The eighty-eight-story, 451.9-meter-tall Petronas twin towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, became the tallest buildings in the world when completed in 1996, replacing Chicago's Sears Tower, which had held the record since 1974. Designed by the...

The Petronas Twin Towers (also known as the Petronas Towers or Twin Towers), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are the world's tallest twin buildings. They were the world's tallest buildings from 1998 to 2004 if measured from the level of the main entrance to...

4517 Petronas Twin Towers -- The Architecture of High Construction, by Cesar Pelli and Michael J. Crosbie. Wiley-Academy, London 2005 [our copy from John Wiley and Sons, PO Box 174, North Ryde 1670]. 128 pp., ill. Pbk. Price: $A 55.95. This...

15 September 2001. After the smoke has cleared, the dust has settled down and the initial fury blown over, humankind will wake up and realize a new fact: there is no safe place on earth. A handful of suicide-bombers has brought the United...

Malaysian police detained 53 activists Saturday in a crackdown on a planned opposition-led protest over inflation ahead of national elections expected within weeks.Opposition groups wanted to hold the rally Saturday outside Kuala Lumpur's landmark Petronas Twin Towers to demand that the government forego a likely...