PETRONAS Twin Tower.

        The PETRONAS twin tower owner is KL CC HOLDING SDN BHD

The PETRONAS Twin Tower Wallpaper.

     The PETRONAS twin tower located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Its design by Cesar Pelli is inspired by the Islamic, rub el Hazed-two overlapping squares,  rotated to create an eight-pointed star.

• Preceded by=
• Willis tower.
• Surpassed by=
• Taipei 101.
• General information.
• Type=
• Commercial  offices  and  tourist  attraction.
• Architectural style=
• Post modern architecture Jalap Am pang.
• Location=
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Coordinates=
• 3.15785 N 101.71165 E Coordinates : 3.15785 N 101.71165 E.

      Below the twin towers is Suria KL CC, a shopping mall, and Dewan Philharmonic PETRONAS, the home of the Malaysian philharmonic orchestra.

• History.

      The towers were designed by Argentine architect Cesar Pelli. They chose a distinctive postmodern style to create a 21^st-century icon for Kula Lumpur.

• Groundbreaking=
• 1 January 1992.
• Construction started=
• 1March 1993.
• Completed=
• 1 April 1994.
• Inaugurated=
• 1 August 1999.
• Renovated=
• 1 January 1997.
• Cost=
• US $ 1.6 billion.

The PETRONAS twin tower design and construction.

design and construction.

                        

• Architect=
• Cesar pelli.
• Developer=
• KL CC Holdings Sdn Bhd.
• Main Contactor=
• Tower 2:Samsung engineering & construction and Kukdong Engineering & construction city center: B.L. Herbert international.

      The construction of the superstructure commenced on 1 January 1996, the spires of tower  1 and tower 2 were completed on 1 march 1996, and the first batch of ‘PETRONAS’ Personnel moved into the building on 1 January 1997. The building was officially opened by the Prime Minister of  Malaysia’s  Ton DR. Mahathir bin Mohammad  on 1 August 1999.

      The concrete raft foundation, comprising 13,200 cubic Meters (470,00 cu ft)  of concrete was continuously poured through a period of 54 hour for each tower. The raft is 4.6 meters (15 ft) thick, weighs 32,500 Tones (35,8oo tons) and held the world record for the largest concrete pour until 2oo7

      Due to the huge cost of  importing steel , the towers were constructed on a cheaper radical design of super high-strength reinforced concrete.

• The PETRONAS twin tower Technical details are.
• Floor area=
• 395,000 M (4,252,000 sq ft).
• Floor count=
• 88(+5 basement floors).
• Lifts/elevators=
• 78.

      The main bank of Otis lifts is located in the center of each tower. All main lifts are double-Decker with the lower deck of the lift taking passengers to even numbered floors. To reach an odd-numbered floor from ground level, passengers must take an escalator to the upper deck of the lift.

       From The ground floors between level 2/3 and level 16/17. The mid haul group of six lifts take passengers to floors between level 18/19 and level 37/38. There is also a set of shuttle lifts that take passengers directly to levels 41/42.

To get to levels above 41/42, passengers must take the shuttle lifts, then change to lifts are directly above the lifts that serve levels 2 to 38 the pattern now repeats with the upper levels, one set serving levels 43/44 to 57/58 and one set serving levels 59/60 to levels 73/74.

• The PETRONAS twin tower Height is.
• Architectural=
• 451.9m (1,483 ft)
• Roof=
• 378.6m (1,230 ft)
• Top floor=
• 375m (1,230 ft)

• Service building.

The service building is to the east of the PETRONAS  towers and contains the services required to keep the building operation, such as dissipating the heat from the air-conditioning system fro all 88 levels in both towers spanning 17 acres (6.9 ha) below the building is the KL CC park with jogging and walking paths, a fountain with incorporated light show, wading pools, and a children’s

playground.