AmBank Tower

The building in the time of humans

**AmBank Tower** is a skyscraper located within the vicinity of Downtown Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The tower was officially launched by the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad in 2003 and is the headquarters of AmBank Group. But how long can the skyscraper last with the absence of humans?

**1 day after people:** No power is left for the building to stay lit up at night because of the power grid malfunctioning, and the tower turns dark. The bountiful colors of the tower are now just black and gray in the Malaysian night.

**5 months after people:** A heavy downpour striking Kuala Lumpur causes a flooding inside the base of the AmBank Tower. During this downpour, a few seeds are thrown inside, which will soon grow once the downpour is over, and will be the first of many plants to take over the tower.

**2 years after people:** Vines and tropical plants begin to grow on the building's base. It will slowly go up the upper floors year by year. A few windows have broke from the wind and rainstorms, letting moisture in and deteriorating the interior of the building. The paint inside is wearing away, as well as the paint on the outside, eradicating the beautiful colors of blue and white.

**5 years after people:** Birds begin to use the building as a nest, slightly damaging parts of the building as birds drop their poop all over the building, which will corrode the roof and metal of the building, combined with the moisture in the air. That is already deteriorating the AmBank logo on the roof as well, the words starting to become unintelligible.

**10 years after people:** Windows begin to blow out of the building. More moisture enters, along with more seeds, bringing a plant invasion of the building, while many other animals continue to make the building their home. Although that won't have an effect now, the waste of the animals will make a good fertilizer for more plants, which will continue the cycle for years to come.

**50 years after people:** The supports of AmBank logo at the top fail, causing the sign to topple 200 meters down onto the streets below. The antenna on top is partly snapped off during a rainstorm, when a lightning bolt strikes the antenna.

**100 years after people:** All the windows have blown out, turning some parts of the building into a metal skeleton. The once pristine colors of blue and white that have beautified the AmBank Tower are now reduced to bare pieces of gray and dark brown, from the slow corrosion of the metal from moisture. A few pieces of the tower fall off, unable to hold on from the rust.

**150 years after people:** The antenna collapses onto the roof, taking out the top 5 floors with it. But the structure still stands. It will continue standing for a long time, despite the growing corrosion and the floodwaters slowly wearing away at the base of the building.

**300 years after people:** The AmBank has faired better than most of it's skyscraper rivals in Downtown Kuala Lumpur. Even the mighty Exchange 106 and the KL Tower have fallen long long time ago. But the supports have finally give up and they give way, causing the structure to twist a bit to the side and collapse. It may have lasted long, but not as long as the Petronas Towers, which now overlook the vast jungle in the former area of Kuala Lumpur.

Initial state of the tower.The tower collapses.