#003 l Petronas Towers l KUALA LUMPUR l 452m l 88fl

[hypermount]

Who gave Petronas an egg???

I'm gonna wallop him.

[SEED]

wah.... hypermount... sooo samseng(gangsta) ah??? i wanna wallop him tooo!!!! mamamiya!!! whos that!!!!!!

[Pablo]

yaloh...i think the person very very hate Petronas Twin Tower......how come he gave Petronas Twin Towert an egg ah,Petronas Twin Tower is so beautiful......

[Peter The Great]

The Petronas Towers are simply stunning...I only hope I'm lucky enough in life to see them for myself...for those who think there's too much oriental influence in the architecture...I hope you like your average boxes.
0/10 for jealousy of K.L. but really...10/10!

[Liz L]

8.5/10 - they've got soaring height to spare, the overall design is pleasantly unique, and they sure are impressive at night. But that skyway looks like an afterthought because it doesn't fit the rest of the design. In any case, t's always nice to see inventive new skyscraper designs.

[Jasonhouse]

I consider the project to be one fo Pelli's masterworks, if only for one singular reason. He succeeded where so many other Western architects have failed. He successfully incorporated forms from the local culture into a commercial highrise building in a way that had rarely been accomplished beforehand in the Far East. Another interesting thing about the buildings is something that Pelli readily points out himself. The towers are defined as much by the void betweem them, as they are by the form of the towers themselves.

I gave them a 9.5/10

[renell]

When it comes to hight these towers are cheaters.

exactly. but I have to admit that this building is a masterpiece. But i still hate the spires

[hypermount]

The pinnacles, the crowns and the spheres are the most amazing parts of the towers. You should see them from near to admire the beauty. Problem is that we don't have close-up pictures of them.

Are you hating them because they're beautiful ?

How do we by-pass the security to go up the towers? Does szehoong know how to do so?

[Kevinkhoo1986]

is great|!!

Without reading any previous comments I'm just going to pop in and give the Petronas 9.5/10.

This is a landmark project. It will stand the test of time, IMO it's already a classic. I drooled over these towers the first time I saw the proposal, incredibly they are even better in reality. WOW.

The only missing .5 is solely because of their placement in KL. I'd like to see them as the pinnacles soaring out of a tight cluster, I've got an obsession with density!

[renell]

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i'm not simply a spire fan. and yes, this building is beautiful and i am a bit jealous. im going to airlift the Petronas to Makati, hahahaha j/k no harm intended.

[Black Cat]

10/10

Stunning - in the spirit of NY's late 20s/30s skyscrapers, yet still contextual.

[Wu-Gambino]

9/10

They are nice skyscrapers, and would look perfect in a city with thousands of skyscrapers like Hong Kong. However, they look like they are sitting alone. Also, the Skybridge is a good idea, but looks like an afterthought. Plus, I dislike spires making this building the world's tallest.

However, it is still a beautiful skyscraper.

[Kevinkhoo1986]

ooo.. 5 eggs..

[Andrew Goh]

You kidding me? They're the most beautiful thing in the world~
I'll give it 10/10, because they look like 2 giant corns, and I love corns~ HAHAHA

[Trisuno]

9
no comment

Totally disagree. Petronas Towers are simply great and PETRONAS is one of the richest companies in the world. They can afford it and they want to make it perfect. Now, it is simply a 99.99% perfect architecture.
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<tr><td align=left valign=top>The towers suffer from the problem that many Asian towers suffer from - oriental influences on skyscrapers simply do not work. They are fine for low-rise structures. But once you start mixing influences - you end up with a mutt that is neither one thing or the other. In other words - a jack of all trades, good at many things, excellent at none. And unfortunately, Petronas suffers because of this.

And the skybridge is a major faux-paux, although, functionally it works. So that is a wash in my book.

They are the worlds best example of underachieving architecture.

7.5/10

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MUST SEE!!!

Visit Petronas' official website at http://www.petronas.com.my/ for more information.

[1+2=3]

Nice, but there should be more high buildings in the surrounding of Petronas.

I realy don't agree that the Petronas towers are the hightest buildings in the world.

[huaiwei]

Appears that the enthusiastic efforts of chiefly East Asian builders like those in China and Taiwan has caused some to write-off any attempt to fuse "oriental" elements into architecture as failures. Perhaps I would like to bring to the general audience's attention, that a huge majority of developments in the Greater China region...(PRC, ROC, HK, even in areas where east asian builders are at work like Malaysia and Singapore) are all influenced by a thing called "Fengshui". Even seemingly "western" looking skyscrapers have come under the Fengshui's strong influence, which includes almost every major development in HK for eg. Now would anyone with one broad stroke dismiss all of these buildings as architectural failures?