![]() That's because the Petronas Towers' listed height is padded by the 241-ft. The buildings only have 88 floors, quite paltry given their height. But despite their magnificent design, the height is somewhat deceiving. Completed in 2012, it is the world’s second tallest building, surpassed only by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. But the towers do not merely stand aside each other like many of their twinned brethren, a sky bridge connects the two towers halfway up the buildings. Abrj al-Bayt, also spelled Abrj al-Bait, also called Makkah Royal Clock Tower, multitowered skyscraper complex adjacent to the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. ![]() Named for the state-owned gas company Petronas, which inhabits Tower 1, both towers stretch 1,483 ft. The towers, which opened in 1998, held the title of world's tallest buildings until the completion of Taipei 101 in 2004. ![]() The towers borrow from the Islamic tradition, Malaysia's national religion, in their orderly repetition of steel and glass on the buildings' facade the crowning spires atop hearken back to the minarets that adorn mosques the world over. Kuala Lumpur's iconic Petronas Twin Towers were designed by an Argentine and built by Japanese and Korean contractors, but the structures are staunchly rooted in Malaysian culture. ![]()
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