Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Petronas Towers


The Petronas Tower is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The architects was Cesar Pelli and Associates. Pelli’s design answered the developer’s call to express the culture and heritage of Malaysia by evoking Islamic arabesques and employing repetitive geometries characteristic of Muslim architecture. The Petronas Towers was official opening at August 28, 1999. It is very tall skyscraper with 41st floor. It is 452 meters (1,483 ft). The structure is high-strength concrete, a material familiar to Asian contractors and twice of effective as steel in sway reduction. Other features include a curtain wall of glass and stainless steel sun shades to diffuse the intense equatorial light.

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