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Anyone who decides to look down from the Petronas Towers, the breath, because the world is not so many skyscrapers around which there is virtually no buildings that reach them at least from the waist up! Thanks to the surrounding panorama seems a distant and unattainable unthinkable!
Petronas Towers proudly towering over the capital of Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur. Colorful architecture, coupled with a truly giant size makes these skyscrapers one of the most remarkable buildings in the world!
Petronas Twin Towers Towers took 4th place in the ranking of the highest buildings in the world, and from 1998 to 2004, they won first place in this ranking)
At the end of the last century in the heart of highly built-up in Kuala Lumpur, in connection with the relocation of urban racetrack, freeing an area of 40 hectares. The cost of the land are already hundreds of millions of Malaysian dollars. Development project of this vast territory was taken over several years, as they were affected by the financial interests of the many public and private organizations. First on-site racetrack supposed to break a huge park, designed to become the "lungs" of the capital of Malaysia, preliminary cost estimates showed that equip and maintain the park can only be due to commercial activities. So here decided to build a business center with a park, expand the highways around the park and build a light rail transit line. When designing the Malaysian twins was not anticipated that they will become the tallest building in the world.
Design of Petronas Twin Towers took place with the participation of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, who offered to build a skyscraper in the Islamic style. That is why the complex has the form of two eight-pointed stars, and the dome of the building resemble the outlines of mosques.
Petronas Twin height - 451.9 meters. This 88-story skyscraper built in 6 years - from 1992 to 1998 by architect Cesar Pelli, who has decided to add to the "stars" conch for stability. Cesar Pelli is famous for the fact that designed the well-known International Financial Center in New York, as well as residential tower in the museum "MoMA." In the role of contractors were two companies, with one tower was responsible for the Japanese "Hazama" for another - "Samsung Engineering & Construction." This division has been attributed to the timing for the construction that customers were trying to squeeze the maximum.
Foundation Petronas Towers is the largest concrete foundation in the world - his unit took about 13 000 cubic meters of concrete! Length of supporting piles of nearly 390 feet, and the entire complex around the twins is 40 hectares!
For the construction of a skyscraper using a special reinforced concrete, whereby the skyscraper to get heavy similar steel buildings. The decoration of facades towers took 32,000 windows!
August 9, 1995 at 41 th and 42 th floors of the Petronas towers assembled a unique heavenly bridge linking the two skyscrapers. According to the architect Pelli, its construction is not only functional, but also symbolic. Heavenly bridge is located at an altitude of 170 m above the ground. Easy, graceful bridge connecting the Petronas towers to each other, was designed and built in South Korea by Samsung Heavy Industries. Its length is 58 meters, and the weight of all the structures of the bridge - 750 tons, it collected for three days and three nights. The bridge is a two-story and involves the latest engineering.
April 15, 1996, almost two years before the completion of construction, the Petronas Twin were considered the highest office building in the world. The official opening of this grand building was held on 28 August 1999.
In each of the Petronas Twin Towers, established 29 double-deck elevators, the total capacity of each of which is designed for 52 people. Their speed is 3.5 to 7 m / s. Currently, the Petronas towers operated 76 passenger and freight elevators.
The company Petronas has allocated for the construction of the towers about 800 million dollars, and other costs had made a number of Malaysian companies to be located within the offices of skyscrapers. In total, the construction of the towers took about $ 1.6 billion.
Overall skyscraper Petronas used as an office job. Thus, one of the towers completely occupies the corporation Petronas (Malaysia's oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Berhad), and the other - the tenants here are offices, exhibition and conference facilities, as well as an art gallery.
Through the success of the Petronas Towers, reducing them specialists construction department of Samsung were soon attracted to another expensive project - Burj Dubai.
