Cultural shopping center: A cultural shopping center for Kuala Lampur, Malaysia

To built the fiiture environment, we can never forget the past, that is what makes \nlife so interesting, developing and meaningfial. Appreciating the heritage and value of \nculture by making it as a source of inspiration, which to be absorbed in contemporary \nenvironment is what the project all about. \nThe thesis of the project is Critical Regionalism Architecture. It is about to \nmaintain the identity of Malaysian architecture, which consist of multi-racial environment, \nthat is borrowed from the cuhural tradition - including arts and crafts, music, lifestyle, \narchitecture, technology and etc. as the major characteristic of the design. It is meant to \neducate fixture generation, a warning for not to ignore the cultural heritage and an idea for \nftiture architectural development. Most of all the project is about creating sensitivity \nbetween man, his culture and his environment. Awareness towards the uniqueness of our \nown culture or the culture we shared can be proudly celebrated in a sensitive vehicle \nwhich is Cultural Shopping Center. \nThis Culture Shopping Center is a place where varietv kind of culture will be sell \nand exhibit, like multi-racial group living in one country In the past and still is , the \nintention of exposing and celebrating cultural heritage was accommodate in the museums \nand galleries; however, the message is not successftilly delivered Therefore, by \ncelebrating and selling culture in a place called shopping center hopefully will \nattract visitors from local and also foreign countries. The cultural heritage of \nMalaysian people can bring joy to the future local generation; moreover, a \nmeaningful knowledge and unforgetful memory to foreign visitors for them to sell to \nthe world.