KL Sentral is a major Central Business District in the Federal Capital occupying 75 acres of the Brickfields area adjacent to the National Museum, KTMB headquarters, National Art Gallery and the General Post Office. 

This colossal project was undertaken by a consortium consisting of Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB), Pembinaan Redzai Sdn Bhd (PRSB) and Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), who have been assigned to plan, design, build, operate and manage the entire development.

In December 1994, Perunding Alam Bina Sdn. Bhd. (PAB) in association with Kisho Kurokawa Architects (KKA) of Japan were appointed as urban planners to lead a team of local consultants for preparing a comprehensive master plan for a Mixed Development project comprising of the new Kuala Lumpur Central Station, Offices, Integrated Offices, Retail and Entertainment Complex, Hotel and Apartments, Condominiums, Public Amenities (Auditorium, Sports Club & Urban Park) and Car Parks.

The biggest challenge of the project was to plan for demanding commercial and technical requirements, to accommodate complex cross-disciplinary activities and the merging of different modes of transportation gathering at one place.

‘A city within a city’ was created, consisting of layers of elements composed on top of each other starting from the railway tracks at the ground level occupying half the site, the deck (a manmade elevated structure above the railway tracks), elevated roads and non-landed properties or buildings straddled above the railway tracks to compliment the other landed properties proposed within the site.