Re: article: Asia's Architects Plan for a people boom

From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 07:45:32 MST


From: "Bill Douglass" <douglassbill@hotmail.com>

>Also, it's exciting to know about the four planned projects which
>will stand taller than the current skyscraper world champion, the
>Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. I visited the Petronas Towers in
>August; what a stunningly attractive set of buildings.

Actually the Petronas Towers were officially demoted as the "Worlds
Tallest building" some time ago. How it ever got the title is
beyond common sense since even from the observation deck (105) of
the Sears tower (110 stories) you'd be looking more than 20 stories
DOWN on the towers.....

Brian

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