:: The One With Sunway Pyramid ::
Sunway Pyramid joined in the up-market segment after Midvalley’s The Gardens and the more recent Putrajaya Holding’s Pavillion Kuala Lumpur, with their own Phase 2. I’ve heard of how nice it was and frankly, after being mesmerized with The Gardens and Pavillion KL, the long awaited trip to Sunway Pyramid materialized even with the horrendous traffic jams in the area.
Phase 2 is built upon an extension of the old parking lot of Phase 1, which explains the huge columns in the middle of the walkways.
The escalators remind me of the design used in The Gardens.
Honestly, I cant help but feel that Sunway Group was in a hurry to complete the 2nd Phase as there were still foreign workers doing some touch up work. Adding to that is that usage of bland 1 by 1 feet tiles as their finishing. With practically all modern day shopping malls using 2 by 2 feet tiles to add a wider/bigger area visual, Sunway Pyramid seriously dealt a serious blow to their own image.
After walking around about for some time, suddenly the interior theme changed drastically to some middle east theme. IMHO, it was horribly out of place.
Over at the other end, as I was just getting out of my disgust of the change of theme, Sunway Pyramid totally threw me off. The colour was a total mismatch and it plain made it an eye sore.
On the overall, I wouldn’t recommend Phase 2 in comparison with the old Phase 1. Its just plain yuck. Up-market? Nothing compared to Pavillion. Luckily, Subway had a outlet here and I’ve never tried it.
Subway offers 12 different sandwiches ranging from 6″ to a 12″ per sandwich to choose from, each with can be tailored to customer preference at a very reasonable price indeed. Great taste, healthier than fast food outlets makes Subway the way to go!
November 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
hehee…i didnt find it impressive either..the whole thing didnt match with Phase 1….but i didnt paid tha tmuch of attention like u la..not to the YUCK extend..:P
November 16th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Subway rules!!!!
The best thing since sliced bread…
And they even use sliced bread…How fricking awesome is that??
–|[s2k]|–
November 16th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
It seems that the malls in Asia are getting bigger and bigger and at this rate M’sia is going to have the largest malls in the world due to the rate of expansion at the cost of sweat blood and tears of the abused voice. Here in the North East we only have Metro Centre and thats nothing.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
gerald : ini menunjukkan bahawa kamu langsung tidak memerhatikan persekitaran anda.
sha : SUBWAY TOTALLY RULES! we had another one this evening. subway melt!
jon : actually malaysia already has the largest mall in asia i think. berjaya times square is officially the biggest in terms of floor area!
November 16th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
haha….. swt….. blekkkkkkk…… sunway 2……… ugly……..
November 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Subway RULES!!! But SUNWAY blues!!!! Booobooo to Sunway new phase… not nice at all!!!
November 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
loong : ugly le….
grace : hey it rhymes! but CARL’S JR RULES!
November 17th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
u all ah..so funny…
yes..subway’s kind of nice..but it seems that it has more varieties in Malaysia compared to the ones in UK la..
November 17th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
I duno why but the tiles and stuff reminds me of KOMTAR hahahaha what about the shops, nice or not?
btw, what camera u using arh? very nice larr.. esp the first picture..
November 17th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Malaysia has Subway?!!! I love Subway!!
November 17th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
gerald : you know la, in msia, anything also boleh wan. thats why they like SO DARN MANY THINGS TO CHOOSE FROM.
jill : the tiles totally suck. they bring down the whole ambience. the small tiles make the overall area sempit visually.
I’m using the panasonic lumix fx9. its old now and the processor is really slowing down, its hard to focus on things now. thinking of getting a d40 nikon next time when i work. nothing fancy though. not pro photographer.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
seems so many commentors here…. wei wei….. i also got food in my blog…. prawn mee….ehmmmmm…….. hahahhaa….
November 18th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
eh your blog SO MANY HITS lagi i jealous.
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
no subways pleaseeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not in msia!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2007 at 12:03 am
yah i really agreed with you that place has the worst design..and colour matching…
sunway, have lost sight, they kept thinking on how to win the “branded” shopping center .
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
yin : why not? makes you wanna come back to msia more?
liz : we went again to pyramid the other day for subway (their outlet in SP is by far the nicest we’ve been in), and this time we also found that the decors on the travelators are horrific!