KLCC Park was Burle Marx’s sole undertaking in Asia. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star. Spanning 23.5ha, it consists of 1,700 trees with some 200 closed-circuit television cameras for enhanced security.

KUALA LUMPUR: In the midst of the Himpunan Rakyat Bersatu rally in the city Wednesday, a group of Malaysians chose to do something different by hosting a birthday party for Malaysia.

The Ambassador of Brazil to Malaysia, Ary Norton de Murat Quintella, said the KLCC Park was designed by Brazil’s most renowned landscape architect, the late Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), which ...