Ocean Mall is a 120-metre-tall (393 ft) skyscraper in the Clifton locality of Karachi, Pakistan. It was built between 2009 and 2014, and contains a shopping mall and office spaces.[2]
| Ocean Mall | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Shopping mall, corporate offices |
| Location | Karachi, Pakistan |
| Coordinates | 24°49′26″N 67°02′08″E / 24.82389°N 67.03556°E |
| Construction started | 2007 |
| Cost | PKR 7 billion |
| Height | |
| Roof | 120 m (390 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 30 [1][better source needed] |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Arcop Associates |
| Structural engineer | Mushtaq & Bilal Consulting Engineers |
| Website | |
| www | |
It was founded as an international hotel project for Sofitel, but was later abandoned due to the law and order situation in the city.[3][4] Later, it was redesigned into a shopping mall and was named The Mall.[3][4]
Structural information
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Ocean Tower is a 120-metre-high (393 ft) skyscraper in Karachi.[5] It contains 28 storeys above ground, and 5 below ground.[2] The project has its own 5-megawatt powerhouse, as compared to the 2 MW- and 1.2 MW-capacity powerhouses of MCB Tower and the Arif Habib Building respectively, and it does not rely on K-Electric for power. The tower uses state-of-the-art technology for monitoring heat and smoke. It has nine passenger lifts and five cargo lifts.[6]
Surface area of the project is 850,000 sq.ft. Construction cost is Rs. 5 billion. The project architect is arcop Private Limited.[7]
Child incident
editOn March 22, 2022 a three-year-old boy was injured after being stuck in an Ocean Mall escalator.[8][9] According to the mother of the injured child, this incident happened when they were going from the second to the third floor of Ocean Mall. She further added that they kept calling the administration, but no one came to help, and even the buttons of the escalator were non-operational, and no medical assistance was provided. However, their management team took the child to the nearest hospital for medical assistance. They paid all medical expenses.[10] As a result of the incident, a protest was staged outside the Mall, near Teen Talwar in the upscale Clifton neighborhood and there was severe public outrage over the incident on social media with a trend called #BanOceanMall.[11]
See also
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edit- ^ "Karachi Skyscraper Diagram - SkyscraperPage.com". skyscraperpage.com.
- ^ a b "Ocean Towers, Karachi | 1205401 | EMPORIS". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Arshad, Aisha (November 28, 2016). "Out with the old, in with the new".
- ^ a b "کراچی کی پانچ بلند ترین عمارتیں". Daily Jang.
- ^ "Unfortunate accident: Worker dies after falling off 25th floor of Ocean Towers". The Express Tribune. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "Country's tallest building inaugurated". PakistanToday. 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^ "THE OCEAN MALL, KARACHI – AAA Partnership Pvt. Ltd". Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ^ "Family of child injured by shopping mall escalator demands registration of FIR". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ Siddiqui, Tahir (2022-04-20). "Parents of child injured by escalator want FIR against mall however unable to proceed as Police investigated and found Children were left alone on Escalator without Parents after seeing CCTV Video". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ Hassan, Wasif (2022-07-26). "Legal Debate over the Ocean Mall Incident". Paradigm Shift. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ^ Staff, Siasat (2022-05-11). "#BanOceanMall: Protests erupt against the mall management after a 3-year-old loses his foot due to faulty escalator". Siasat.pk News Blog. Retrieved 2023-08-24.