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Ocean Mall

Ocean Mall

Shopping mall, corporate offices in Karachi, Pakistan


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]

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Founded as an international hotel project for Sofitel, but was later abandoned due to 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

Ocean Towers at night

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 with 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

On March 22, 2022 a three-year-old boy was injured after being stuck in an escalator of the ocean mall in Clifton.[8][9] According to the mother of the injured child, this incident happened when they were going from the second floor 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 Child to nearest Hospital to take care and First Aid. 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


References

  1. "Karachi Skyscraper Diagram - SkyscraperPage.com". skyscraperpage.com.
  2. "Ocean Towers, Karachi | 1205401 | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  3. Arshad, Aisha (November 28, 2016). "Out with the old, in with the new".
  4. "Unfortunate accident: Worker dies after falling off 25th floor of Ocean Towers". The Express Tribune. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  5. "Country's tallest building inaugurated". PakistanToday. 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
  6. Hassan, Wasif (2022-07-26). "Legal Debate over the Ocean Mall Incident". Paradigm Shift. Retrieved 2023-08-24.

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