Crazy Escalators in Kuala Lumpur

Short 13 Mar 2024 2,782 views on YouTube 0:08

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A shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur has stacked its escalators in a configuration dense enough that looking up or down through the atrium turns into a genuine optical puzzle, lines crossing at angles that do not immediately make sense from any single vantage point. We filmed it from the base, trying to make sense of how many separate escalators were actually visible in one frame. Malls here treat vertical movement as its own kind of architectural statement.

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