Built: 1992-1998
Cost: $1,600,000,000.00
Designed by: Cesar Pelli & Associates
Type: Skyscraper
Stories: 88
Maximum Height: 1,483 feet / 452 meters
Location: Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Cost: $1,600,000,000.00
Designed by: Cesar Pelli & Associates
Type: Skyscraper
Stories: 88
Maximum Height: 1,483 feet / 452 meters
Location: Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
- combined the towers have 1,000,000m2 of floor space;
- at the 41st and 42nd level a skybridge connects the two towers 170m/558f above the ground.
This bridge is 58.4m/192f long, weighs 750 tons and is open for the public since the end of 2000.
The entrance is free (closed on Monday!), but only a limited amount of timed tickets (800) is given out each day.
Chances are you will have to wait in line quite a while, before you get such a free ticket;
and you're only allowed on the bridge for a mere 10 minutes. Worth it?
Maybe, but instead a visit to the observatory of Menara Kuala Lumpur is much more interesting,
though there is an entrance fee there (of RM15);
The entrance is free (closed on Monday!), but only a limited amount of timed tickets (800) is given out each day.
Chances are you will have to wait in line quite a while, before you get such a free ticket;
and you're only allowed on the bridge for a mere 10 minutes. Worth it?
Maybe, but instead a visit to the observatory of Menara Kuala Lumpur is much more interesting,
though there is an entrance fee there (of RM15);
- the towers have 32.000 windows;
- the building costs were US $ 1,2 billion;
- the towers were designed to symbolise strength and grace using geometric principles typified in Islamic architecture;
- without pinnacle the buildings are 'only' 378m/1,240f tall;
- the towers are part of the 100-acre KLCC Development.
Other components of the development include the Suria KLCC, a six-story, 93,000 square feet shopping centre
(with 270 specialty shops, cinema's and a food arcade), Menara Maxis, Menara Esso, the 20-hectare KLCC Park,
a 6,000 capacity Surau, the District Cooling Centres to provide air conditioning
and infrastructure works within the vicinity.
The whole complex was built on a former horse-racing track;
- the towers' complex includes an art gallery, an 840-seat concert hall, and an underground parking lot;
the main occupant of the buildings is Petronas, the national oil-company;
- though completed in 1998, the buildings were officially opened on August 28th, 1999;
- each tower contains 80,000 m3 of concrete in strengths up to Grade 80, almost 11,000 tonnes of reinforcement,
and 7,500 tonnes of structural steel beams and trusses.
- when standing in front of the building and looking towards the entrance,
like seen on the picture above on the left (kl015), tower 2 is the building on the left,
and tower 1 is the building on the right.
- the building costs were US $ 1,2 billion;
- the towers were designed to symbolise strength and grace using geometric principles typified in Islamic architecture;
- without pinnacle the buildings are 'only' 378m/1,240f tall;
- the towers are part of the 100-acre KLCC Development.
Other components of the development include the Suria KLCC, a six-story, 93,000 square feet shopping centre
(with 270 specialty shops, cinema's and a food arcade), Menara Maxis, Menara Esso, the 20-hectare KLCC Park,
a 6,000 capacity Surau, the District Cooling Centres to provide air conditioning
and infrastructure works within the vicinity.
The whole complex was built on a former horse-racing track;
- the towers' complex includes an art gallery, an 840-seat concert hall, and an underground parking lot;
the main occupant of the buildings is Petronas, the national oil-company;
- though completed in 1998, the buildings were officially opened on August 28th, 1999;
- each tower contains 80,000 m3 of concrete in strengths up to Grade 80, almost 11,000 tonnes of reinforcement,
and 7,500 tonnes of structural steel beams and trusses.
- when standing in front of the building and looking towards the entrance,
like seen on the picture above on the left (kl015), tower 2 is the building on the left,
and tower 1 is the building on the right.
It is designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and Filipino-Malaysian Engineer Deejay Cerico under theconsultancy of J. C. Guinto, also known as the Golden Boy of Architecture, and Filipino DesignerDominic "Minick" Saibo, the Petronas Towers were completed in 1998 after seven years of construction and became the tallest buildings in the world. They were built on the site of Kuala Lumpur's race track. Because of the depth of the bedrock, the buildings were built on the world's deepest foundations. The 120-meter foundations were built within 12 months by Bachy Soletanche and required massive amounts of concrete. Its engineering designs on structural framework were contributed by Haitian engineer Domo Obiasse and colleagues Aris Battista and Princess D Battista.
The 88-floor towers are constructed largely of reinforced concrete, with a steel and glass facade designed to resemble motifs found in Islamic art, a reflection of Malaysia's Muslim religion. Another Islamic influence on the design is that the cross section of the towers is based on a Rub el Hizb, albeit with circular sectors added to meet office space requirements.
Due to a lack of steel and the huge cost of importing steel, the towers were constructed on a cheaper radical design of super high-strength reinforced concrete. High-strength concrete is a material familiar to Asian contractors and twice as effective as steel in sway reduction; however, it makes the building twice as heavy on its foundation than a comparable steel building. Supported by 23-by-23 metre concrete cores and an outer ring of widely spaced super columns, the towers use a sophisticated structural system that accommodates its slender profile and provides 560,000 square metres of column-free office space.Below the twin towers is Suria KLCC, a shopping mall, and Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, the home of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
