No. 1 EMBIE: The Malayan Plaza
The Malayan Plaza The Malayan Plaza (14.586491000000027,121.060045) is a building of mixed function: a residential condominium and a hotel. The Malayan Plaza: viewed along the street. (credits to: Google) The Location of The Malayan Plaza. (credits to: Google) The building is forty-storey high (145 meters), with helipad, and with six basement floors. The structure is made of structural steel elements with shear walls. Thus, it is a Steel Moment Resisting Frame (SMRF). The Architect of the building is Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. Originally was supposed to be 50 storeys. It now welcomes the world as a property managed by the Quantum Group. In the point of view of a structural engineer, the weights or loads considered here varies; thus, the type of occupancy will be different. So to appease the engineer’s difficulty in predicting the building’s response, he must have the data that verifies his analytical model responses to that of measurements by an accelerograph. In the oc