Petronas Towers
General Information
| Function / usage: |
Office building
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| Architectural style: |
Modern Islamic
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| Built: | 1992 - 1998 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Asia |
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| Coordinates: | 3° 9' 29.00" N 101° 42' 43.00" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| highest occupied floor | 375 m | |
| height | 452 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 88 |
Quantities
| concrete volume | 160 000 m3 |
Materials
| building structure |
high-strength reinforced concrete
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Participants
Owner
Architecture
- Adamson Associates Architects
- Cesar Pelli & Associates, Inc.
- RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
- Cesar Pelli & Associates, Inc.
Wind tunnel testing
Structural engineering
Main contractor
- Hazama Corporation (tower 1)
Contractor
- Solétanche Bachy (foundations)
Co-contractor
- Bachy Soletanche Group Limited (tower 2)
- Dragages Singapore Pte Ltd (tower 2)
- First Nationwide Engineering Sdn Bhd. (tower 2)
- Ho Hop (tower 1)
- J. A. Jones Construction (tower 1)
- Kuk Dong Engineering & Construction Co Ltd. (tower 2)
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (tower 1)
- MMC (tower 1)
- Samsung Engineering & Construction (tower 2)
- Syarikat Jasatera Sdn Bhd. (tower 2)
Steel construction
- Eversendai Engineering (tower 2)
Formwork
Lifting
- VSL International (bridge)
Building services engineering
Relevant Web Sites
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004: Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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archINFORM: Petronas Towers
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ArchiWeb: Petronas Twin Towers
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Great Buildings Online: Petronas Towers
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Great Structures of the World: Petronas Twin Towers
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Hazama: Petronas Towers
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Kuala Lumpur City Centre
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PBS: Building Big - Petronas Towers
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Petronas
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Petronas: Twin Towers
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Wikipedia: Petronas Twin Towers
Relevant Publications
- The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Phaidon, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 0714844500, 2005
- The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, Phaidon, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 0714843121; pp. 98
- Ten Years of Structural Engineering International, in "Structural Engineering International", February 2001, n. 1 v. 11
- The Encyclopedia of Malaysia (5): Architecture, Archipelago Press, Singapore (Singapore), ISBN 9813018437, 1998; pp. 128-129
- Skyscrapers, Black Dog & Loventhal, New York (USA), ISBN 1884822452, 1996; pp. 114-115
- Skyscrapers (2nd edition), Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., New York (USA), ISBN 1579127878, 2008; pp. 118-119
- The World of Footbridges, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 3-433-02943-1, 2011; pp. 142
- Fußwegbrücken und Radwegbrücken, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 3433029377, 2011; pp. 142
- The Petronas Twin Towers, Malaysia, in "Structural Engineering International", August 1997, n. 3 v. 7
- Remaking the World, Alfred A. Kopf, New York (USA), ISBN 0375400419, 1997; pp. 203-212
- So Long Sears, Hello Kuala Lumpur, in "Engineering News Record", 15 January 1996
- Horizons architecture / Architectural Horizons, Editions Le Moniteur, Paris (France), ISBN 2281191478, 2001
- Design of the world's tallest buildings - Petronas Twin Towers at Kuala Lumpur City Centre, in "The Structural Design of Tall Buildings", 1997, n. 4 v. 6
- Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, in "VSL News", 1996, n. 1 v. 7
- Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, in "VSL News", 1999, n. 1 v. 10
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000053 |
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| Created: | 28/10/1998 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |



