Ocean Mall
General information
TypeShopping mall, corporate offices
LocationKarachi, Pakistan
Coordinates24°49′26″N 67°02′08″E / 24.82389°N 67.03556°E / 24.82389; 67.03556
Construction started2007
CostPKR 7  billion
Height
Roof120 m (390 ft)
Technical details
Floor count30 [1]
Design and construction
Architect(s)Arcop Associates
Structural engineerMushtaq & Bilal Consulting Engineers
Website
www.oceantower.pk

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]

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 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 there were no medical arrangements.[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. 1 2 "Ocean Towers, Karachi | 1205401 | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  3. 1 2 Arshad, Aisha (November 28, 2016). "Out with the old, in with the new".
  4. 1 2 "کراچی کی پانچ بلند ترین عمارتیں". Daily Jang.
  5. ↑ "Unfortunate accident: Worker dies after falling off 25th floor of Ocean Towers". The Express Tribune. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  6. ↑ "Country's tallest building inaugurated". PakistanToday. 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
  7. ↑ "THE OCEAN MALL, KARACHI – AAA Partnership Pvt. Ltd". Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  8. ↑ "Family of child injured by shopping mall escalator demands registration of FIR". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  9. ↑ Siddiqui, Tahir (2022-04-20). "Parents of child injured by escalator want FIR against mall". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  10. ↑ Hassan, Wasif (2022-07-26). "Legal Debate over the Ocean Mall Incident". Paradigm Shift. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  11. ↑ 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.
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