Dear Mr. Gates:

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Date:  Mon, 12 February 2007  11:55 WesternIndonesiaTime

Subject:  Marina Hotel and Apartment

Pure Ulun Danu in Bali. Eric M. Oey, Impact Postcard Periplus Editions ( HK ) Ltd		Pure Tanah Lot in Bali. Aries W. Keris Postcard, Indonesia

Top view of Marina hotel and apartment.

Top view of basin with pond of sea animals and plants, water treatment, and power plant.

Front view of Marina hotel and apartment, with twin cylinder buildings inspired by a pagoda. Drawing made around 1994.

Taipei 101, the tallest building in the world. The design is inspired by traditional Chinese architecture, with a shape resembling a pagoda. Constructed 1999-2004. Photo and caption from Wikipedia.com		Petronas building in Malaysia, the tallest twin buildings in the world, with the shape of twin cylinders. Constructed 1995-1998 Photo from www.heis.no, caption from Wikipedia.com.

Along with drawing the design of hamburger shaped basin on the beach, I also made the drawing of Marina hotel and apartment design. It was inspired by the shape of pagoda in some sacred places in Bali like pure Tanah Lot and pure Ulun Danu.

A few years after that drawing of mine, there were two famous buildings that became the highest buildings in the world, the Petronas Tower and the Taipei 101. The Petronas tower is a twin cylinder buildings, somewhat like the two cylinder towers in my design. While Taipei 101, although rectangular, but inspired also by the pagoda just like my design.

It makes me feel like I have moved ahead of time, but because I was riding a bicycle while those buildings riding a sport car, so they finished earlier, ….he-he-he-he.

But to be sure of, I would not recommend anyone to build a tallest building in the world in Jakarta, because it is contradictory with around 40% Indonesian people who are still under the line of poverty.

Thank's,

A.M. Firmansyah

[email protected]

Tel. +62812 183 1538

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