Equatorial Plaza

The tower overlooking Kuala Lumpur in the time of humans

The Equatorial Plaza is a 229 meter high-grade office and hotel building located within Downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 2018, the 52-storey building offers plenty of office space and is home to the Equatorial Hotel Kuala Lumpur, which occupies the upper-half of the building. The exterior of the building shows a mixed blue and white colored glass exterior, giving the building an iconic new look on the ever-growing Kuala Lumpur Skyline. The building is also fitted with a series of flexible VAV air-conditioning and some of the latest technology to "carry it to the future". But without humans, can the tower carry itself to survive whats to come ahead to the future, or will it succumb along with the others?

1 day after people: The Equatorial Plaza stands out from the others with its unique colored exterior, making an interesting addition to the Kuala Lumpur Skyline, but it is all about to change. At 9pm, with the white lights of the tower giving off a bright glow to the Bukit Bintang District, the local power plants's emergency generators stop functioning, and they fail en masse, leaving the tower pitched dark for good. The futuristic look of the tower at night is now back to the days of the Stone Age. Inside, the air conditioners in the building stop blowing out cold air, and the interior slowly begins to warm up to room temperature.

1 week after people: Just like any other building, the Equatorial Plaza is now being visited by a new visitor, the native animals. Rodents hide in the walls, looking for any sign of leftover food in the office cubicles, hotel rooms and restaurants while bigger animals check in to the lobby of the tower with the doors letting them inside. Birds also take a fancy in the tower, and will slowly begin to inhabit the building.

1 month after people: Most food scraps have been consumed by the rodents, animals and birds, which leads to most of the rodents and some of the animals and birds checking out of the Equatorial Plaza in search of more food in the city. Meanwhile, the glass exterior of the tower slowly covers with dust particles and turns dirty with nobody around to clean them. Inside, birds have settled next to the swimming pool, fending off mosquitos that also want to settle here and mass reproduce. A bloody civil war has begun, and the tower can only watch as the battle rages on in what was meant to be a place for leisure and comfort, not a battlefield. The plants also slowly begin to grow beyond their boundaries and will slowly grow to engulf the tower.

5 months after people: A massive dowpour strikes the city of Kuala Lumpur and causes the nearby Klang River to jump its bank and completely flood the city along with the help of other rivers. The lobby is flooded with the raging waters, sweeping away the furnishings of the lobby and submerging the helpless cars down below in the underground car park, setting off the car alarms to owners that no longer exist to check whats going on. The heavy winds brought on by the storm makes the tower sway slightly back and forth, making the water in the pool shake around and scaring away the birds and mosquitos. It also knock some of the trees adjacent to the swimming pool break and collapse, while some window panels shatter at the sheer force of the wind.

1 year after people: The moisture brought on by the Malaysian humidity begins attacking the interiors where some window panels were shattered 7 months ago during the Great Flood. Some light objects like paper and plastic cups are blown around by gusts of wind that occasionally break in the building. Meanwhile, the war between the birds and mosquitos over the Equatorial Plaza's swimming pool still wage on, with no possible winner for a few more months.

10 years after people: As failing window hinges cause windows across the tower to start plumetting down into the ground, it slowly reveals the concrete frame of the tower, exposing it to the forces of corrosion. The interiors of the tower are beginning to become unrecognisable as seeds are brought in and plantlife flourishes while silmutaniously destroys the interiors of the Equatorial Plaza. Meanwhile at the swimming pool, the birds have won the war 9 years prior and the mosquitos have seeked elsewhere for shelter, only a handful of mosquitos still remain undetected as birds assert their dominance of the swimming pool, which has been covered in light red from all the blood that was spilt by them. Althought the chlorine was meant to clean the water, without electricity, it fails to work, and the pool remains infested with the blood of both sides, as well as the dead remains of birds and mosquitos.

50 years after people: Nearly half of the tower's windows have come crashing down, revealing more and more of the concrete frame that is suffering from the effects of corrosion without maintenence. The interiors inside have been completely destroyed, with some floors becoming to heavy to support for the bottom floor supports, and a series of minor floor collapses happen throughout the Equatorial Plaza, but none are severe enough to cause the building to succumb.

100 years after people: Most windows are gone, and the tower has become a plant-infested gray concrete shell overlooking the post-apocalyptic city of Kuala Lumpur, which is slowly loosing the fight against nature all around. The beds of the hotel have been eaten away by insects and rodents, while office materials have either been blown away or buried in plants or underneath rubble. The tower still stands, but has lost its iconic look that make it unique from the rest of the now gray and slowly disappearing skyline of Kuala Lumpur.

175 years after people: The Equatorial Plaza still stands, but now, a section of the tower is reaching its end. At the swimming pool that has turned into a lake and a sanctuary for birds and a few mosquitos, the supports underneath it are unable to hold the volume of water the swimming pool has, and they give way. The water then dips and crashes down onto the floor beneath it, causing a pancake collapse and a section of the tower comes crashing down on the main tower's crucial support beams, bringing down the entire building with it as it falls 200 meters to the ground. The Equatorial Plaza has now vanished for good, the only signs that showed the building once stood is the office materials like pens that were once found in the Equatorial's Plaza offices. Trees soon cover the entire site where the Equatorial Plaza once stood, to be discovered by the next intelligent species. Until then, it'll stay here for good.