Le Nouvel KLCC comprises two slender towers that rise above Kuala Lumpur’s main business district (KLCC). To create the vertical gardens, a grid of stainless-steel cables was applied across the buildings’ glass facades and threaded with high and low-climbing liana vines.
Participants
ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL
PARIS, FRANCE
Jean Nouvel, Fumel, France, 1945. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Technical Collaborators
Arkitek MAA (Local Architects)
Team
Emmanuel Blamont (Advisor); Mathieu Forest, Jean-François Winninger, and Michel Calzada (Project Leaders); Sophie Andregnette, Valentin Bernard, Morgane Briand, Chen Chen, Claude Godefroy, Ute Rinnebach, Joachim Seyer, and Anne Traband (Architects); Atelier Hiroshi Maeda, Marie Maillard, Vatsana Takham (Graphic Design); Irène Djao-Rakitine, Marie Fouriscot (Landscape); Julien Cottier (Visualisations); Jean-Marc Kurcewski, Patrick Barbier (Models); Patrick Barbier, Camille Gaven (Interns); Patrick Blanc (Vertical Garden)
