Petronas Towers Skybridge Wobble?

Engineers put a tuned mass damper up near the top of each tower, around level 87, and that's doing most of the work to keep the whole structure stable. The Skybridge itself sits on that bearing system so it can slide a few centimetres, which is why it feels loose underfoot rather than properly shaky. On a normal day the total sway at the top is roughly 20 to 30 centimetres, which sounds a lot until you remember the towers are 452 metres tall. If you want the calmest crossing, aim for a weekday morning slot when they open at 9am, the afternoon gusts off the KLCC park can be noticeably worse.

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yeah the bridge does move, its designed to. the towers are built to flex in the wind, and the double decker skybridge is basically a tuned mass damper connecting the two towers, so it absorbs some of the sway. on a normal day the movement is tiny, a few cm at most, but during a bad storm you can def feel it. the elevator ride up is what got me more than the bridge itself, that thing shoots up 41 floors in like 10 seconds and your ears pop hard.

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have u been up KL tower yet? weirdly that one feels way more solid even tho its older, cos its a concrete shaft vs the towers being mostly steel & glass. if the boat feeling bugged u, the atmosphere 300 at KL tower might sit better, plus u get the petronas in ur photos instead of being inside them. go around 7pm so u catch both the sunset & the fountain show from above

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the back area past the hornbill enclosure? i've heard keepers call it the quarantine row. new arrivals & sick birds go there first before they get moved into the main aviaries, so the "sad" look is often just stress from transport or treatment. some of those rare ones are on loan from perhilitan for rehab, they rotate out once they're healthy. if u go on a weekday morning you can sometimes catch a keeper near the gate, they'll usually tell u what's in there if u ask nicely

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tbh that hidden section is prob the old breeding block, not quarantine. they used to run captive breeding programs there for hornbills and some pheasant species back in the 2000s, and when funding dried up they just kind of left the structure standing. the birds u saw are likely the last few residents of that program, too imprinted to release so they stay put. if u want the real story ask for the head keeper at the main office, the front desk staff usually don't know much about it.

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oh that area near the back ponds right? i think those are confiscated birds from the wildlife dept, smuggled ones that got seized at klia. they keep em there quietly cos some are protected species and they dont wanna draw attention. not a retirement home, more like a holding spot.

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