Citibank Tower

The tower in 2019, before mankind truly vanished

The Citibank Tower is a 50-storey (190 meter) Class A commercial tower located close to the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and houses the headquarters of Citibank Malaysia. The building was developed by The Lion Group and completed in 1995, and was originally named Menara Lion or Lion Tower until Citibank acquired a 50% stake and moved into the building in 2000. Although it is only the 49th tallest structure in the city, it still offers a panoramic view of the Kuala Lumpur skyline. Aside from offices, the tower also holds a massive food court, several other restaurants, and a car park that can hold up to 1500 cars at one time. It holds the needs of all office workers that work in the building, but without any of them left or anybody else to maintain it, can the facilities the building has help it to survive the impending doom?

1 day after people: Instead of the noises of ringing phones and office workers talking to clients, the only sound the Citibank Tower hears is absolute silence. The parked cars stand patiently for their non-existent owners to come back to the car park. Elsewhere in the food court, the delicious aromas of the prepared dishes for hungry customers are also left unattended, the seed for an upcoming massive migration into the food court. As the night progresses, the power grid fails, and the tower is left in complete darkness, and so is the rest of the city and the entire country.

2 days after people: While a massive thunderstorm batters the city and knocks out the solar panels of the nearby Maxis Tower, the Citibank Tower is suddenly welcoming a new refugee. Rodents and ants intending to seek shelter from the storm take cover in the building, and are attracted to the smell of food coming from the nearby food court. A frenzy ensues in the food court as plates are knocked over while rats and ants consume a lot of the leftovers. Meanwhile, on the upper floors, the offices still sit silent and in complete darkness, waiting for their turn to be colonized by animals.

2 weeks after people: More rodents flood into the Citibank Tower, consuming every last morsel of food left in the food court. As the food court no longer has any food left, the rodents then climb up the staircases and slowly invade the upper floors of the building.

5 months after people: A massive river surge from the nearby Klang River during a massive downpour sweeps into the building, inundating and flooding the parking lot. Cars are swept into the walls of the parking lot, before being submerged with no means to be able to call for help. The tower also is struck by a bolt of lightning on a middle floor, setting it alight. However, it is quickly quenched when the winds cause rainwater to seep into the ablaze floor. The battering winds also cause a few window panels all around the tower to come crashing down into the surge below.

6 months after people: As the floodwaters recede, birds have also found the building suitable as a breeding site, and they fly into the Citibank Tower in droves and build nests around the tower. This migration of birds is the beginning of the end for the tower as birds bring in seeds as well, which grow quickly due to the tropical conditions of Malaysia.

10 years after people: The tower's exterior is now beginning to suffer from the effects of corrosion. Rainwater corrodes the metal panels of the building's exterior, giving a sort of brownish appearance from afar. Meanwhile, more windows are beginning to fall out of the tower, shattering in the empty streets below. Inside the tower, the seeds brought in by birds have grown to be massive trees, adding weight to the weakening support columns. The interiors of the Citibank Tower are being destroyed by the horrendous weather as rain, wind, and sunlight work to deteriorate the office space.

25 years after people: As more and more plants and trees grow inside of the Citibank Tower's floors (particularly the upper floors of the building), the floors are now covered in a carpet of dirt, poop from animals, and destroyed office equipment. However, what proves to be more destructive are the big trees growing inside. As they grow bigger and taller, they soon reach the height of the ceiling, eventually breaking through it and continuing to grow bigger. Trees like these also get heavier and heavier for the already severely weakened supports. On the roof, the corroded air vents still stand next to the now plant-covered helipad, which is now unavailable to serve any of the deteriorating helicopters elsewhere in the city. One of the helipad support columns fail, leading to the helipad tipping over sideways, and a massive tree that was growing on top of the helipad breaks through the roof onto the next floor. However, most of the impact was absorbed by the roof, so the floor beneath the roof is still able to hold on, for now.

75 years after people: The supports keeping the Citibank logo on top of the building from falling are at their limit. A key support beam then breaks, and the "C" of Citibank falls down into the jungle below. Eventually, all the words will meet the same fate as that letter did. The corroded metal panels of the building also begin to fall off, creating a massive bang on impact that scares away nearby birds and rodents. Despite this, a major presence of birds and rodents is still visible in the building.

110 years after people: The nearby Intercontinental Hotel collapses after a middle floor support column breaks apart, sending debris and rubble onto the lower floors of the building and destroying a lot of the remaining windows of the Citibank Tower. This collapse also springs new growth for plants that were previously restricted to the boundaries of the windows that were once there, increasing the weight of the floors that the support columns were forced to handle.

150 years after people: Although most of the tower is barely holding on, one part of the tower has decided that enough is enough. The abandoned air vent on the tower's weakened roof proves to be the final straw. The support fail and the vent comes crashing down onto a spot where a support column was holding up the floor beneath the roof. It fails as well and the entire top floor of the Citibank Tower as well as the roof starts to fall downwards in a slow pancake collapse, as the floors would crash onto another until there was none left. When it was all over, there was nothing left but heaps of debris and rubble, as well as the corpses of birds, rats, and ants. The collapse of the Citibank Tower took 2 minutes, but for Kuala Lumpur, this was yet another sign that this was the end of their dominance over Malaysia as the buildings Malaysians worked so hard to construct come crashing down one by one.