The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat decided in nineteen ninety-six to include the height of the spires of the Petronas Towers.

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By the nineteen thirties, some of the possible record-making skyscrapers were being designed with spires.

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Spires are the thin, pointy tops of buildings.

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