Underground jewels for the Klang Valley MRT

An entrance to the Merdeka MRT Station, with the proposed KL118 retail block and tower in the background.

Natural features in the city form an aesthetical bedrock for transit architecture.

KUALA LUMPUR’S Klang Gates quartz ridge is an attraction like no other. Running northeast of Kuala Lumpur within the Bukit Lagong-Kanching-Klang Gates region, the 16km long quartz dyke is the longest of its kind in the world, and it is also unique as it has four types of quartz formations there.