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    The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. Designed by Argentine architects and completed in 1998 after 7 years of construction, the twin towers feature a steel and glass facade inspired by Islamic art and have 560,000 square meters of column-free office space. Constructed of reinforced concrete due to a lack of steel, the towers use a sophisticated structural system supported by concrete cores and super columns.

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    The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. Designed by Argentine architects and completed in 1998 after 7 years of construction, the twin towers feature a steel and glass facade inspired by Islamic art and have 560,000 square meters of column-free office space. Constructed of reinforced concrete due to a lack of steel, the towers use a sophisticated structural system supported by concrete cores and super columns.

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    The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004. Designed by Argentine architects and completed in 1998 after 7 years of construction, the twin towers feature a steel and glass facade inspired by Islamic art and have 560,000 square meters of column-free office space. Constructed of reinforced concrete due to a lack of steel, the towers use a sophisticated structural system supported by concrete cores and super columns.

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    Petronas Towers

    The Petronas Towers (also known as the Petronas Twin Towers or KLCC) are skyscrapers
    and twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They were the tallest buildings in the world
    from 1998 to 2004 until surpassed by Taipei 101, but remain the tallest twin buildings in the
    world.[5]The building is the landmark of Kuala Lumpur with nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower.

    History
    Designed by Argentine architects César Pelli and Djay Cerico under the consultancy of Julius
    Gold and Filipino engineer Domingo Basa, the Petronas Towers were completed in 1998 after
    a seven year build and became the tallest buildings in the world on the date of completion.[10]
    They were built on the site of Kuala Lumpur's race track.[11] Because of the depth of the
    bedrock, the buildings were built on the world's deepest foundations.[12] The 120-meter
    foundations were built within 12 months by Bachy Soletanche and required massive amounts
    of concrete.[13] 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.[14] 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.
    [15]
    Tower 1 was built by a Japanese consortium led by the Hazama Corporation while Tower
    2 was built by Samsung C&T and Kukdong Engineering & Construction, both South Korean
    contractors. The sky bridge contract was completed by Kukdong Engineering & Construction.
    Although the Japanese company started construction earlier, the South Korean companies
    were able to complete construction ahead of the Japanese company's schedule. Thus, Tower 2
    became the first to reach the world's tallest building at the time.[16]

    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.[17] 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[18] 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.[19] Below the twin
    towers is Suria KLCC, a shopping mall, and Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, the home of the
    Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Other buildings have used spires to increase their height but have always been taller overall to
    the pinnacle when trying to claim the title. In the aftermath of the controversy, the rules
    governing official titles were partially overhauled, and a number of buildings re-classified
    structural antenna as architectural details to boost their height rating even though nothing was
    actually done to the building.

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