page_title: 1990s
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: 1990s / Popular culture / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Petronas Twin Towers in its beautiful lights
context_page_description: The 1990s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999.
  Culturally, the 1990s are characterized by the rise of multiculturalism and alternative media, which continued into the 2000s and 2010s. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then-new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web.
  A combination of factors, including the continued mass mobilization of capital markets through neo-liberalism, the thawing and end of the decades-long Cold War, the beginning of the widespread proliferation of new media such as the Internet from the middle of the decade onwards, increasing skepticism towards government, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a realignment and reconsolidation of economic and political power across the world and within countries. The dot-com bubble of 1997–2000 brought wealth to some entrepreneurs before its crash between 2000 and 2001.
context_section_description: The Petronas Twin Towers became two of the tallest man-made structures ever built after they officially opened on 31 August 1999.
caption: The Petronas Twin Towers were the world's tallest buildings when completed in 1999.
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