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Petronas Towers
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Height: Occupied
375 m / 1,230 ft   Height: To Tip
451.9 m / 1,483 ft
Height: Architectural
451.9 m / 1,483 ft  
Petronas Twin Tower 1 Outline
Tallest Building:
Petronas Twin Tower 1
Floors Above Ground
88
Floors Below Ground
5
# of Elevators
39
Top Elevator Speed
7 m/s
Tower GFA
197,500 m² / 2,125,872 ft²

Facts & Figures

Official Name Petronas Towers
Status Completed
Country Malaysia
City Kuala Lumpur
Complex Function office
# of Parking Spaces 250

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Buildings in Complex

  Completed   Architecturally Topped Out   Structurally Topped Out   Under Construction   On Hold   Never Completed   Proposed   Vision   Demolished
ID #   Status Building Name City Height (m) Height (ft) Floors Completion Material Use
149 1   COM Petronas Twin Tower 1 Kuala Lumpur (MY) 451.9 1,483 88 1998 composite office
150 1   COM Petronas Twin Tower 2 Kuala Lumpur (MY) 451.9 1,483 88 1998 composite office
700 3   COM Petronas Tower 3 Kuala Lumpur (MY) 267 876 60 2012 concrete office

CTBUH Initiatives

CTBUH Releases Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2012
Dec 2012 – CTBUH Journal Paper

CTBUH Releases Analysis of Global Population and Tall Buildings
Apr 2011 – CTBUH Journal Paper

CTBUH / Nakheel Asia Tour Report
19-29 Apr 2007 – Tour Report

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CTBUH Releases Year in Review: Tall Trends of 2012
Dec 2012 – CTBUH Journal Paper
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Apr 2011 – CTBUH Journal Paper
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CTBUH / Nakheel Asia Tour Report
19-29 Apr 2007, Shanghai – Tour Report
CTBUH collaborated with the Dubai-based developer Nakheel and architects Woods Bagot to facilitate a 5-nation tour of seminal tall buildings in south-east Asia.
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Dec 2009, Chicago – CTBUH News
This article describes some of the events which took place in the Council's long, and sometimes complex, history of measuring tall buildings.
Top Company Rankings: The World’s 100 Tallest Buildings
13 Oct 2016, Chicago – CTBUH Research
The Council is pleased to announce the Top Company Rankings for numerous disciplines as derived from the list of projects appearing in 100 of the World’s Tallest Buildings.
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22 Aug 2018, Chicago – CTBUH Research
CTBUH has released a Tall Buildings in Numbers (TBIN) interactive data study on the world's tallest buildings with dampers.
CTBUH 50th Anniversary: Moments in History #4
2 May 2019, Chicago – Conference Activity
CTBUH Moment in History #4 discusses the controversial claim by the Petronas Towers for the title of “World’s Tallest Building” over the record holder at the time, Willis Tower.

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Rethinking CTBUH's Height Criteria in the Context of Tall Timber
30 Oct 2017 – Robert Foster, The University of Queensland

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?
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CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Panel,"Tall Buildings and Context: How High Can We Go and Why Should We?"
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Rethinking CTBUH's Height Criteria in the Context of Tall Timber
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Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?
16 Mar 2017 – Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series; Antony Wood, CTBUH; Richard Tomasetti, Thornton Tomasetti; Ian Smith, thyssenkrupp, Gordan Gill, Adrain Smill + Gordon Gill Architecture
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CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Panel,"Tall Buildings and Context: How High Can We Go and Why Should We?"
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17 Oct 2016 – Presentation at CTBUH 2016 China Conference; Dennis Poon, Thornton Tomasetti
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CTBUH Video Interview – Karl Fender
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Interview: Faudziah Ibrahim
27 Oct 2015 – 2015 New York Conference Interviews; Faudziah Ibrahim, KLCC
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Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award: Wind Engineering the World’s Tallest
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Fazlur Khan Lifetime Achievement Medal: Geotechnics for the World’s Tallest
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Interview: Fazlur Khan Winner: Clyde Baker
7 Nov 2013 – 2013 Awards Ceremony/Symposium Interviews; Clyde N. Baker, Jr., AECOM
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Fazlur Kahn Lifetime Achievement Medal: A Lifetime’s Engineering Collaboration
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Interview: Fazlur Khan Winner: Charles Thornton & Richard Tomasetti
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Advanced Structural Silicone Glazing
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Founder and First Chairman 'Lynn Beedle'
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Oct 2004 – CTBUH 2004 Seoul Conference; Hwa-Cheol Song & Yun-Sung Jang, Korea Maritime University; Young-Kyu Ju, University of Texas at Austin; Dae-Young Kim, Daewoo Insitute of Construction Technology
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Life Safety System Design for the Petronas Twin Towers
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Review of Evacuation Procedures for Petronas Twin Towers
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