• DATE 1998
• STYLE Postmodernism
• MATERIALS Reinforced concrete and stainless steel cladding
• ARCHITECT Cesar Pelli, Thornton-Tomasetti (engineers)
• The world's tallest twin towers

The turn of the century and the turn of the millennium were marked in architecture by a new round of the high-altitude race. grew up in cities that had never even thought about building towers. The height parameters of buildings, which just yesterday seemed literally sky-high, quickly lost their aura of exclusivity, turning into the most ordinary technical characteristics. The list of the tallest buildings of our time was updated several times a year.

Against this background, a particularly notable achievement is the creation of skyscrapers, which not only at a certain time topped the world ranking of the tallest buildings, but were among the most popular and memorable structures of the entire decade. Any architect has the right to be proud of such a spectacular structure! Of course, we are talking about the famous Malaysian complex - the Petronas Towers.

Skyscrapers are a modern technological marvel, and at the same time, they are “undoubtedly symbols of wealth and power. They first appeared at the end of the 19th century, in large American cities such as New York and Chicago. There the new wealth of industry and trade reached its peak.

The most famous skyscraper is (1931), it remained the tallest in the world for more than 40 years, but then the record passed to another American building, (1974). And for another 20 years no one could surpass the new height.

Tall Twin Towers

The project that finally broke the Sears Tower's record wasn't just another skyscraper in Atlanta or Dallas—it was a pair of amazing towers in Malaysia. With the emergence of the “economic tigers” in Asia, a new focus of money and power emerged. The inevitable result was that unimaginable buildings began to appear in China, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Once upon a time, grandiose skyscrapers were a purely Western (primarily American) phenomenon. Now they have grown up across Asia as symbols of national pride and economic prosperity.

The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur are a clear expression of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad's ambition to make Malaysia an industrialized economy and a leader in the region by 2020. The towers stand in the midst of a massive redevelopment of Kuala Lumpur, around which remnants of the colonial past are constantly being demolished and an entirely new future for Malaysia is being created.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad proposed building the towers in an “Islamic” style. Therefore, two eight-pointed stars were taken as the basis for the plan of symmetrical buildings, and Pelli added semicircular protrusions for stability. As a result, the bright stepped completion of both skyscrapers turned out to be surprisingly multicultural.

The creator of the towers is the American architect Caesar Pelli, he worked with the engineering company Thornton-Tomasetti. One of the towers houses the headquarters of the government oil company Petroleum Nasional Berhad. In total, the towers contain 750,000 m2 of office space, 140,000 m2 of retail and entertainment halls, and 4,500 parking spaces. There is also a conference center, an oil museum and a concert hall. One of the requirements for the project was to provide a place where Muslim office workers could perform the obligatory prayers twice a day.

The towers are built primarily from reinforced concrete, which is unusual for such tall buildings. True, the concrete was specially developed for this project. They rest on many piles driven into the ground, into the soft stone below, for as much as 93 meters. Such an unusually deep foundation can support the weight of huge towers, 452 meters high.

The competition design for office buildings with a height of 451.9 meters for an oil and gas company was accepted in 1992. Construction of the 88-story towers began in 1994, and the official opening took place in 1999. The construction was carried out by two competing companies, and in the process they solved many unique technical and engineering problems.

For example, during geological surveys it turned out that the site allocated for the towers is located on heterogeneous areas of soil, which would lead to subsidence of parts of the building. As a result, the buildings were completely moved 60 meters and piles were driven to a depth of more than 100 meters into soft soil. Today it is one of the largest concrete foundations in the world.

A person of Western culture, brought up on the aesthetics of the famous American skyscrapers of the first third of the 20th century, will see in the nature of the completions of the Petronas Tower references to the hierarchical spiers of Art Deco architecture, which have become relevant again in high-rise architecture thanks to the spread of postmodernism ideas. Adherents of Muslim traditions read the multi-tiered stepped finish with alternating rounded and rectangular protrusions as a modern reflection of Islamic decorativeism.

An attentive observer may also see references to ancient Hindu and Buddhist architecture in this structure. And a comparison with neighboring Indonesian monuments (in particular, with the ancient cult complex of Prambanan on the island of Java) naturally suggests itself. In addition to architectural associations, another one arises - with the form of ceremonial headdresses of the rulers of South Asia. So the variety of veiled cultural codes, when everyone can find something familiar and familiar in this building, explains its high popularity among representatives of various nations.

The Petronas Twin Towers are a rare example of a complex that has caused a huge number of imitations and replicas all over the world (we must also take into account that they were not built at the dawn of the development of high-rise buildings, but quite recently). Even during the construction process in 1996, the complex was recognized as the tallest twin office complex, and years later it remains the most famous pair of all high-rise twins in the world.

After the success of Petronas, twin high-rise towers were at the peak of fashion. Many famous architects began to offer customers similar

compositional solutions. At the same time, Cesar Pelli himself never returned to this idea in his work, preferring to develop other imaginative solutions, including for high-rise buildings.

Petronas Towers is extremely high-tech, it is literally crammed with technical innovations and the latest materials. The total area of ​​all premises of the complex is colossal: 213,750 m2 could fit 48 football fields! And the buildings themselves with the adjacent site occupy 40 hectares of urban territory.

The basis of the design of the twin high-rise complex is not light steel, as one might assume due to the delicate outlines of the facades. A significant limitation that influenced the choice of the main material for the load-bearing structures was the requirement to build a skyscraper from Malaysian building materials.

Local industry could not produce high-quality light steel in the required time frame. Therefore, Petronas developed a special elastic concrete with the addition of quartz, comparable in strength to steel. During the construction process, due to poor-quality concrete, the finished floor had to be dismantled and rebuilt. As a result, the skyscraper turned out to be twice as heavy as similar steel ones.

The structural frame and internal spaces are adjusted down to the millimeter. There is no central core in the towers, and in the elevator shafts, for the sake of efficient use of space, two two-story elevators travel, each stopping on its own floors - even or odd. In addition, since earthquake resistance is an important factor in construction throughout the region, there were also increased requirements for Petronas towers in this area.

The structure of skyscrapers is such that they will stand even if they lose the support of three of the sixteen load-bearing columns. The connecting openwork bridge on giant ball bearings also serves as additional insurance: it does not allow the towers to sway too much and deviate from each other, giving the structure greater rigidity and stability. In addition, this air passage is another escape route between the upper parts of the complex in case of fire.

The mentioned openwork bridge connecting the towers is in fact extremely heavy: its weight is as much as 452.6 tons. This part of the complex was specially manufactured in South Korea and disassembled (493 separate fragments) transported to Malaysia in the summer of 1995. The assembly of the structure was carried out at the foot of the towers, and the installation with the main volumes was already at a height.

The building design was tailored from the outset to the needs of state oil corporation Petronas, and the headquarters ended up costing the client and major investor 2 billion ringgit ($800 million). But in addition to a convenient and status office, the company became the owner of one of the most recognizable buildings of the decade, and Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia as a whole acquired a new main urban landmark, a truly iconic monument of modern architecture, and even the image of an advanced and progressive power in the region in the field of modern architecture and engineering and construction - a bonus that cannot be calculated in monetary terms.

The building has a museum, exhibition halls and an art gallery, and you have to spend the whole day visiting the observation decks, since the queue forms early in the morning, and by 6 am registration for the opportunity to get into this queue stops.

Windy Heights

Besides the strength of the buildings, there is another big problem for such skyscrapers. In order for people to easily get to the upper floors, many elevators are needed; elevators take up a lot of space on the floors. So two 44-story “extensions” near the towers are needed so that the buildings have enough space for offices.

Between the towers there is a two-story “sky bridge” 48 meters long and weighing 738 tons. At a height of about half the towers, it allows you to move from one elevator lobby to another. It is also an emergency exit for amazingly tall buildings. Such buildings can sway from strong winds, so the “sky bridge” is attached to the buildings with movable fasteners; it is 138 m long and can move up to 30 centimeters on each side. The skybridge towers appear to be huge gateways to a renewed city that is rapidly growing around them.

The Petronas Towers are no longer considered the tallest building in the world. In 2004, the record was passed to the Taiwanese skyscraper Taipei 101. In addition, giant buildings are now being built in South Korea and Shanghai. Whether these buildings are worth the enormous money, resources and energy that are invested in them is a political question, and there is still no answer to it.

Mahathir proved that Asians can achieve development without democracy and prosperity without political rights. Historically, skyscrapers have been symbols of Western capitalism and the rapid energy of development. Whether they can serve as symbols of something in completely different cultures remains to be seen. But they are already making an impression, reminding us of the desire for change that has made Asia strong and brought it into the 21st century.

We can see evidence of the popularity of Pelli's creation in popular culture. In the film "Entrapment" starring Sean Connary and Catherine Zeta-Jones, much of the intriguing story about the largest electronic bank theft on the eve of the new year 2000 unfolds in the unusual spaces of a pair of Malaysian skyscrapers. The most exciting sequence was filmed on the suspended structures and festive illumination of the bridge connecting the upper parts of the towers. The deft escape of the film's heroes ends with a parachute jump in an elevator shaft, which would have been impossible in a less technically advanced and smaller structure.

And if in digital terms the Malaysian twins gradually have more and more competitors, then in terms of figurative and artistic level this work can safely be considered one of the true pinnacles of Cesar Pelli’s work.

Skyscrapers are an American invention. However, amid the economic boom, the construction of multi-story buildings is increasing. A huge 88-story skyscraper with a height of 452 meters is located in the capital of Malaysia - these are the famous twin towers Petronas Towers, which for a long time were considered the largest skyscraper on our planet. Petronas Twin Towers makes a great impression, which has become a “calling card”. Rising above the city, the towers symbolize the current one, striving to join the number.

The most respectable center of Malaysia was chosen for the construction of the skyscraper - the so-called Golden Triangle shopping center. This area is famous for skyscrapers, shopping malls, luxury hotels and chic restaurants.

The construction of Petronas Towers cost the main customer, the state corporation Petronas, $800 million. Some of the costs were covered by other Malaysian firms, which distributed office space in two skyscrapers among themselves.

The towers were erected in record time - in less than three years (they were founded in May 1993, and officially opened on May 8, 1998). In January 2000, all office space was already occupied.

One tower was built by a consortium consisting of Hazama and Mitsubishi, as well as the American JA Jones Construction. The second tower is a consortium of South Korean companies Samsung Engineering and Construction, Kok Engineering and Construction and one Malaysian company.

The grandiose structure belongs to the National Oil Corporation, part of the project to create the “City of the New Millennium” in Malaysia. Its whimsical “double” design is said to be inspired by the Grand Arch of the La Défense in Paris. The towers resemble two rockets shot up, connected by a two-story bridge lying 160 meters from the ground.

The walls to the very top are made of tempered durable glass and thin metal lintels. During the day, the towers shimmer in the sun like a huge diamond set in silver. At night, they soar above the city, rushing like luminous rockets into the swampy blackness of the sky. Their needle-spires are visible tens of kilometers beyond city boundaries.

Each tower rests on a multi-meter thick slab of high-strength concrete with a volume of 13,200 cubic meters and weighing more than 32 thousand tons, which in turn rests on 104 piles going to a depth of 60 to 115 meters. The frame of the towers required 160 thousand cubic meters of special strength concrete and 37 thousand tons of steel, which allows the towers to withstand tremors of up to 7 points and a speed of 45 m/second, although in Malaysia to date no significant and.

Both towers are connected by a covered walkway in the form of a bridge. The building is crowned with 73.5-meter turrets. These towers were completed after it became clear that the new skyscraper was only 65 meters inferior to the tallest building in Chicago at that time. After the towers were built on, the Petronas Towers became the tallest. Until recently, this title belonged to a building in Malaysia, although in 2004 the record was broken by the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The area of ​​all premises of the building is 213.75 thousand square meters (that’s 48 football fields). The towers represent 452 meters of glass and steel. The towers themselves occupy 40 hectares. Petronas Towers houses offices, exhibition and conference halls, an art gallery, a theater, a concert hall where the Malaysian symphony orchestra performs, restaurants, as well as the main shopping center in Kuala Lumpur. In the silhouette of the sharply sharpened towers, with all the rampant high-tech, hints of national architecture are felt. Inside the towers everything is even more dynamic. Huge atriums are topped with steel structures a la a space station, glass elevators glide past glass escalators.

The upper floors of the buildings are occupied by offices. On the lower floors there is a six-story shopping center, restaurants, cinemas, a huge concert hall of the Malayan Philharmonic Orchestra, galleries, museums, exhibition halls and even a science center with virtual attractions for children and adults.

But the main attraction is the skyscraper itself. At the 41st floor level there is a lintel, a glass bridge, between the towers. It is open to the public from 10:00 am to 12:45 pm and from 3:00 pm to 4:45 pm and admission is free. From the bridge you have an excellent view of the entire city of Kuala Lumpur.

Reach the clouds with your hands, feel like a bird soaring high above a busy metropolis - all this can be done by visiting the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. These two grandiose structures are incredibly beautiful: the graceful domes of the giants rest against the bright blue Malaysian sky, everything around immediately becomes small and insignificant. All this is caused by the unprecedented admiration that arises when looking at the city from the observation deck of the beautiful twin towers.

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Kuala Lumpur is a city that is famous not only in Malaysia itself, but throughout the world. The name of this place for those who have not been here immediately evokes vivid associations in which vines hang from small houses and do not allow them to move calmly, and friendly koalas look curiously at people from the trees. However, Kuala Lumpur is far from these fantasies. In reality, this is the city that is famous for its beautiful and modern skyscrapers. The most famous and tallest among them are the Petronas Towers.

Malaysia is hiding - read more in our article.

Once upon a time there lived the directors of a large state-owned oil and gas company, Petronas. Everything was fine with them: their income was considerable, and they had a desire to develop, but they did not have an office that would meet the requirements and status of the company. Around the same time, many large cities took part in the so-called “race for skyscrapers”: who will have a taller, more beautiful and more practical skyscraper. The leader in this competition at that time (late 90s) was the Willis Tower skyscraper in Chicago.

Without thinking twice, Petronas carried out the move that won the championship from the United States: it built the twin towers! Yes, such that they surpassed all their predecessors in both height and appearance. Without thinking twice, the name of the skyscrapers was given in honor of the company that created it: it sounds beautiful and is good PR.

Architecture

In Malaysia, the predominant religion is Islam. The architects came up with an interesting move in order not to deviate far from their traditions, even when building such a significant structure, which was destined to become the decoration of the entire city. An eight-pointed star (a symbol of Islam) was taken as the basis for the building plan, and the domes that top the skyscrapers resemble mosques in their outlines. This pleased the city authorities and only benefited the giant twins. Today these are the most urban skyscrapers in the Muslim style.

Construction

The Malaysian Twin Towers are skyscrapers with the deepest concrete foundations in the entire world! 100 meters, this is the depth that took a little more than three years to create. Throughout this time, every 90 seconds, special trucks alternately poured the foundation of the towers, which consisted of especially high-strength and elastic concrete. This helped prevent soil subsidence and made skyscrapers completely protected from hurricanes, which sometimes do not bypass Malaysia.

Another interesting thing is the construction of a glass bridge that connects the towers to each other at a height of 41-42 floors. This bridge is not only practical, but also symbolic. On the one hand, thanks to it, people can move freely between skyscrapers. On the other hand, it is a symbol of unification and closeness to heaven; it is not for nothing that the bridge has its own name - Skybridge. It was designed in South Korea, after which it was delivered to Kuala Lumpur in 500 separate parts. Here it was reassembled into its original form and taken upstairs, where it was installed at a great height within 3 days.

The Twin Towers appeared on Russian movie screens in the film “Apocalypse Code.” According to the script, the heroine of Anastasia Zavorotnyuk jumped from one of the towers with a parachute. The stunt was performed by the actress' stunt double. The bad luck was that during the jump, a power line was hit and torn down, which is why the whole block was left without power for some time.

Even earlier, skyscrapers appeared in the film “The Trap,” whose main characters dashingly flew from one building to another on peculiar “ropes.”

In 1997, the famous French climber "Spiderman" tried to conquer one of the towers by climbing along it. However, he only managed to reach the 60th floor, where the police arrested him. The unpleasant incident did not stop the daredevil, and 10 years later he tried to repeat his ascent, choosing the second tower. However, ironically, the police caught up with him, and again on the same floor.

The gaming industry also couldn't ignore famous skyscrapers: the Petronas Towers appear in three levels of the popular computer game Hitman 2: The Silent Assassin.

Read a selection of the tallest skyscrapers in the world on our website.

Petronas Towers in numbers

451.9 m - this is the height of each of the Petronas buildings.

88 floors - this is the height of the first and second towers.

The 6th place in the world is occupied by the Twin Towers among the tallest buildings in the world.

16,000 windows are in these towers.

10,000 people constantly wash and clean the windows of the towers.

30 days is how long it takes to completely clean all the windows of the Twin Towers.

$800 million was spent on the construction of the Petronas Towers.

2-story elevators serve these buildings. One floor of the elevator stops on the even floor, while the second stops on the odd floor, respectively.

3,000 m2 - this is how much concrete was needed to create a high-strength foundation for skyscrapers

213,750 m2, or 48 hectares - this is the total area of ​​the entire territory of the twin towers. To make it clearer: this figure is equal in quantity to 48 football fields.

650,000 people weekly visit various stores that are located in the shopping center of one of the skyscrapers.

Almost 5,500 cars can be accommodated in the underground car park below the towers.

Despite the fact that the Petronas Towers have lost the championship in the fight for the tallest skyscrapers in the world, their beauty and grandeur continue to captivate both designers and ordinary tourists from all over the world. An amazing combination of Muslim traditions and the most reliable construction technologies made the twin skyscrapers a miracle of modern architecture.

Address: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Start of construction: 1992
Completion of construction: 1998
Height: 451.9 m
Number of floors: 88
Coordinates: 3°09"28.2"N 101°42"42.6"E

Content:

Short story

In 1998, in the capital of Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - the Petronas Twin Towers proudly rose to the sky. The combination of colorful Islamic architecture and truly grandiose dimensions makes these skyscrapers one of the most beautiful urban buildings in the world.

View of the Petronas Towers from Kuala Lumpur Central Park

Each of the towers has 88 floors, and this is no coincidence. The Chinese consider eight to be a lucky number. Since 1996, that is, two years before completion of construction, the Petronas towers (452 ​​meters each) were the tallest buildings on the planet, but already in 2004 their record was broken by the Taiwanese skyscraper Taipei 101. The Petronas oil company is the “financial parent” of the Petronas Towers.

The history of the Petronas Towers dates back to the early 1990s, when the state-owned oil and gas corporation Petronas, a giant comparable to Russia's Gazprom, needed a huge business center. Just at this time, the city authorities, driven to despair by the constant accumulation of traffic jams on the road to the hippodrome, forced the equestrian club to change its location. The racecourse was moved to the suburbs, creating a 40-hectare space in the heart of densely built-up Kuala Lumpur. At first they planned to build a park here, which would become the “lungs” of the metropolis.

But the costs of maintaining a park of such a huge size amounted to a tidy sum, and the city authorities came to the conclusion that it would be more expedient to build a business center and fill the adjacent territory with green spaces. Almost simultaneously with the oil and gas corporation Petronas, the company MIA Holdings, headed by Malaysian tycoon Anand Krishan, decided to contribute to the project.

Mr. Krishan organized a large-scale PR campaign for future skyscrapers, promising the residents of Kuala Lumpur not only office buildings, but also shops, a family entertainment complex, a new mosque, and all this - framed by a park replete with exotic flora. Eight architectural firms took part in the competition for the best design of the Petronas Towers. The winner was an American of Argentine origin, Cesar Pelli, who by that time had created many original buildings, including the World Financial Center in New York.

Petronas Towers - Muslim-style skyscrapers

The towers were designed taking into account the national characteristics of the country and in plan they represent two eight-pointed stars - one of the motifs of Muslim symbolism. The buildings are topped with domes, the contours of which are similar to those of mosques. The foundation was laid at a depth that boggles the imagination - 100 meters. This is the deepest concrete foundation in the world. They built it like this: over three days, every 90 seconds, trucks filled the base with high-strength, elastic concrete. To ensure the reliability of the design, the skyscraper model was blown in all directions in a wind tunnel. The experiment confirmed that Petronas is not afraid of even Malaysian hurricanes. The cost of construction, which lasted 6 years, amounted to 1.6 billion US dollars. $800 million was received from Petronas, and the rest of the costs were shared among Malaysian firms, whose offices are also located in the skyscrapers.

Sky bridge between towers

Petronas Towers - shopping and business center

One of the towers houses the headquarters of Petronas, and the other houses the offices of subsidiaries of the oil company and transnational corporations such as Microsoft, IBM, etc. The towers have a concert hall with 840 seats, an art gallery, and a conference. -center and mosque. On one of the floors of the six-level shopping center there is a Petronas Gasoline Museum, where children are explained in an accessible form why oil and gas are important to the Malaysian economy. Each building has 29 two-story elevators. They are very spacious - the cabin can accommodate 52 people. In just 90 seconds, a high-speed elevator will take passengers to the top floor. At the height between the 41st and 42nd floors, the Petronas Towers are connected by a glass walkway - the “Sky Bridge”.. It is not only an observation deck, but also a means of safety - in the event of a fire, you can cross the bridge from one tower to another. By the way, tycoon Anand Krishan kept his promise: around the skyscrapers there is a park with running and walking paths, children's playgrounds, swimming pools and a fountain with a light show.

Petronas Towers illuminated at night

Spider-Man on top of Petronas

The Petronas Towers attract fans of extreme sports. In 2009, climber Alain Robert, nicknamed “Spider-Man,” made his dream come true by climbing one of the Petronas towers without technical equipment or insurance. He conquered Malaysia's tallest skyscraper only on his third attempt - in 1997 and 2007, Spider-Man's climbs were interrupted by the police.

The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur () are perhaps as much a symbol of Malaysia as the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square of Russia. Initially, we planned to devote only a couple of hours to the famous twins, but somehow unnoticed we spent the whole day there. So what were we doing there?!

Firstly, we admired the famous towers. We have written more than once that we like to find the very best, and Petronas is just from this series.

Judge for yourself: height 451.9 meters. The ninth tallest building in Asia, and until 2003 the tallest building in general. Until last year it was 8th, but another Chinese skyscraper has displaced the Petronas. By the way, China has the largest number - 43 buildings with a height of more than 300 meters. Tenth tallest building in the world. The tallest twin towers in the world today. Such an impressive list of “coolness”.

Next to the towers there is a small cozy park with an artificial lake, playgrounds, swimming pools, jogging paths and marked points from which the most interesting view of Petronas opens.

The twins in the area of ​​the 41st-42nd floors are connected by a bridge SkyBridge, which, if desired, can be climbed. Entrance fee is 85 ringgit(approximately 1360 rubles). Opening hours from 9:00 before 21:00 daily except Monday. On Fridays the bridge is closed from 13:00 before 14:30 because of prayer (Malaysia is a Muslim country).

Tickets at the box office start selling from 8:30 , but they can be more conveniently purchased in advance at www.petronastwintowers.com.my. But even with online tickets to get to SkyBridge It will be very problematic - the queue is gigantic, although perfectly organized.

We thought that we were not at all eager to waste time on this and decided to devote it to the huge shopping center in Petronas. This is one of the coolest shopping centers in Kuala Lumpur. And after almost a year spent in Indian and Nepalese towns and villages, he makes a simply stunning impression. Food courts, restaurants, shops, a scientific and entertainment complex - we were sucked in ☺.

Despite all the pretentiousness, most of the stores turned out to be more than accessible. And prices in some of them are lower than in Russia or Thailand. Shoooping! ☺

It's amazing how different the impression the towers make in daylight and evening light is. During the day they seem simply tall, and at night they seem monumental and majestic.

Seeing the Petronas Towers in the evening light is a must do in Kuala Lumpur.

And besides this, in the evening you can watch a rather colorful, but short light and sound show of fountains. It starts in the area 20:00 , but there is no more accurate information, as soon as it gets dark enough, that’s when it begins ☺.

Many locals come to the fountains with food and have impromptu picnics to the accompaniment of the fountain’s romantic melodies.

And finally, some additional information about how to go and what else you can do in the Petronosov area.

How to get to the Petronas Twin Towers: take the metro to the station KLCC automatic line Kelana Jaya. You can also get to the station Ruja Chulan monorail line, then about 700 meters along the covered galleries and you are there. Read more about transport in Kuala Lumpur.

Other things to do in the KLCC area:

1. Visit one of the coolest aquariums Aquaria KLCC, if not all over the world, then in Asia for sure.

• Ticket price for adults: 64 ringgit(about 1025 rubles);
• Operating mode: from 10:00 before 20:00 , the last visitors are launched into 19:00 ;
• Website: aquariaklcc.com

2. In the evening, when Petronas gets bored, take a walk to the street Jalan P. Ramlee and have a good time hanging out in local bars and clubs, because Kula Lumpur is a city that never sleeps ☺.