Petronas Office Towers

I. Introduction
The Petronas Towers were designed to be the centrepiece of a larger complex called the
Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), a mixed-use development with a site area of 14.15 acres,
which includes the towers, two other office towers, underground parking and service
facilities. The project site is well located in the heart of the commercial district of the city, the
‘Golden Triangle’. Each of the twin towers is eighty-eight storeys high and contains 218,000
square metres of floor space. Rising 452 metres, the towers were certified the world’s tallest
buildings by the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 1996. The two towers are
connected by a sky bridge at the forty-first and forty-second floors – the sky lobby levels – to
facilitate inter-tower communication and traffic. A multi-storey shopping and entertainment
galleria connects the office towers at their bases, integrating the entire complex. Other public
functions within the complex include the Petroleum Discovery Centre, an art gallery, an 865-
seat concert hall and a multimedia conference centre.