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Project Highlight Highrise living beside a park. Highrise living outside Kuala Lumpur where park land takes centre stage Developer SDB allocates almost half of the land for ‘Windows on the Park’ for the development of a park. View of the pool deck. 8 Building & Investment | www.b-i.biz FOR MOST developments, the landscaping, parks or any kind of greenery are usually introduced as fillers, after all available space has been utilised for the building construction. Landscaping usually takes second place after the physical apartment blocks or rows of houses. With Windows on the Park, developer Selangor Dredging Berhad (SDB) reverses the approach, giving the development of the park priority over physical buildings. Before anything else, space was set aside for a park large enough to serve the needs of the entire community. Only then were the three multistorey residential blocks constructed on the remaining portion of the land. Three archways at strategic locations will serve as gateways from one zone of the park to another, or as ‘windows’ through which you will be able to gaze at activities around the park. There will be zones for peaceful and quiet pastimes such as reading or the more vigorous activities that children engage in such as running and playing; and for those with an active lifestyle, there are tracks for jogging and cycling. For badminton enthusiasts, there will be a court inside the multi-purpose hall where they