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The Aztec Temple
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The Borobudur Temple
The Inca City
The Statue of Liberty
The Mayan Temples
The Temple of the Inscriptions
The Throne Hall of Persepolis
Petra
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Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Towers, which is also known as the Petronas Twin Towers, is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Standing at 1,483 ft, they were once the world's tallest buildings. However, the Petronas Towers continue to be the tallest twin towers in the world. The Petronas Towers were designed by Cesar Pelli of Argentina and was completed in 1998.
The towers consist of 88 floors and have a steel and glass façade. The towers were designed keeping motifs of Islamic art in mind. The buildings were built with foundations reaching 120 meters deep. Different construction companies were hired for each of the two towers, and they were made to compete against each other. Eventually the builders of Tower 2, Samsung Constructions, won the race, despite starting a month behind Tower 1, built by Hazama Corporation.


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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. 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 as a comparable steel building. Supported by 23-by-23-metre concrete cores and an outer ring of widely-spaced super columns, the towers showcase a sophisticated structural system that accommodates its slender profile and provides from 1300 to 2000 square metres of column-free office space per floor.
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The Sky Bridge is on the 41st floor, between the 41st and the 42nd floors. It is 170 meters high and 58 meters long.

Tower One is fully occupied by the Petronas Company itself and its subsidiary and associate companies. The office spaces in Tower Two are leased to other companies like Accenture, Al Jazeera International, Bloomberg, Boeing, Microsoft, IBM etc. Below the twin towers is Suria KLCC, a popular shopping mall, and the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, which is the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. There is a park with jogging and walking tracks, a fountain with incorporated light show, pools, and a children's playground outside the building.

The Sky Bridge is open to all visitors from Tuesday to Sunday, but passes, which are limited to 1400 per day, usually run out before noon and so must be obtained on a first-come, first-served basis. Passes are free. The Sky Bridge was built as a safety device in the event of a fire or other emergency in any one of the towers. Tenants could evacuate by crossing the Sky Bridge to the other tower. However, the total evacuation triggered by a bomb hoax on September 12, 2001, showed that the bridge was insufficient if both towers need to be emptied simultaneously, and the capacity of the staircases was not enough as well. Know more about Kualalumpur:



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