Petronas Towers
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 | Petronas Towers |
| Designer | Cesar Pelli |
| Location | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Date | 1998 |
| Building Type | skyscraper, commercial office tower |
| Climate | tropical |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
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| Notes | Tapering twin towers (connected by a sky bridge) share an Islamic-influenced geometrically polygonal plan. Featured extensively in Entrapment, a cool action movie starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Petronas_Towers.html |
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At 1483 feet (452m) tall, the tallest building in the world at the date of its completion, measured to the highest point. However, the Sears Tower in Chicago still had the highest occupied building floor, more than 200 feet higher than the highest occupied floor of the Petronas Towers.
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The towers have 32,000 windows.
— Judith Dupre, Skyscrapers.
Each of the twin Petronas Towers is 88 stories plus an additional architectural point (at 1242 feet), plus a tall spire to 1483 feet. Compare to the World's Tallest Buildings web site has a good explanation of the arcane reasoning behind the title of "world's tallest building".
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"Building Petronas Towers", by Cesar Pelli and Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 135, 2003.0219, pB1. Includes building section and detail drawings.
Cesar Pelli and Michael J. Crosbie. Petronas Towers: The Architecture of High Construction. John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN 0471495476. — Available at Amazon.com
Super Structures of the World : Skyscrapers. 1998. VHS-NTSC format video tape. ISBN 1575233649.— Video - Available at Amazon.com
Judith Dupre. Skyscrapers. Black Dog and Leventhal, June, 1996. ISBN 1-8848-2245-2. — A fun and informative gift book in skycraper format, 18" tall and 7.5" wide, with perfect pictures and key information on tallest buildings over the decades, up to the 1998 Petronas Towers. Available at Amazon.com
Architectural Record, January 1999. feature article.
[edit] External Links
- Wikipedia Article
- Is 2000 Feet Per Minute Enough — Otis Elevator article about super-elevator engineering issues
- The Official Website
- Structurae: Petronas Towers
- SkyScrapers.org - Illustration Entry of Petronas Towers
- panoramas.dk 360-Panorama Petronas Tower
- Petronas Twin Towers: Analysis of the Form
