Famous Building

The Petronas Towers or the twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are the world's tallest twin towers. Designed by the Argentinean-American architect Cesar Pelli and completed in 1997, they surpassed Chicago's Sears Tower as the record-holding tallest structure as they stand at the height of 1483 ft (452 m), but they themselves were surpassed by Taipei 101 in 2003. The twin towers house Petronas, Malaysia's government-owned oil company, as well as associated Malaysian firms and multinational companies. Part of a large burst of construction that marked the country's 1990s economic boom, the buildings stand at the northern end of a projected high-tech business zone, the Malaysia Multimedia Supercorridor. Built of steel-reinforced concrete columns clad in stainless steel and glass, with a design based on geometric patterns originating in ancient Islam, the 88-story buildings are connected at levels 41 and 42 by a double-decker pedestrian skybridge, and each tower is surmounted by a 242-ft-high (74-m) pinnacle. At the lower level, the Petronas Towers also include a concert hall that is home to the Malaysian Philharmonic and a business reference library.