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[Momo1435]

Why are there still so many projects that I have seen earlier but that I totally forgotten about. Like this tower that is part of a bigger redevelopment next to Futako-Tamagawa Station in Setagaya. It includes a 150m high tower and 2 102m high towers that were completed earlier this year plus a new mall next to the station. The last tower in the project should go U/C next month, it's a 137m high mixed use tower and a multi functional low rise complex complex around it.

TOKYO 東京 | Futako-Tamagawa East 2nd District Redevelopment 二子玉川東第二地区第一種市街地再開発 | 137m | plan



http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/INET/OSHIR...6/20k6t100.htm

height: 137m
floors: 31
function: office, hotel
status: plan
start: 01/2011
complete: 04/2014

location:
Tamagawa (1), Setagaya-ku

http://goo.gl/maps/vji2

Hopefully I can make a thread next month.

[Momo1435]

And now were busy

TOKYO 東京 | Shibaura Water Reclamation Center Reconstruction Project 芝浦水再生センター再構築に伴う上部利用事業 | 153m | plan



This tower will come on one of the corners of the Shibaura Water Reclamation Center close to Shinagawa Station. It should have gone U/C this year, but there hasn't been any sign construction going on.

height: 153.35m
floors: 32
function: office
status: plan
start: 2010 (it hasn't started)
complete: 2014

Location:
Konan (1), Minato-ku




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TOKYO 東京 | Takanawa 2-chome project 高輪二丁目計画 | 98.5m | plan

no render

height: 98.5m
floors: 20
function:
status: plan
start: 04/2011
complete: 09/2013

(仮称)高輪二丁目計画
20階 高さ98.5m(最高も98.5m) 2011年4月着工、2013年9月完成

Location:
Takanawa (2), Minato-ku

[Momo1435]

I already posted the next project in the old Tokyo projects and construction thread, but some new important has come up. There was only more detailed info for the office tower, but now the details for the residential tower have been announced. And that tower will also be 150m high, it means another 150m + tower that will go U/C next year.


TOKYO 東京 | Iidabashi Station West Entrance District Redevelopment 飯田橋駅西口地区第一種市街地再開発事業 | 150m & 150m | Demo



http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/INET/OSHIR...4/20k49200.htm

Another redevelopment that just got it's final approval, the demolition work already starts next month. The plan next to Iidabashi station on the Sobu-Chuo line close to the Tokyo Dome consists of a 150m high office tower and 3 other buildings including a residential tower (no info).

Office tower:

height: 150m
floors: 30
function: office
start: 04/2011
complete: 03/2015

Residential tower:

height: 150m
floors: 40
function: residential
start: 04/2011
complete: 03/2015

Location:
Fujimi (2), Chioda-ku


Helicopter shot


www.building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/helicopter/

[Momo1435]

The area around Osaka Station is undergoing a huge redevelopment with several new buildings, it's a long term project that has it's up and downs. Recently it was announced that the redevelopment of 2 famous department stores that should have started this year is now scheduled to start in 2013.

The Shin-Hankyu Building & Hanshin Department Store will be demolished in 2013 for rebuilding, it will be done together as 1 big project. The masterplan will probably be announced in 2011. They will aim to rebuilt new department stores with office towers on top. The current problems on Osaka's office market should gradually turn around, the area around Osaka station should come out as a top office location with all the new office buildings that are recently completed or U/C right now.

News article:
http://www.nikkei.com/news/local/art...F2F2F2F2F2F2F2

The Shin-Hankyu Building & Hanshin Department Store

image hosted on flickr

100507_115 by GORIMON, on Flickr

So next year we will know if there will be a new solid project that will start when the Station North District is done.


As for 2010, I compiled a list of all the completed 100m+ buildings in Japan this year. I will make a special thread for those, maybe I'll add a poll to see which one is the best of them according to you. The problem is that I can't add all 46 towers to the post, so I have to make a pre-selection based on my own tastes.

[Momo1435]

Since it has become unclear if the Loop Line 2 - Zone III will go over 250m it's also unclear if it will beat the Tokyo Midtown Tower as the tallest building in Tokyo. But today a new project has been announced that will be (approximately) 250m tall. And no guesses where this tower will come, it can only be in Roppongi nowadays. But it's not one of the redevelopments that is visibly going on for quite some time now.


TOKYO 東京 | Roppongi 3-chome East District Redevelopment 六本木三丁目東地区再開発 | 250m | plan

no render

The new tower will replace a couple of older buildings, the tallest is the Japan IBM Head Office Building (87.4m, 1991) and also the Roppongi Prince Hotel that closed in 2006 and was sold to Sumitomo Real Estate. It's the block of land next to the Izumi Garden Tower and behind the Samsung tower.

Planning permission should come in 2011, starting the construction in 2012.

Also included in the redevelopment is a residential tower with 27 floors, no height info for this one but it could be 100m+


Main Tower stats:

height: 250m
floors: 42
function: office
status: plan
start: 2012
complete: 2015

Location:
Roppongi (3), minato-ku

http://goo.gl/maps/UNP6

Helicopter:


http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/helicopter/

The was in a newspaper and not online, more info on the usual blog:
http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com...post-4c03.html

Edit:

scan of newspaper article with LQ render

[Momo1435]

And if that wasn't enough

TOKYO 東京 | Akasaka 1-chome Redevelopment 赤坂一丁目地区再開発 | 220m | plan




Just a couple of blocks away from the project above another new skyscraper will be built starting and finishing the construction in the same year.

height: 220m
floors: 43
function: office / residential
status: plan
start: 2012
complete: 2015

location:
Akasaka (1), Minato-ku

http://goo.gl/maps/Fymd


We won't have to worry that there will be a lack of high-rise projects in the years to come.

[ukiyo]

Yay

[Momo1435]

TOKYO 東京 | Yomiuri Newspaper New Office Building 読売新聞社が新社屋 | 180m | App

Height update.

Yomiuri announced last April that it will be rebuilding it's headquarters in Otemachi, the announcement was complete with all the data a render. But now it has come out that the plan has been revised, but this time it's no reduction. 3 floors has been added to the original plan raising the height to approximately 200m, the maximum possible with the aviation height restrictions.

old:
height: 180m
floors: 30
function: office
completion: 2014

new:
height: 200m (approximately)
floors: 33

TOKYO 東京 | Yomiuri Newspaper New Office Building 読売新聞社が新社屋 | 200m | App


source:



Original render



I don't know if they are going to stretch this one or if they go with a completely new design.

But it's a good sign that the office market in the 5 central wards in Tokyo is still healthy. Even though the vacancy rates are still 3 times higher then before the financial crisis (2.5% end of 2007 vs. 9% now).

[Momo1435]

TOKYO 東京 | Ariake North 3-1 District (Block 11) 有明北３－１地区（１１街区） | 115m & 115m | App

no render

Sumitomo Real Estate will be developing the plot of land that is now empty right next to the Ariake Tennis Colosseum. It will be a big mixed use development with several new buildings including 2 115m high residential towers. The whole project is called "ＡＲＩＡＫＥ　Ｇａｒｄｅｎ　Ｃｉｔｙ～住・商・業・文化が複合したまちづくり～". The whole project should be complete in 2015.

info:
http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp...2/topi037.html

Stats for the 2 residential towers:

Height: 115m
floors: 33
function: residential
status: plan
start: ?
complete: 01/2015

Location:
Ariake, Koto-ku

http://goo.gl/maps/bVDq

helicopter:


http://building-pc.cocolog-nifty.com/helicopter/

Slowly but steady the whole Odaiba-Ariake area is being filled up will new buildings, when will we see the day that there aren't any building locations left?

[NEO-TOKYO]

All i can say is wow and were did all these 200s come from all of a sudden?

If they can keep this rate of projects and contsrucuction up,I think in about ten years time Tokyo will have a bigger skyline than manhattan and if not the best full 360 skyline in the world.Just think all the little skylines dotted around Tokyo like Shinjuku,Shiodome,Shinagawa and otemachi will soon all start to grow out and one day meet in the middle.

All they really need now is some 300m buildings and that would definitely make it one skyline to be reckoned with.I say resurrect the Shinjuku 300m+ plan ha ha.

Momo would I be right in saying that with these new 200m+ buildings that it would bring the total count of buildings over 200m to about 27 ?

[Momo1435]

Let's count the towers.

currently completed: 19
currently U/C: 2
plans: 5
TV towers: 2

That's 26 or 28, depending on how you count.


The thing about the Shinjuku project was that it was 4 towers in total and only 1 of those was over 300m, it was huge. It was canceled, but doesn't mean that there won't be any redevelopment in this area. We can always hope that in a scaled down project they won't just go with lower towers but with less towers that are still very high or that they only scale down the lower towers.

Since these announcements seem to just pop up we can expect a new plan someday, you just can't predict when.

[starrwulfe]

That Hankyu Hanshin plan intrigues me... Part of me is wondering if it'll mean the unification somehow of the Hankyu-Hanshin rail network... One can dream, right?
http://goo.gl/maps/5l8T
After all-- Hankyu and Hanshin ARE the same company...

[Braillard]

Originally Posted by starrwulfe

That Hankyu Hanshin plan intrigues me... Part of me is wondering if it'll mean the unification somehow of the Hankyu-Hanshin rail network... One can dream, right?
http://goo.gl/maps/5l8T
After all-- Hankyu and Hanshin ARE the same company...

True!

here
or
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But unification of the network would be quite a big task, and costly!
Anyway I like your project! Tell them!!

[Braillard]

But this is probably better to continue this discussion on the transport forum, with our dear Quashlo!

Anyway, I'm really surprised how towers are now scaled up while they were scaled down until as recently as last month. With the news of a 250m. building in Roppongi 3-chome, a 220m. one in Akasaka and the resizing up to 200m. of the Yomiuri Shimbun plan, it is just like if the economic stagnation was suddenly over for japanese real estate builders. Stunning. Is that really the case, or are they anticipating a few years forward, when they will be able to sell it?

I hope that it's not to late to rescale the Nishi-Tomihisa plan back to 220m.!
(Correction jan.10: It IS to late, they scaled it down to 200m. in 2005, and then again to 180m. in 2007, even before the Lehman shock. But that's high for the area.)

But more than that, I'm looking forward for new development in the ARK (Akasaka Roppongi Kamiyacho) Area. There's some big outdated hotels like the Okura or the Shiba Prince Hotel that have large surface suitable for very high towers.

What I find interesting is that high towers development seems to be now concentrating in the area near Ark hills, Izumi garden tower and so on, rather than to spread out on the axis between Shibuya and Roppongi Hills, where land is cheaper though. The Ark hills area will get really nice, and would be even more with for example a redevelopment of the residence of the American embassy.

One question, Momo, you said Yomiuri adds 20m. to its plan ...with only 3 floors??

[Momo1435]

Yes those are the current numbers for the new Yomiuri building, and I was also wondering about the same thing.

But then again with a building with an average floor height of 6 meters it could be done without a total design change.

[Momo1435]

Next year Chiba city will get to see the construction of another 100m tower in the Makuhari Baytown area.

CHIBA 千葉 | Makuhari Baytown Plan 幕張ベイタウン計画 | 119m | plan

no render

height: 119m
floors: 33
function: residential
status: plan
start: 09/2011
complete 03/2014

source:
http://www.nikkei.com/news/local/art...F2F2F2F2F2F2F2

[starrwulfe]

Originally Posted by Braillard

But this is probably better to continue this discussion on the transport forum, with our dear Quashlo!

I did of course

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...postcount=1973

Quashlo is a VERY interesting person... wonder how he gets his info?? Glad to have him and everyone here to talk to!!

[Momo1435]

TOKYO 東京 | 21 - 25 Mori Building Replacement Plan ２１・２５森ビル建替計画 | 110m | Demo

Demolition update

May and December


http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/monakichisan

[NEO-TOKYO]

Once a skyscrapers foundations have been laid,how long does it take to top out the frame?

[Braillard]

Depends on the height and the bulk!

From what I see, it's often about a year and a half, but that may be very subjective. One thing is sure, they build much faster in Japan than in the West.