The Skybridge of the PETRONAS Twin Towers
opens from Tuesday to Sunday.
The
Ticket Counter opens at 8.30am on every operational days.
The
visiting hours is from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
As for Monday, the Skybridge would be
opened for half day from 9.00am to 1.00pm during school holiday and open
full day from 9.00am to 5.00pm if the Monday is Public Holiday,
otherwise the Skybridge would be closed.
The ticket are not free of charge anymore. The ticket will cost RM10.-
The Skybridge Ticket
counter located at the Concourse Floor (underground) of the PETRONAS
Twin Towers. The floor can be accessed from both Towers.
There is no restaurant at the Skybridge.
There is only a club, Malaysian Petroleum Club located at Level 41&Level 42.
The club is only open for the members.
Observation Deck
The observation Deck is located at Level 86. A ticket to the Observation
Deck will cost you RM 40.-
The Petronas Towers are some of the highest
buildings in the world. They are 452 meters tall. Following the most
recent details: the Bamboo Shoot in Taiwan is at this moment the highest building in the world.
Also the
KL-Tower in Kuala Lumpur is just a little bit higher than the Petronas Towers,
but that's a little joke: the KL-Tower (telecommunication Tower) has been built on a
hill and that's why it is a bit higher.
The two towers are connected by a sky bridge.
When you want to visit the towers, then the sky bridge is the highest point you
can get. At this level is also a restaurant located.
If you would like to visit the towers, I would like to advise you to collect your free tickets
before ten o'clock. Otherwise it would become late afternoon to go up the
tower. If you collect your free ticket early in the morning, than there is on
the ticket the exact time, when you should be at the elevator to go up.
Do you come at ten o'clock, the exact time should probably 13.00 to go
up to the sky bridge.
You can collect your free tickets at the ground floor.
The elevator, which brings you to the sky bridge, is
located in the basement of the building. The elevator goes very fast and you should take your pictures very fast,
because you're not allowed to stay very long long on the bridge. After 5 or 10 minutes you're
ordered to go down.
It's certainly worth a visit. You shouldn't miss it.
by courtesy of Colinda van Wanrooij
You can see the Petronas Towers almost everywhere in the city. And when you're
staying in the Golden Triangle, you can go walking.
At the feet of the Petronas Towers is the trendy
shopping mall "Suria KLCC" located. The shopping mall has very
expensive shops like: Armani, Chopard, Hermes, Gucci.
In these Petronas Towers are also a cinema, concert hall, conference hall an
some prayer room for the Muslim.
At the highest level (6) is a small museum of the Petronas Oil Company, of which
Malaysia is very proud.
When you're renting a car in Malaysia, you will see a lot of petroll stations of
the Petronas Oil Company.
The building was designed by Cesar
Pelli and has by its rounding some Islamic influences.
There are 88 floors and for building the Towers the used a lot of steel and
glass. This skyscraper has 32.000 windows en mostly used as a office building.
Number of storeys
88
Overall height
452 metres above
street level
Design/Architecture
Cesar Pelli &
Associates (USA) in association with KLCC architects
Location of the
sky bridge
Levels 41 and 42
Length of the
sky bridge
58.4 metres
Heigth of the
sky bridge
170 metres
Vertical
transportation
29 double-deck
high speed passenger lifts in each tower
Number of
escalators
10 in each tower
Stainless steel
cladding
65,000 sq metres
Vision glass
77,000 sq metres
Concrete
160,00 cubic
metres in the superstructures
Steel
36,910 tonnes of
beams, trusses and reinforcement
Foundation
4.5 metres thick
raft containing 13,200 cubic metres of grade 60 reinforced concrete,
weighing approximately 32,550 tonnes under each tower, supported by 104
barette piles varying from 60 to 115 metres in length
Total built-up
area
341,760 sq
metres
Date of
completion
1997
There's a competition, which country has the highest building?
One thing is clear: The Petronas Towers are the most beautiful. .
Other tall buildings are ( the highest at the
top):
Bamboo Shoot - Taipeh (Taiwan) (508 metres)
CN-Towers - Toronto
World Financial Center - Shanghai
Petronas Towers - Kuala Lumpur
Sears Tower - Chicago (Illenois)
Jin Mao Building - Shanghai
