Kuala Lumpur

An aerial view of the city in the time of humans.

**Kuala Lumpur** is the capital and largest city of Malaysia and is one of Asia’s fastest-growing cities. It is home to over 7 million people and the skyline is watched over by the Petronas Towers. The name itself means "muddy confluence" and was first developed in 1857, first serving as a tin mine. It has a comprehensive road system and is one of the leading cities in tourism. It is also home to the colossal towers, such as The Exchange 106, Four Seasons Place KL, and Merdeka 118, which is currently under construction. Kuala Lumpur stands as the advancement of Malaysia, but how long can the nation's largest city survive without people to keep the city under check?

**1 day after people:** With no one left to operate the local power plants, the city plunges into darkness forever. The lights in Downtown KL and the Exchange 106's LED display power down forever. Nearby, KLIA is also affected and the airport loses all electricity permanently. Automated train and subway lines stop moving and lay still forever until the supports beneath them collapse.

**2 days after people:** The Maxis Tower's massive LED clock powers off because a lightning strike from a storm damages the tower's solar panels, thus leaving no more power for the clock to keep running.

**3 days after people:** The pumps pumping out water from the underground sections of Kuala Lumpur's MRT and LRT lines stop, allowing water to seep in and flooding the underground stations.

**2 weeks after people:** Food begins to rot all over the city and attracts pigeons and mice into markets.

**1 month after people:** The pitch at Bukit Jalil National Stadium starts to be enveloped by unchecked growth of grass.

**2 months after people:** The clock on the Sultan Abdul Sahmad Building stops rotating and is frozen forever.

**5 months after people:** A massive downpour strikes the city for several days. The Klang River and the Gombak River flood its banks and cause widespread flooding across Kuala Lumpur. Normally the SMART Tunnel would help divert floodwaters away from the city and into the tunnel, but with nobody at the controls and the power switched off long ago, there is nothing to hold the floodwaters back. The widespread flooding leads to many structures being temporarily damaged, some of them even sustaining permanent damage.

Further south, Mid Valley Megamall, The Gardens Mall and KL Eco City are situated close to the river and take a massive toll on the flooding. The downpour sweeps cars away and floods the basement of the Gardens Mall, weakening supports. Meanwhile the adjacent KL Eco City suffers less structural damage, but the base is flooded for at least 3 days before it dries up.

**6 months after people:** The floodwaters have receded and the birds move back in.

**1 year after people:** Nature slowly takes over the Padang and KLCC Park. The now still trains of the Rapid KL Network are beginning to deteriorate and are becoming targets of a new home for birds to build their nests.

**2 years after people:** Several thunderstorms causes the cranes at the Tun Razak Exchange to fall down and smash into The Exchange 106.

**5 years after people:** Petaling Street's southern arch is brought down to rubble thanks to a massive TV display located directly above the arch. Meanwhile the planes at KLIA are beginning to deteriorate slowly and the runway is being covered in a layer of grass.

**10 years after people:** A severe downpour alongside with a thunderstorm causes many major areas of the city to be submerged by floodwaters. The floodwaters finally cause the Kota Darul Ehsan Arch to crumbleinto the Federal Highway below. The antenna on the KL Tower snaps off due to lightning. Roads all across the metropolis start to be enveloped by plants and moss, resembling and turning them into streams of grassy fields.

**15 years after people:** Windows panels in many buildings began to topple down onto the streets. As they shatter, the thousands of pieces are scattered across roads and walkways. Windy days cause these tiny glass shards to be swept around, killing some birds that are unfortunate enough to be in their direction.

**20 years after people:** The Maybank logo on the Maybank Tower falls off due to corrosion on the supports. Many roads and expressways now are filled with an abundance of moss and plants. As that happens, the interchanges supports on roads and bridges begins to weaken across the city and are beginning to give way, bringing down entire highway sections with it.

**25 years after people:** KLCC Park has turned into a tiny jungle in the middle of the city. The jogging paths are no longer visible and the artificial colorings and the fountain is now covered by greenery. Meanwhile, some elevated railway sections of the Sungai Buloh-Kajang MRT line are beginning to fail due to the humidity of the city. The supports fail and they collapse, bringing down some of the trains that laid still on top. Nearly all of the rooftop sections at Petaling Street have collapsed, with only the roof section where southern arch once stood left intact and standing.

**30 years after people:** Due to extensive corrosion, the metal spire on the JKG Tower crumbles onto the tower, destroying the whole building in the process in a pancake collapse. The tower leans and smashes into the neighboring Liberty Tower, destroying both towers in less than a minute.

**35 years after people:** Due to the absence of windows on the unfinished top floors of KL118, the corroded supports on the top floors fail and collapse. Despite this, the building is still standing, for now. Petaling Street also becomes unrecognizable as the green dragon rooftop above the remains of the southern arch gives way, bringing it down in dust and rubble.

**40 years after people:** The word engraving "UMNO" on the Dato Onn Tower has completely disappeared due to extreme corrosion brought on by the tropical heat and torrential rainfall, eventually causing the letters to fall off, one by one into the ground below, shattering into tiny pieces.

**50 years after people:** Muzium Negara collapses after a lightning strike hits the building, setting a tree on fire and destroying it altogether. The Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur also gives up when the supports fail, at the same time with an inferno caused by a lightning strike, and the hotel collapses. The supports carrying the massive weight of the overhead stations of the Sri Petaling Line are beginning to fail. The first station to give up the fight is the Masjid Jamek Station, which succumbs first due to the proximity to the Klang River. One by one, the overhead stations will collapse over the next few decades. Meanwhile, the dome of the Stadium Negara collapses into the stadium's arena bowl, destroying everything in its path. But the stadium is able to withstand the collapse.

**55 years after people:** Due to excessive nature growing in the interior and exterior, the Bukit Jalil National Stadium finally collapses. The KLIA Control Tower also collapses as the weakened columns at the base give up the fight.

**60 years after people:** The word engraving "Pavilion" at Pavilion Suites are losing the fight against gravity. Word by word, they come crashing down onto the Pavilion Mall. Meanwhile, a nearby tree branch snaps off during a massive storm, breaking through the roof of the Kuala Lumpur City Gallery and destroying the miniature model of Kuala Lumpur. Not far from the gallery lies the remains of Stadium Merdeka, which by now has been reduced to a section protected by a shell roof. But that protection turns into its demise as it collapses onto the remains of the stadium, destroying it for good.

Meanwhile further south, the Vogue Suites One Tower in KL Eco City is still standing, although the building has been changed into a gray concrete shell. Eventually, the roof of the top floor gives way and smashes into the building, causing a chain reaction throughout the entire tower and causing it to lean and collapse onto another tall building in the complex, creating a sort of domino-effect as building after building in KL Eco City collapses and smashes into another building. When it is all over, only half of KL Eco City is still intact.

**65 years after people:** Many condominium buildings across Kuala Lumpur start to collapse due to lack of maintenance for long periods of time. Since most condominium structure's were constructed in the 80s and beginning to show signs of deterioration before humans disappeared, their poor structural integrity can not hold up the immense weight, which makes them collapse. Buildings mainly made out of wood start to collapse too because the wood starts rotting away, causing structural instability.

**70 years after people:** Extensive tropical heat has caused the Maxis Tower to collapse on to the base of Four Seasons Place, damaging the building.

**75 years after people:** The skybridge under the Petronas Towers collapse due to the corrosion that weakens the supports under it.

**80 years after people:** The Four Seasons Place and the Carigali Tower collapse due to decades of having to withstand torrential rain and the tropical humidity of Malaysia, which had severely weakened supports on the already heavy floors above it. Meanwhile, the main tower of the Malaysian Houses of Parliament can no longer hold out, and it collapses onto the Dewan Rakyat Chamber, destroying the iconic look of the complex.

**85 years after people:** The Dayabumi Complex collapses after extensive humidity from the tropical heat cause supports on the 5th floor to succumb, causing the tower to lean and cave in onto the General Post Office.

**90 years after people:** The Kerja Raya Tower collapses after the supports, under immense strain, fail and collapse, bringing the entire structure down with it. Meanwhile due to failing gas pipes, the base of Vista Tower is rocked by a violent explosion, causing the entire tower to lean and collapse into Integra Tower.

**100 years after people:** Extensive corrosion has caused the dome of the National Mosque of Malaysia to crumble down, bringing the whole structure down with it. The dome of the National Science Center also collapses, but the rest of the structure still stands. KLIA has now been covered in a layer of grass, trees and vines, which proves too much for the roof of Terminal 1. The roof caves in and destroys Terminal 1. Terminal 2 still stands but it's survival won't last long. Back in Downtown Kuala Lumpur, another massive flood strikes the area, flooding and dealing the final blow to the Public Bank Tower.The main pillars of the lobby give way, and the structure caves in on itself, and vanishes from the skyline of Kuala Lumpur in a pile of smoke and debris. KL118's spire is sent crashing down 2 of the building's upper floors before being sent toppling down into the jungle below.

**105 years after people:** Extensive heat has caused one of the towers at Berjaya Times Square to collapse into the other, bringing down the whole shopping complex in a matter of seconds. Meanwhile the remaining buildings of KL Eco City collapse one by one due to weakened supports from corrosion and flooding.

**110 years after people:** The supports holding the Maybank Tower fails and the structure collapses in a pancake effect. In Mid Valley City, the Southpoint Tower is reaching impending doom. Several floors of the building has been converted into a new home for birds and the extreme humidity of Kuala Lumpur are corroding several support columns. Eventually some supports of the outer skeleton give way and collapse, causing the top of the building to come crashing down onto the bottom floors. This is the first of many collapses that will happen in Mid Valley City.

**115 years after people:** More than a century of tropical humidity and corrosion has weakened several main pillars holding up Terminal 2 in KLIA. Eventually, they break and the Terminal collapses on itself, destroying everything. What remains of KLIA are the rusted skeletons of planes that used to soar in the skies. The unfinished KL118 finally collapses onto Stadium Negara, destroying it in the process.

**125 years after people:** In Mid Valley City, the Cititel Hotel is the next to fall due to weakened supports from the unbearable Malaysian climate. A section breaks off the tower and the rest comes crashing down, destroying the East Atrium of Mid Valley Megamall. However, the mall still stands.

**130 years after people:** In Mid Valley City, The Garden's North Tower is still standing, but the car park supports beneath it is about to give way. Eventually the stress becomes too unbearable and several columns crack and collapse, causing the entire tower to lean and fall onto the nearby St Giles Signature Hotel & Residences, which brings down half of the Gardens Mall with it as well.

**140 years after people:** Adjacent to Jalan Tun Razak, a major support columns breaks off from the Tabung Haji Tower after 14 decades of weathering, creating an uneven balance between the others and eventually causes a cascading collapse of the building.

**150 years after people:** The glass crown on top of The Exchange 106 are now pieces of metal frames holding it together, the strong winds soon causes it to collapse. Whatever is left of the National Science Center collapses. Meanwhile in KL Sentral, the entire building has turned into a greenhouse. Animals scour the area for food and plantlife has invaded the building's floor and walls. Some parts of the train station had already fallen, but it stays intact nonetheless. However, the nearby Hilton Hotel is about to be the death of KL Sentral. A floor pancakes onto another, and the entire hotel begins to topple and come crashing down onto KL Sentral, destroying the remains of decayed trains and ticket counters. Floodwater currents in the historical part of the city finally prove too much for the Kuala Lumpur City Gallery, and it collapses into the gloomy floodwaters below in a massive splash, never to be seen again. In the Central Business District, an air vent proves to be too much for the Citibank Tower's roof, and it comes crashing through the roof and knocking out a key support column, bringing the top of the building down on itself.

**160 years after people:** The Telekom Tower is the only building left in Bangsar South. Due to the tropical heat and extensive rainfall, the top crumbles onto the helipad and into the tower, destroying most of the building. Only 20 floors of the Telekom Tower remain, making it hardly recognisable. The Boulevard Offices in Mid Valley City are the next to fall. One of the towers come crashing down and smashing into the other, which destroys the West Atrium of Mid Valley Megamall and both towers in less than 30 seconds.

**175 years after people:** The KL Tower finally collapses after the supports at the base give way and crumble. Adjacent to KLCC Park, the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur is about to succumb to Mother Nature. Greenery has infiltrated the many rooms the hotel once had to let visitors rest in, which adds to the unbearable weight of the structure. The supports on the 20th floor give way, creating a pancake effect within the tower and knocking out crucial parts of the steel skeleton, which brings the entire hotel down into what was once KLCC Park. Meanwhile near Bukit Bintang, the Equatorial Plaza's swimming pool is proving too heavy for the supports beneath it to support, and they cave in. The pool water comes crashing down and creates a collapse of a section of the building, eventually hitting the main building's supports, bringing the entire structure down on itself.

**190 years after people:** The Garden's South Tower is about to lose its fight for survival. The entire building has been turned into a metal skeleton and corrosion is about to take the final blow. The entire building topples over and collapses into the Klang River. Only the Garden's Residences is the last tall building left in Mid Valley City.

**200 years after people:** Istana Negara collapses after the domes are too heavy for the columns at the lobby to support, and the domes come toppling down into the lobby, destroying it completely. Meanwhile in the city center it is the end for both the Dato Onn and the Pavilion Suites. For the Dato Onn Tower, the tower has already begun to lean due to the underground car park. Eventually a section of the parking lot's pillar crumble, which leads to the base of the tower crashing down in a bang, and the rest of the structure leans further and collapses into the Putra World Convention Center. The supports holding the remaining20 floors of the Telekom Tower fail to support their enormous weight and they fail, and the tower collapses. Adjacent to the crumbling MyTown Shopping Center, the largest IKEA store in the country, IKEA Cheras, also suffers a structural failure and collapses on itself.

The Pavilion Suites Tower however will suffer a different way. The windows on the tower have long been blown out and the central core of the tower is reaching its end. Eventually the top section of the core comes crashing down, crumbling the central core and causing the top floors of the building to crumble down with it. The entire structure collapses vertically just like the World Trade Center in 2001, which damages Pavilion Mall which situated right next to the building.

**220 years after people:** The Sultan Abdul Sahmad Building, one of the oldest buildings in Kuala Lumpur has been reduced to just the clock tower, and it is about to meet its doom. The cables inside 2 ton bell inside the clock have been weakened by corrosion, and they snap, bringing the bell crashing onto the tower, destroying anything in its path. This sudden force causes the entire tower to collapse, disappearing into the jungle below.

**250 years after people:** The Exchange 106, the tallest building in the city and Malaysia is still standing at its base. Due to unprotection from rain as windows fall off the building and the tropical heat corroding the supports, the supports on the middle floors fail and the structure comes down. The Exchange 106 is gone. In Mid Valley City the Garden's Residences has faired better than its neighboring buildings due to its shape and architectural design. However, a section of the tower breaks off, which in turn causes the entire building to collapse in a pile of debris. The entirety of Mid Valley City has been reduced to just jungle and rubble. On the fringes of the Golden Triangle, a flood causes the bottom supports of MyTown Shopping Center to tip over and collapse, causing a chain reaction that brings the mall down on itself.

**275 years after people:** The Felda Tower collapses after lightning strikes damage the tower's middle floor supports, bringing the tower down on itself.

**300 years after people:** The Ilham Baru Tower can no longer hold up against nature's constant attacks. Windows that shatter allow moisture and corrosion to take place in the interior as the structural support fails. Eventually a key column on the one of the middle floors collapse, causing the tower to collapse on itself, bringing the structure down to rubble. In Batu Caves, the steel frame holding the Lord Murugan Statue together is beginning to fail as the golden paint fully disintegrates. Eventually several steel columns around the statue fail and give way, causing the statue to lose steel frames piece by piece until the entire statue remains of the concrete shell.

**400 years after people:** Unlike other structures, the AmBank Tower is still holding on. But torrential flooding has weakened the base and the tower twists sideways and finally collapses on itself. The concrete shell of Batu Caves now can no longer hold out against the tropical heat and humidity in Malaysia. The statue then topples over and smashes into the unrecognizable staircases buried long before.

**500 years after people:** The Petronas Towers are the tallest buildings in the world that are still standing as their super-strength cement helps to maintain its structural integrity. However, the super-strength cement has been severely weakened. One of the pinnacles collapse on one tower, causing the tower to lean and smash into the base of the other tower, sending both structures down in a smoke of debris. As they fall, Kuala Lumpur has now becomes unrecognizable from afar. However, some structures are still holding on, such as the Masjid Jamek, which what makes Kuala Lumpur recognizable, at least for now.

**900 years after people:** Masjid Jamek is one of the last partially intact structures still standing in Kuala Lumpur, but due to nearly a full millennium of weathering, corrosion and deterioration, the perseverant supports finally break, and the 3 domes of the mosque are sent crashing into the ground, as well as the rest of the structure.

**1000 years after people:** Kuala Lumpur has now transformed into a jungle the founders found in 1857. However, there are still remains of some of the buildings being hidden in the mighty jungle that still represents the city, although they are never to be seen from space again. A city home to nearly 2 million people now shows little significance in the surrounding valley from its former past, never to be built-up again.