G Hotel KelawaiPenang, Georgetown building photos, Malaysia architecture development

G Hotel Kelawai on Penang

29 March 2025

Design: K2LD Architects

Location: George Town, Penang, Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang

Photos © STAEK Photography unless otherwise stated.

Additional photos by Patrick Bingham Hall and K2LD Architects

G Hotel Kelawai, Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai is an urban hotel with a contemporary and sophisticated outlook targeted at corporate executives and well-heeled business people.

G Hotel Kelawai Penang Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai Penang Malaysia
photos © Patrick Bingham Hall

The hotel is a 24-storey building with 208 guest rooms, a rooftop infinity edge swimming pool, 3 food and beverage outlets including a roof top bar, a 24 hour gym, an executive lounge, state of the art function rooms, and a 2-storey basement car park. Passive environmental design strategies were harnessed to address the given climate, locality, and orientation of the site.

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang

To address the hot and harsh tropical climate all year round, as well as the high operating costs involved in running a high occupancy building, the building envelope is a double layered ‘skin’. The outer skin is a sun shading screen made in durable and easily recyclable aluminium, with hollow sections on the podium and expanded mesh on the tower component.

G Hotel Kelawai Penang
photo © K2LD

Deep concrete overhangs project out from the building floor plates, not only to cut off direct sunlight, but also to be manipulated to hold the screening devices in a geometrical form and pattern that is immediately iconic and engaging on the public and private realm.

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang Malaysia

About K2LD
K2LD – https://k2ld.com/ is an international Architecture and Interior Design practice with an evolving aspiration to deliver timeless spaces with inherent integrity and connection.

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang

The firm’s award-winning portfolio of work across Australia and Asia Pacific is representative of a diverse set of typologies and scales—from bespoke single-residential design through to multi-residential and commercial developments, dense inner-city hotels and museums, and nationally and internationally recognized civic and infrastructure precincts.

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang Malaysia

G Hotel Kelawai George Town Penang Malaysia

K2LD comprises a proud, passionate, and diverse group of individuals who collaborate to create meaningful community-centric outcomes within the urban environment.

G Hotel Kelawai Penang Malaysia
photo © Patrick Bingham Hall

Photography: STAEK Photography, Patrick Bingham Hall and K2LD Architects

G Hotel Kelawai, George Town, Penang images / information received 210325

Location: George Town, Penang, Malaysia, Southeast Asia

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