The Petronal Twin Towers was declared by the Council on Tall Buildings as the world’s highest on the 15th of April 1996. This meant the honor had crossed continents. Although it was not really the intention of the developers of the project, the national oil company, Petronas, and the Malaysian government along with a group of private investors, to usurp the position formerly held by the Sears Tower in Chicago, they did intend to build a monument that would declare to the world that Kuala Lumpur “has finally arrived” as a cultural and commercial capital.