Tun Mustapha Tower

The Tun Mustapha Tower or Menara Tun Mustapha is a high-rise that about five kilometers outside the city center of Kota Kinabalu in the Malaysian state of Sabah is located. The building was opened in 1977 and at the time was the second tallest building in Borneo. It is a 30 - story office building of 122 meters. It appears from a distance at first cylindrical, but is actually a 72- sided polygon, which was covered with 2,160 reflective glass panels. The building was designed for wind speeds up to 272 km / h.

The building was initially built as Sabah Foundation Building ( Bangunan Yayasan Sabah ). After the death of Tun Mustapha, the first Yang di - Pertua Negeri and third Prime Minister of Sabah, the building was renamed in his honor.

The tower was originally equipped with a revolving restaurant at the 18th floor, which turned once per hour and offered a view of the harbor Likas. The site was abandoned and that the building of a pure office use supplied. In the outbuildings of the Tun Mustapha Tower, a lecture hall, two theaters, an exhibition hall, a gymnasium, a children's garden and a research library are housed.

1997 ascended the French climber Alain Robert facade with the permission of the government of Sabah, the building as part of a Benfizveranstaltung.