up: 1,859 - 3,748 sq ft
Facilities include:
6 Landscaped garden, Private spas, Swimming pools, Indoor tennis courts, AV Room, Sky lounge (Conran's tower), Clubhouse, Wine Bar & Restaurant, Business Centre, Game Room/Reading Room,

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Kenny Heights Sanctuary
Surrounded by not just one or two but six majestically unique gardens, Kenny Heights Sanctuary is designed by internationally acclaimed landscape architect, John Van Hage of Landscape London; the youngest gold medal winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Gardens Show and Fiskars Sword of Excellence for best garden in show.

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Development
One of the nine parcels of development for Kenny Heights, this development is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s most affluent addresses – Kenny Hills, Damansara Heights, Mont’ Kiara and Bangsar. A fusion of the two names, Kenny Heights will be the property to watch out for when it unfolds after the completion of the first parcel (Kenny Heights Estate), approximately in the first quarter of year 2011.

Phase one of Kenny Heights Sanctuary presents two 38-storey condominium towers with signature interiors by Hecker Phelan & Guthrie of Australia and Conran & Partners of United Kingdom.

The first Conran Residence-branded tower will come into sight in one of the two towers at Kenny Heights Sanctuary. It will be Conran & Partners’ official-branded scheme internationally, which aims to create a holistic experience, bringing together all the expertise within the Conran Group for a genuine mixed-use scheme. Asides interior design, it will include a Sky Lounge, a clubhouse floor, restaurants and bars, and concierge service.

The development of Kenny Heights Sanctuary will consist of two phases; the first of which is Tower A with interiors by Hacker, Phellan & Guthrie and Tower B with interiors by Conran & Partners. Phase 1 will provide 168 luxury condominiums per block with 4 duplex penthouses.


Built-up Area & Specifications
Condominiums in Kenny Heights Sanctuary feature 4 – 6 bedrooms with unit sizes ranging from 1,859 sq. ft. – 3,748 sq. ft. With awesome panoramic views of the city landscape from the bedroom and dining areas, entertaining is heightened to a new level, literally! Just like all the other residences at Kenny Heights, the units have high quality fittings e.g. a designer kitchen equipped with kitchen cabinets, hood & hobs and oven. Also installed are designer wardrobes in each bedroom (except the maid’s room), centralised air-conditioning systems and centralised hot water systems. Each unit is allotted 2 to 3 parking bays in the garage and for those who want to stay connected in the web world, there is access to wireless broadband internet.


Facilities & Amenities
Catering to a wide array of cultural backgrounds will pose a challenge, even for professional architects and designers. In order to harmonise the needs of their multivariate residents, Kenny Heights commissioned the talent of John Van Hage from Landscape London to design six distinguished, impressive gardens - only to name a few; the Children’s Garden, Water Garden, Sculpture Garden and Scented Garden. Each with their individual themes, the gardens surrounding the towers of Kenny Heights Sanctuary presents an image of artistic harmony between both nature and architectural design.

This does not hinder Kenny Heights Sanctuary from expanding its facilities to modern luxury swimming pools, indoor tennis courts, gymnasium, changing rooms, as well as an outdoor and indoor children’s playground. It does not end there, as unique facilities also include a spectacular sky lounge, a clubhouse, wine bar & restaurant, a business centre, games/reading room as well as a multipurpose hall for functions.

As can be expected of world class developers, the security system exceeds expectations with a smart home integration system or a security card access system. To further heighten security, CCTVs are installed at common areas, perimeter fencing and surrounding walls.

To accentuate the level of sophistication further, the world class spa ‘Six Senses’ has also consorted with developers to operate their private spa in the development. Utilising the knowledge of therapeutic techniques and abiding by the philosophy to offer clients a truly holistic spa experience to rejuvenate and energise, the ‘Six Senses’ spa is a must-visit for residents seeking inner peace and balance.


Accessibility & Community
Strategically located in Damansara Heights, residents only need to travel approximately 5km to reach Kuala Lumpur, with ready access to major highways linking them to the city centre, KL Sentral Rail Station and the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. For the benefit of shopaholics, highway access requires only a brief 10 to 15 minutes to key locations like Bangsar and Mid Valley City. Those unwilling to travel are also not without shopping alternatives, with the Hartamas Shopping Centre located along the main entrance of the development and a myriad of shopping boutiques located around Mont’ Kiara.

In addition, the developer has also planned and will develop over the years luxury hotels, office spaces, retail outlets, public institutions such as a design centre, art gallery, and international schools, as well as a medical centre. It is no wonder that Kenny Heights has been envisioned to be three times the size of the famous Roppingi Hills in Tokyo and four times the size of the Rockefeller Centre in New York (The Star, September 5, 2007).

With all the makings of a distinguishable modern neighbourhood, the paired towers of Kenny Heights Sanctuary emanates a natural atmosphere of holistic peace, truly perfect for those who are seeking a sanctuary within a city.

Overview
Malaysia-based developer, Dutaland, is in the early stages of a project scheduled for completion in 2021: Kenny Heights, an urban development in Kuala Lumpur, will feature a variety of architectural designs by esteemed architects such as Foster and Partners, Kengo Kuma, David Adjaye and Zaha Hadid.

Winkreative’s role was to create a scalable visual identity, an advertising campaign focused on the project’s launch at MIPIM Asia, and a marketing brochure that presented the full extent of the project ambition. Winkreative delivered a fresh approach that cut through the homogenous visual style of property development marketing. Focusing on character and personality rather than buildings, Wink’s advertising and marketing brochure content presented a colourful and human picture of urban life in Malaysia.

http://www.winkreative.com/portfolio/branding/kenny_heights.aspx

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the landscaping looks cool!!! its near the new istana negara am i rite?

the landscaping looks cool!!! its near the new istana negara am i rite?

No. KH Sanctuary is located at parcel 1 (white hoarding). Behind the MK10 & MK11 sites.

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price from 1.2mil to 5.1mil
2blocks 28storey & 2blocks 38storey luxury condo
dis 1 under One Kenny Heights

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Dear sirs/Madam,

Warmest greetings from KH Land Sdn. Bhd.!

Thank you for your interest in Kenny Heights development; we are pleased to inform that our latest condominium development - Kenny Heights Sanctuary is now open for registration (Block A only) and we would like to take this opportunity to share more info about this new development with you.

Kenny Heights Sanctuary, measuring approximately 9 acres consists of four blocks of condominiums; approximately 700 units of apartments within a gated & guarded community.

The first phase of the development comprises of 2 blocks, each at 38-storey, providing 168 apartments per block, 5 units per floor. The apartments feature 3 to 6 bedrooms, with unit sizes ranging from 1,859 sq ft to 3,748 sq ft. They are designed to equip with high quality fit outs, i.e. kitchen cabinet with hood & hob, built-in wardrobes to all bedrooms (except maid’s room), air conditioning (except wet kitchen, maid’s room and utility area), basic lightings (except maid’s room, hot water system and every individual unit will be allocated with minimum 2 car parking bays.

The selling price starts from RM1.4million and we are currently offering a promotional package as below:-
- an early bird discount up to 10%
- an interest absorption scheme up to 80% for Malaysians; up to 70% for foreigners (subject to bank’s approval on loan margin).

For more information about the property, please do not hesitate to contact us at the number given below and we do hope to hear from you soon!

Thank you.

Best Regards
Lai Ju Ping
Kenny Heights Estate
KH Land Sdn Bhd
Block P-1-13 & P-1-15 (Ground Floor)
60 Plaza Damas, Jln Sri Hartamas 1
Sri Hartamas, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: +603-62018388 Fax:+603-62012898
www.kennyheights.com.my

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Does anyone know what is the completion date for Kenny Heights Sanctuary? I can't find it anywhere on the Internet. BTW, what is the take up rate so far? Is it sold out yet? It seems like a decent project at reasonable price.

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Kenny Heights Sanctuary (http://www.propwall.my/kenny_heights/kenny_heights_sanctuary)

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check out the norman foster's kenny heights 1 80storey & 3 50storey towers proposal...

Kenny Heights Sanctuary
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xclusive preview at Star Property Fair
Date - 27-29/11/09
Time - 11am-7pm
Venue - KL Convention Ctr

599 Units
Size-1859sqft - 3748sqft
xpected completion - 3/2013
price - rm1,280.400. - rm5,191,600.
5% bumi discount

Kenny Heights Sanctuary
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xclusive preview at Star Property Fair
Date - 27-29/11/09
Time - 11am-7pm
Venue - KL Convention Ctr

599 Units
Size-1859sqft - 3748sqft
xpected completion - 3/2013
price - rm1,280.400. - rm5,191,600.
5% bumi discount

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Height of design
By CHIN MUI YOON


Judging by the names involved in creating them, the properties that will be built in Kuala Lumpur’s new midtown are going to become the Federal Territory’s most desirable addresses.

EXPECTATIONS are always sky high whenever Kenny Heights is mentioned. After all, the project boasts an assembly of some of the most prestigious international designers and architects who aim to score a few “firsts” in Malaysian design circles.

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Sir Terence Conran will be wielding his renowned expertise in interiors for the first time in Malaysia.

Planned as Kuala Lumpur’s new midtown, Kenny Heights’ name is a combination of two of the city’s prime areas, Kenny Hills and Damansara Heights.

The master plan for the 35ha of land that comprises Kenny Heights centres on a piazza, or public square, and a 9ha green lung. Around the piazza and lung, land will be developed in nine parcels over the next 10 to 15 years; 70% of the properties on these parcels will be commercial and 30%, residential.

First of the developments to debut is Kenny Heights Estate, which will offer 49 four-storey luxury town villas designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, acclaimed for the elegance that is luxury fashion label Louis Vuitton’s Tokyo headquarters.

Kenny Heights Sanctuary, the second parcel to be launched following the Estate, will have almost 2.5ha of its 3.6ha dedicated to six spectacular gardens. They will be designed by John Van Hage, a gold medallist at Britain’s Chelsea Flower Show, the world’s top horticultural event.

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Properties will be clustered in small groups – the high density, mass market look is not for the Kenny Heights Estate.

Award-winning spa group, Six Senses Spa, will open its first Malaysian outlet in the Sanctuary; and we’ll also see the country’s first restaurant by Britain’s grand old master of design and, nowadays, eats, Sir Terence Conran; he’ll be opening a “sky lounge” and restaurant in the Sanctuary.

The centrepiece of this lush oasis will be two luxury condominium towers with interiors designed by award-winning Australian firm Hecker, Phelan & Guthrie, and Conran & Partners – making the towers the first residence in this part of the world to have the Conran touch.

E-mail interviews with some of the designers involved in this project reveal that luxurious living today is all about space, greenery, water and, perhaps surprisingly, simplicity. So Kenny Heights is aimed at urbanites who appreciate casual luxury instead of overcrowded, gilded cages.

The project brings together architecture and natural greenery and water, explains Jennifer Chow, marketing head of the project developer, KH Land, a subsidiary of DutaLand Berhad.

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A canvas for your life is what the Conran Residences offer. Discreet and high quality finishing will support the owner’s taste to create a unique space.

“Kenny Heights Estate, for instance, will have private residences with breathing space, which gives this project a modern, distinctive personality,” she says.

“Having these acclaimed architects and designers on board is great for our master development plan as each of them is incredible in his field of expertise. Their collective contributions will also enable Kenny Heights to offer an international selection of designs, with style influences coming from Australia, Japan and Europe.

Kenny Heights is also exclusively pairing up with Quintessentially, the worldwide, 24-hour lifestyle concierge service company. The private members’ club offers access to the finest in travel services, music, art, food, hotels, clubs, spas, and restaurants.

The estate

All eyes are, naturally, on the maiden project, Kenny Heights Estate. Some 75% of this project has already been sold with price tags starting at RM4.5mil.

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Step from the bedroom into your private pool ... the four-storey villas on the Kenny Heights Estate are designed around the theme of water and nature.

Designed around the theme of water, the project capitalises on Kuma’s forte: combining nature and the outdoors with built architecture. Judging by the artists’ impressions provided, he will be using the interplay of light and shadow with semi-outdoor spaces to create the effect of a seamless transition from interior to exterior spaces.

A unique feature will be a 10m swimming pool on the top level of each unit leading from the master bedroom.

“I was strongly drawn to the unique rise and fall of the land, which makes it more interesting than a flat landscape,” Kuma says in an e-mail. “Each villa is unique, as we’ve designed each one to respond to its site to demonstrate the co-existence of diversity and harmony.”

Some villas will boast vertical landscaping to increase the feeling of living in an oasis. These will be created by French botanist Patrick Blanc, who has been making such gardens in Europe since the 1980s. He uses self-sustaining plants that can grow without soil and places them in custom made frames. These walls are integral in iconic architectural development, such as Jean Nouvel’s Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.

“Vertical gardens allow us to recreate a living system similar to the natural environment,” Blanc explains in an e-mail. “Without soil, the plants are very light. In Malaysia, some 2,500 plant species out of 8,000 grow in the wild without soil.

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Kengo Kuma is known for designs that marry interiors with exteriors and allow nature to inform all living spaces.

“It’s even possible to grow vertical walls indoors, including in underground parking lots, as plant species can be selected according to prevailing climactic and light conditions.”

The sanctuary

The Kenny Heights Sanctuary will be wrapped in lots of greenery in wide, open terraces, forested walkways, and intimate, secret gardens. Chelsea Flower show winner Van Hage explains that there will be lots of private spaces although the huge expanse of land will seamlessly blend the six gardens into a single unit.

“I’ll be creating private pods fashioned from rugged, natural stones enclosed by high walls that make quiet nooks, and there will be small, quiet scented gardens as well,” he says in his e-mail. “The entire landscape will be over-planted so that it is very dense with indigenous plants and trees. There will be a canopy and a seemingly real tropical jungle as well as different levels of planting.”

The residences

Conran, among the world’s best known designers, restaurateurs and retailers, is excited about his first South-East Asian project and expects it to be as iconic to Kuala Lumpur as his famous Roppongi Hills development has been to Tokyo.

“What I think is truly fascinating about the (KL) site is that it knits together not just architecture and comfortable apartments but a whole infrastructure that will work together perfectly,” he tells StarMag in an e-mail interview.

The Conran Residences will draw on the quintessential Conran style that is based on the belief that intelligent design can improve the quality of people’s lives and will exhibit the designer’s signature strong sense of place; and, as with all interior spaces he’s involved in, they will have a finish of high quality materials and thoughtful detailing.

“At the heart of the concept for the Residences is the aim to give the occupier a canvas for his or her life, somewhere to store or display the elements of living, both practical and beautiful – we call this ‘a place for everything’.

“This concept is applied throughout each apartment in different ways, but always considered to suit its function and detailed crisply and functionally.”

All of which will surely add up to a feeling of understated luxury and space. Those high quality finishes will have an understated colour palette. Texture and softness will be added through warm timber, simple curtains in natural fabrics, screens in woven mesh or silks, and furniture upholstered in textured fabrics or leather, says the designer.

“I have always been optimistic about the role design can play in improving the quality of people’s lives, and that is as relevant to luxury developments as it is to any other project.

“Today, more than ever before, good intelligent design and green design are one and the same.”

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW OF KENNY HEIGHTS SANCTUARY AND DIALOGUE WITH MASTER JOEY YAP ON KENNY HEIGHTS FENG SHUI AND PROPERTY OUTLOOK 2010 AT THE ‘STAR PROPERTY FAIR VIP LOUNGE BY KENNY HEIGHTS’.Wednesday 25/11/2009

Kuala Lumpur, 25 November - Members Of The Public Are Invited To The Star Property Fair, Which Will Be Held From 27th To 29th November 2009 Between 11.00 Am To 7.00 Pm At Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. This First Star Property Fair In Kuala Lumpur, Which Is Organized By The Star Media Group, Will Be Officiated By YB Dato’ Seri Kong Cho Ha, Minister Of Housing & Local Government.

Kenny Heights Sanctuary, the first of its kind condo-development with 6 acres for gardens parkland and public spaces is now open for registration for its first tower, which features interior by Hecker Phelan & Guthrie. Approximately two third of the development is dedicated to six designer gardens by John Van Hage of Landscape London, a private spa by Six Senses, and clubhouse amenities that include indoor tennis courts, a Conran sky lounge and restaurant by Sir Terence Conran.

Members of the public can have an exclusive preview of Kenny Heights Sanctuary by registering at the Quintessentially Concierge of the ‘Star Property Fair’s VIP Lounge by Kenny Heights’. For Feng Shui enthusiast, Master Joey Yap will make a special appearance on Fri, 27th Nov at 1.00 pm and Sun, 28th Nov at 12.00 noon at the VIP Lounge for a dialogue on Kenny Heights’ Feng Shui and next year’s property outlook – limited to the first 30 visitors only.

For enquiries on Kenny Heights Sanctuary, please call 03-62018333 and Kenny Heights Estate (limited units of four-storey town villas with a private pool and lift), please call 03-21637333 or visit www.kennyheights.com.my

http://www.starproperty.my/LuxuryLiving/KHS_Overview.html

...dont 4get...2moro..Kenny heights sanctuary at the star property fair KLCC....

click http://www.kualalumpur-properties.com/kenny-heights-sanctuary.html for kenny heights sanctuary....
nazrey tolong post
hmmm....another avenue k & the avare???

dis project is so mysterious
so hard 4 me to take dis pic....
taken from the star property fair yesterday..
another setia sky residence & tropicana grande
currently open 2 blocks but 1st block almost sold out...like pisang goreng panas...
they will launched the norman foster project probably in 2011...

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Kenny Heights Sanctuary
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based on their masterplan...dis project totally huge...so many proposal in dis area.....got huge shopping mall, few blocks condo, office towers & hotels

Kenny Heights Estate -Duta Villa

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^^nice project

Notice the two features missing in actual as-built now? white louver screen on the exterior facade and the vertical wall garden.

Rendering:
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itu condo belum start lagila..aiyo so slow

Will Olympia consider another proposal?
Wednesday September 1, 2010
By FINTAN NG
fintan@thestar.com.my


Company’s latest financial results show it can do with the extra funding

WHAT next for Olympia Industries Bhd, whose proposed sale of Menara Olympia and a neighbouring car park to Jelita Timur Sdn Bhd has been aborted?

Would the company still sell to another buyer at the higher price? After all, it was due to the lower valuation compared with downtown Kuala Lumpur’s other office buildings that prompted Bursa Securities to ask for a second valuation.

But following the second valuation by Rahim & Co, which valued the property at RM228.1mil, Jelita Timur had, in a letter last Thursday, informed the board of Olympia of its decision to withdraw from the transaction.

A previous valuation in January by Collier, Jordan Lee & Jaffar Sdn Bhd valued the property at RM202.65mil. This figure was the same as an earlier valuation done in 2008.

Part of the objection to the deal stemmed from the fact that under the sale and purchase agreement drawn up with Jelita Timur, Olympia would end up with just over RM11mil in cash as part of the sale price involved Jelita Timur taking up RM172.5mil in debt that has been charged under Menara Olympia.


No decision yet

On Monday, Olympia’s senior corporate communication manager Jennifer Chow said in an email reply to a StarBiz query that the company has yet to make any decision following the announcement on the aborted sale.

Price was one of the main reasons given by Jelita Timur for aborting the transaction. In the letter, Jelita Timur said “it was not prepared under any circumstances to proceed with the transaction at a higher consideration if there was a revision of the valuation of the properties.”

Some claim that the proposed sale was due to Olympia badly needing an infusion of capital to kickstart the 88-acre freehold Kenny Heights project, located in Sri Hartamas and which was being jointly developed with sister company DutaLand Bhd.

The project, divided into nine parcels for mixed development over 15 years, has seen the launch of Kenny Heights Estate comprising 49 four-storey town villas on 3.7 acres with a gross development value of RM200mil due for completion early next year.

Late last year the first 38-storey block of Kenny Heights Sanctuary, a four-block condominium phase on nine acres, was launched.

Observers point to Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd’s decision to let a joint venture agreement signed with DutaLand and Olympia for the development of 16.2 acres to lapse and the mutual agreement to terminate another joint venture as being push-factors for the proposed sale.

Another reason to push for the sale could be that Olympia would face lower contribution from the gaming division due to the Government’s imposition of a higher pool betting duty at 8% from 6% previously.

This was seen as a negative by analysts as Olympia’s Lotteries Corp Sdn Bhd, which operates in Sabah, contributed nearly half of the total revenue to the company for the financial year ended June 30, 2009.

Olympia said in a filing with Bursa Malaysia in July that the increase would have an adverse financial impact on the operating performance of the company for the financial year ending June 30, 2011.

However, Chow refuted those claims. She said the proposed disposal was part of the company’s obligations to meet scheduled payments under the debt restructuring scheme completed in 2007. Under the scheme, Menara Olympia was pledged to the now defunct Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd, to which the debt is owed.

Chow said the debt restructuring scheme included the disposal of non-core assets, to improve cash flow and raise funds to reduce borrowings in order for the company to concentrate on core business activities of gaming, financial services and business investment.

“This is purely an Olympia corporate exercise and has nothing to do with DutaLand. Kenny Heights is a DutaLand-led project with Olympia as a passive investor,” she said. Olympia has a 42% stake in the development with the remainder held by DutaLand.


Persistent views

But the views have persisted as both companies are helmed by Tan Sri Yap Yong Seong, popularly known as Duta Yap. Both companies are controlled by him via private vehicle Kenny Heights Development Sdn Bhd, which injected the 88 acres into Olympia and DutaLand following their restructuring.

Yap has seen his fair share of scrapes before, with the recessions of the mid-80s and the 1997 Asian financial crisis among them.

The recent global economic slowdown has also affected Olympia where the property division saw lower contribution in part due to the completion of the K-Residence condominium project in downtown Kuala Lumpur. The travel/leisure division has also seen lower contributions and so has the financial services division, which is led by brokerage Jupiter Securities Sdn Bhd.

However, it is yet to be known how Yap would play his cards as Olympia’s latest financial results showed that the company could do with the extra funding.

Paradoxically and despite Olympia refuting claims that the proposed sale of Menara Olympia was not to fund its “passive investment” in Kenny Heights, as observers have pointed out, the key to the survival of the company and of DutaLand, would be that the multi-billion ringgit project takes off and does well.

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Wonder whats with the delay. Low sales?

Machines on site:)They waited for the istana to be ready:lol:So now they have a new selling pitch:nuts:

You mean Sanctuary?

Saw the site from the highway on the way to jln duta toll so i am not sure.

Confirmed! Land clearing! Lots of machinery on site

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from:
http://www.patchay.com/p/kuala-lumpur-urban-developments.html

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Confirmed! Land clearing! Lots of machinery on site

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Enjoy the view while it last:ohno:

Ridiculous! I can't believe that they are going to build another four 38 story high-rises in that little patch of land, and right next to the Sprint highway (Sanctuary). This is insane, especially considering how many half emply condo are there in MK already, with MK-11, MK-10 and Seni having hard time marketing themselves to buyers.

I've checked out Kenny Heights Estates, it is nicely designed, but that whole complex sits right above the sprint highway. It is just fxxxing loud! and at the playground you can't hear anything! I can't imaging paying what its worth for the chance to live next to a busy/loud highway, overlooking... another set of high rises.

Duta Land would better build high end homes/semiDs - landed properties on this patch of land (where they are planning to build Sanctuary). There is high demand in MK for landed properties, not condos.

But alas, greed is stronger that common sense. Let's see what happens.

For now their selling pitch would be the new istana negara view!

Ridiculous! I can't believe that they are going to build another four 38 story high-rises in that little patch of land, and right next to the Sprint highway (Sanctuary). This is insane, especially considering how many half emply condo are there in MK already, with MK-11, MK-10 and Seni having hard time marketing themselves to buyers.

I've checked out Kenny Heights Estates, it is nicely designed, but that whole complex sits right above the sprint highway. It is just fxxxing loud! and at the playground you can't hear anything! I can't imaging paying what its worth for the chance to live next to a busy/loud highway, overlooking... another set of high rises.

Duta Land would better build high end homes/semiDs - landed properties on this patch of land (where they are planning to build Sanctuary). There is high demand in MK for landed properties, not condos.

But alas, greed is stronger that common sense. Let's see what happens.

i tot MK10 & MK11 already sold out....and now with MK28(almost completed) and MK23(Plaza Foster)...if MK10 & 11 didnt do well surely they will put MK28 & 23 on hold....im sure Sunrise not dat stupid....

i tot MK10 & MK11 already sold out....and now with MK28(almost completed) and MK23(Plaza Foster)...if MK10 & 11 didnt do well surely they will put MK28 & 23 on hold....im sure Sunrise not dat stupid....

^^ whether they sell or dont, continue rolling out new launches r very common for big developers to sustain business. they dont wait till the rush..

i tot MK10 & MK11 already sold out....and now with MK28(almost completed) and MK23(Plaza Foster)...if MK10 & 11 didnt do well surely they will put MK28 & 23 on hold....im sure Sunrise not dat stupid....

most of MK-10 and MK-11 units are selling as investment properties. the local wealthy are bidding that expats will continue to flock into MK at the same rates new condos are popping up. MK-10 is half empty and I know several owners who are looking to get out (sell their units) because of the planned Dutaland development - I can understand why - now they look into balconies of MK-11 out of their windows, this year they will have to live thru noise/dust of construction 15 meters away, and next year, they will be looking into balconies of Dutaland's 4 towers. It;s about quality of life. is it worth it to pay 2-3 million for a unit with no views, packed into boxed development with one road servicing it. The development in MK is unsustainable. There is already oversupply of condos in MK, and they are building more. I've always thought of KL as a green city, but MK is just becoming a typical concrete jungle.

[QUOTE=mintimer; The development in MK is unsustainable. There is already oversupply of condos in MK, and they are building more. I've always thought of KL as a green city, but MK is just becoming a typical concrete jungle.[/QUOTE]

:ohno:What about this does the developers simply dont understand?Why the hell do i want to buy something so damm expansive unit only to have a view of the building next?MK from a distance looks like a glorified clusters of overhyped DBKL flats and traffic is getting out of control at peak hours .kasi free pun saya tak maulah:lol:

Mont Kiara will see more condos soon as per drawing board.

And developers are rushing in to build SoHO in MK.

^^ whether they sell or dont, continue rolling out new launches r very common for big developers to sustain business. they dont wait till the rush..

yeah maybe like Monoland, Naza, Mayland, Mahsing & SP Setia but not all big developers willing to take the risk like Berjaya with The Ritz & TA group with their BB & KLCC projects

I;d be interest to see what the average occupancy rates in Mont Kiara are for condos, I know bungalos/semiDs are mostly full, but condos appear to be only 50% occupied. I wouldn't want to be that buyer who buys, invests in renovation and can't rent it to get the inputs back. I know two owners in MK-10 currently trying to sell their units and get out. LOOOTs of Condos in Mont Kiara, oversupply will mean more bargaining power for renters (expats) and lower rental rates, slimmer margins for owners, and more escapes from the condo market into landed properties for investors.

I also wonder what SunRise is thinking about Dutaland's plans. Pretty much their premium properties of MK-10 and MK-11 will be blocked out by the Sanctuary, so no more nice views of the Palace or the KLCC area. I bet sunrise is biting its nails )))

Noticed some site clearing going on behind Kenny Heights Estate as well. For another development?

Is there a tunnel linking the 2 sites under the sprint highway?

With the Kengo Kuma's estate completed. And Hecker,Guthrie & Conran's sanctuary launched in 2011.

Heard that the Conran Residence is going to be launched very very soon. (Right Opposite Istana - Land cleared)

And also, Adjaye's Tower 1. (Next to Kengo's estate)


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Conran Residence & Regent Avenue K.

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Adjaye Tower 1

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c'mon this development can compete with NAZA's KL Metropolis.

BRING IT ON!!!



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Kenny Heights International Zone Future Precinct

2 kl city centre..love it

2 kl city centre..love it
Matrade + MK + kenny height!!
that's awesome!!

The new palace taken so many land, it is enough to build another city. So this project also got 100 storey tower to compete with Naza?

no 100-storey in Kenny Heights.. where did you hear that from?
but probably a supertall will be built here in the future (80-storey only).. still it's very blurry

the tallest will be a single block 80storey & 2 or 3 60storey by norman foster.....

owh..speechless...kl getting better

how much is the cheapest condominium in mont kiara?

owh..speechless...kl getting better

How? By building more buildings? Even the basic amenities such as roads are still in bad shape.

All the highly rank liveable cities in the world do not have such high density of a population.

How? By building more buildings? Even the basic amenities such as roads are still in bad shape.

All the highly rank liveable cities in the world do not have such high density of a population.

dont you get what i mean?KL IS GETTING BETTER...NOT KL IS THE BEST..getting(KEARAH) better mean they have some improvement in infrastructure..at least a little bit,it still better,i dont say build 100floor tower mean kl is the best...so naive of you..

people gets home(kenny height) and live comfortably also make kl better..

:bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:dont you get what i mean?KL IS GETTING BETTER...NOT KL IS THE BEST..getting(KEARAH) better mean they have some improvement in infrastructure..at least a little bit,it still better,i dont say build 100floor tower mean kl is the best...so naive of you..

people gets home(kenny height) and live comfortably also make kl better..

:bow: salute

Spoken to Dutaland... this time the guys seem serious to start this project!

Any nice info before i go to sleep? :D

Spoken to Dutaland... this time the guys seem serious to start this project!

and i heard the investors want their money back lol....

Spoken to Dutaland... this time the guys seem serious to start this project!

Passing by their site just now....They have almost cleared up all the land there...

Think they will start very very soon... :banana:

Massive earthworks going on,leveling the hill and dumping it on the other side of the highway.I am convinced now that there is a tunnel linking the two site under the highway.

Massive earthworks going on,leveling the hill and dumping it on the other side of the highway.I am convinced now that there is a tunnel linking the two site under the highway.

Guess what? That is the access road for the future residents.

I wonder how much the original owners were compensated to have the highway go thru their land?

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:) They have started to plant trees along Jalan Hartamas to beautify the area.....outside the Dutuland and Istana Negara..^^

Kenny Height Bangalow

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Kenny Height Sanctuary. Hoped they build this..

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new design....hmmm duno whether shud like it or hate it....weird n scary lol

:nuts: so many circles...

dun think they will build it..most like remove all the circles..

Later kalo gempa bumi all those circles yg jatuh dulu :lol:

Yikes "Kusta towers":lol:

ee,geli geleman..xcantik pon..

tht is wicked balcony

Land digging is getting deeper and deeper..