Ocean Mall
shopping mall, corporate offices in Karachi, Pakistan
Ocean Mall is a 393-foot-tall (120 m) skyscraper in the Clifton locality of Karachi, Pakistan. It was built between 2009 and 2014, and contains a shopping mall and office spaces.
It was founded as an international hotel project for Sofitel, but was later abandoned due to the law and order situation in the city. Later, it was redesigned into a shopping mall and was named The Mall.
Structural information
Ocean Tower is a 393-foot-high (120 m) skyscraper in Karachi. It contains 28 storeys above ground, and 5 below ground. 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.
The surface area of the project is 850,000 square feet.
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