[Grammar] twin tower

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Ashiuhto

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Please check out the following sentences.

1. Kuala Lumper is a modern city.
2. It has a charming airport, whose design is very marvelous.
3. The receptionists in the airport are friendly.
4. Besides, there is an impressive architecture called "Twin Tower".
 
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1. Kuala Lumper is a modern city.
OK.
2. It has a charming airport, whose design is very marvelous.
Could you explain what you mean by "charming" here? It's a bit unusual to call an airport charming, but it's OK if you know what your doing. You don't need the word "very" before "marvelous",
3. The receptionists in the airport are friendly.
I'd use "at the airport", but please wait for another opinion. I'm not sure "in" is wrong.
4. Besides, there is an impressive architecture called "Twin Tower".
Besides, there is an impressive piece of architecture called the Twin Towers.

Are these sentences supposed to make a whole? You enumerated them, so it's not clear that they form a contiguous piece of text. Do they?
 
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Note: Kuala Lumpur.
 

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I'm not sure about the use of "receptionists" at all for people who work at an airport. Who do you mean? The check-in staff? The people on the information desk? The air hostesses? Baggage handlers? There are so many people who work at an airport! If you don't want to specify one particular job, then I would just say "The airport staff are very friendly."
 

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Is it really called the Twin Tower, not the Twin Towers?

(Be aware that "the Twin Towers" has a different meaning to Americans. That was the term used for the World Trade Center building.)
 
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