{"id":147,"date":"2020-10-16T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:39:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T11:39:38","slug":"petronas-towers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/petronas-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Petronas Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<div class='white' style='background:rgba(0,0,0,0); border:solid 0px rgba(0,0,0,0); border-radius:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;'>\n<div id='slider_454' class='owl-carousel sa_owl_theme owl-pagination-true' data-slider-id='slider_454' style='visibility:hidden;'>\n<div id='slider_454_slide01' class='sa_hover_container' style='padding:0% 0%; margin:0px 0%; '>[caption id=\"attachment_455\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"683\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-455 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/Petronas-Tower-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Petronas Towers and the Kuala Lumpur skyline at dusk. 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Associates<br \/>\n<strong>Engineers:<\/strong> Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers<br \/>\n<strong>Contractors:<\/strong> Mayjus and SKJ Joint Ventures<br \/>\n<strong>Topping Out:<\/strong> 1998<br \/>\n<strong>Official Opening:<\/strong> August 28, 1999<br \/>\n<strong>Status:<\/strong> Extant\n<h2>\n\t\tPetronas Towers\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>On April 15, 1998, the Council on Tall Buildings named the Petronas Towers the tallest in the world, passing the torch to a new continent. Although the project&#8217;s developers, a consortium of private investors in association with the Malaysian government and Petronas, the national oil company, had not originally set out to surpass Chicago&#8217;s Sears Tower, they did aspire to construct a monument announcing Kuala Lumpur&#8217;s prominence as a commercial and cultural capital. In the design of American architect Cesar Pelli they found a winning scheme&#8211;twin towers of elegant proportions with a slenderness ratio (height to width) of 9.4&#8211;that would capture not only the title but the public imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Pelli&#8217;s design answered the developer&#8217;s call to express the &#8216;culture and heritage of Malaysia&#8217; by evoking Islamic arabesques and employing repetitive geometries characteristic of Muslim architecture. In plan, an 8-point star formed by intersecting squares is an obvious reference to Islamic design; curved and pointed bays create a scalloped facade that suggests temple towers. The identical towers are linked by a bridge at the 41st floor, creating a dramatic gateway to the city.<\/p>\n<p>The structure is high-strength concrete, a material familiar to Asian contractors and twice as effective as steel in sway reduction. Supported by 75-by-75-foot concrete cores and an outer ring of widely-spaced super columns, the towers showcase a sophisticated structural system that accommodates its slender profile and provides from 14,000 to 22,000 square feet of column-free office space per floor.<\/p>\n<p>Other features include a curtain wall of glass and stainless steel sun shades to diffuse the intense equatorial light; a double-decker elevator system with a sky lobby transfer point on the 41st floor to accommodate the thousands of people who use the complex daily; and a mixed-use base featuring a concert hall and shopping center enveloped by nearly seventy acres of public parks and plazas.<\/p>\n<p>In both engineering and design, the Petronas Towers succeed at acknowledging Malaysia&#8217;s past and future, embracing the country&#8217;s heritage while proclaiming its modernization. The end result, says Pelli, is a monument that is not specifically Malaysian, but will forever be identified with Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nHeight: 1,483 ft (452 meters) Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Owners: Kuala Lumpur City Centre Holdings Sendirian Berhad Architects: Cesar Pelli &amp; Associates Engineers: Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers Contractors: Mayjus and SKJ Joint Ventures Topping Out: 1998 Official Opening: August 28, 1999 Status:&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/petronas-towers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Petronas Towers&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/petronas-towers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Petronas Towers&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyscraper.org\/tallest-towers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}