<p class="title">Cesar Pelli, the Argentine architect and creator of Malaysia's Petronas Towers and New York's One World Financial Center, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of the great architect Cesar Pelli," Juan Manzur, governor of Pelli's home state of Tucuman, said on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After graduating from the University of Tucuman, Pelli left for the US in 1952, where he studied on a scholarship.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was dean of Yale's architecture faculty from 1977 to 1984, and counted the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal among his many accolades.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His most high-profile achievement was the Petronas Towers in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur- a 452-metre high structure that was the world's tallest building when it was completed in 1998.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pelli's legacy also includes dozens of theaters and cultural centers across the world, and he oversaw the expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1984.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also designed the International Financial Centre that towers over Hong Kong's waterfront and the Gran Torre Santiago in Chile.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His last project was the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, a transport hub that lies beneath the city's tallest skyscraper and blends green space and shopping areas.</p>
<p class="title">Cesar Pelli, the Argentine architect and creator of Malaysia's Petronas Towers and New York's One World Financial Center, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of the great architect Cesar Pelli," Juan Manzur, governor of Pelli's home state of Tucuman, said on Twitter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">After graduating from the University of Tucuman, Pelli left for the US in 1952, where he studied on a scholarship.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was dean of Yale's architecture faculty from 1977 to 1984, and counted the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal among his many accolades.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His most high-profile achievement was the Petronas Towers in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur- a 452-metre high structure that was the world's tallest building when it was completed in 1998.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pelli's legacy also includes dozens of theaters and cultural centers across the world, and he oversaw the expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1984.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also designed the International Financial Centre that towers over Hong Kong's waterfront and the Gran Torre Santiago in Chile.</p>.<p class="bodytext">His last project was the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, a transport hub that lies beneath the city's tallest skyscraper and blends green space and shopping areas.</p>