Suites have bright, freestanding bathtubs and the eighth-floor chill-out lounge opens to a panoramic sun deck.

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Inside the 76-story tower's rippled steel exterior lies a lifeguard-manned swimming pool and sun deck, a boxing studio, a children's library, a grilling terrace with "dining cabanas, " a billiards room, a squash court and a golf simulator, just to name a few.

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The sun heats the varnished wooden deck to the point where it feels like an egg broken on the side would fry in an instant.

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From a sun lounger on your private rosewood deck, all you can see is a stretch of tawny grassland extending beyond your infinity-edge pool to a ridge of distant hills.

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The water gently laps beneath the deck of our villa, as we admire the sun setting over the Straits of Malacca.

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Then the overrated bush-league April sun chokes in front of 59, 000 fans and drops behind the third deck.

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