Petronas Twin Towers

About Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at 451.9 m (1,483 ft). From 1998 to 2004, they were the tallest buildings in the world until they were surpassed by the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan. The Petronas Towers remain the world's tallest twin skyscrapers, surpassing the original World Trade Center towers in New York City, and were the tallest buildings in Malaysia until 2019, when they were surpassed by The Exchange 106. The Petronas Towers are a major landmark of Kuala Lumpur, along with the nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower and Merdeka 118, and are visible in many places across the city.

The Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia's most famous landmark and the icon of Kuala Lumpur, are an interlinked pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers standing 451.9 metres tall (375 metres to the top floor). They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004, when Taipei 101 overtook them, remain the world's tallest twin towers, and were Malaysia's tallest building until 2019. Named after the national oil company Petronas, which commissioned them, they were designed by the Argentine-American architect Cesar Pelli with a floor plan based on the eight-pointed star of Islamic art, and the two towers were awarded to two different contractors, Japanese and Korean, to ensure speed and competition. The towers are among the tallest concrete skyscrapers in the world; early in construction, ground settlement forced the whole building to be shifted several metres. A Skybridge on levels 41 and 42, one of the highest suspended bridges in the world, links the two towers, and the lifts work as double-deck cabins, the lower stopping at odd floors and the upper at even ones. Visitors first go up to the Skybridge and then to the observation deck on level 86, where the whole of Kuala Lumpur spreads out below, with displays and videos about the towers and their construction; at the base lie the Suria KLCC mall and KLCC Park with its fountains and the As Syakirin Mosque.

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia