[Momo1435]

TOKYO 東京 | Tokiwabashi District Redevelopment Project 常盤橋街区再開発プロジェクト | 210m 390m | Pro


tower C

tower A

press releases Japanese:
http://www.mec.co.jp/j/news/archives/mec150831_tb_390.pdf
http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/tiiki/kokusentoc/tokyoken/tokyotoshisaisei/dai6/shiryou1.pdf


press release English:
http://www.mec.co.jp/e/news/pdf/mec150831_tk_390m_e.pdf


information:

Building A
height: 212m
floors: 38
use: Office
status: U/C
start: January 2018
complete: April 2021

Building B
height: 390m
floors: 61
use: Office
status: Pro
start: 2023
complete: 2027

Location:
Otemachi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Ja...2!3m1!1s0x60188bfee20f4c87:0x29d38637a0758c94


Plaza

 

[Momo1435]

This is going to be one of the longest running thread, although I don't think it will see too much action before 2018 when the 1st tower goes U/C.



The English press release from MEC, I copied the English name from this document.

http://www.mec.co.jp/e/news/pdf/mec150831_tk_390m_e.pdf


.pdf from the Urban Renaissance Agency, with lots of images, maps, diagrams and info:

http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/tiiki/kokusentoc/tokyoken/tokyotoshisaisei/dai6/shiryou1.pdf


The main render without text.

 

[ukiyo]

I really hope they bring the date forward for the super tall. The property market won't be doing so well after 2020 IMO, even in Tokyo the population will finally start to fall. By then the country will have several million less people and economic growth will probably be even lower. It would be safer to start construction in 2019 a year before the Olympics.

 

[Harry Mason]

Nice design. I only hope the proposed design will not be changed to a glassy boxy design.

 

[Groom]

i think...All skyscrapers in Tokyo is glassbox design. It's look modern for skyview.

 

[Harry Mason]

i think...All skyscrapers in Tokyo is glassbox design. It's look modern for skyview.

I totally agree with you. But I think that Tokyo need a different design concept for it's skyscrapers. I have some good examples for you that Japanese skylines can be really futuristic:

Shiodome City Center
Dentsu Headquarters
Roppongi Hills
Toranomon Hills

 

[hamasaki]

 

[inefekt]

This is the picture which really illustrates the enormity of the project, you don't get that sense of size in the other pics. It's really huge in this one :cheers:

 

[RegentHouse]

Nice design. I only hope the proposed design will not be changed to a glassy boxy design.

Please don't jinx it. At least it's Mitsubishi, who I believe doesn't change the architecture and height like Mitsui (*cough* *cough* Shin Tokyo Takeda Building) and Sumitomo (Roppongi 3-chome East District Redevelopment, which actually changed for the better).

I'm surprised the renderings were released so early.

 

[hamasaki]

61 above ground - approx.390m

This skyscraper building has a quite high ceiling structure.

 

[qpwoeiruty]

Total floor area - 490,000 m2

And quite a bit of girth. It isn't just the renderings that make it look fat. By comparison, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower at 60 stories (incl. 6 below ground) has 379,408 m2. This supertall's floors are bigger than Roppongi Hills.

 

[Momo1435]

From the render I would say the tower will have a footprint of around 100m x 100m, the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower = about 90m x 90m. This means that the new tower will have floors that are 20% bigger then Roppongi Hills. Which is also rounded off the difference in total floor area + the difference in floor numbers.

As for the floor heights, they are indeed large. But from the renders it's clear that the office floors won't be to different from other new offices in the area. It's the other floors in the between the offices (highlighted by hamasaki's Observatory!? post) And especially the top which adds about 40m to the total without any floors.


But, I'm 100% certain that it won't be constructed like this, there will be changes to the design. I don't have to jinx anything as it will happen anyway.

 

[Xenoplas]

I wouldn't have expected something like this so I'll stay skeptically for now. way too many years till construction at least for the higher tower. the design looks okay. not a box that's certain but not exactly something great. a bit fat at least in the renders. the height is great but I'm also a bit skeptical about how it'll look from the garden of the palace. an interesting project though. the second tower looks very good to me.

 

[AlvaroKorea]

Looks like a very important and interesting project. Cannot wait to see it finished

 

[Jim856796]

I have been thinking about Tokyo developing a supertall building for some time now, especially after Osaka opened the Abeno Harukas tower last year, but it looks unlikely as it would prove difficult to find a site where such a tower wouldn't end up on the flight path of Haneda Airport.

Other possible locations for a supertall building in Tokyo include a site east of the Roppongi Hills Complex, or maybe at the west entrance of Shinjuku Station, replacing all the existing department stores there.

Besides, any reasons for the selection of Otemachi as the place to develop a supertall building?

 

[The seventh shape]

It's very bulky but I guess it would need to be to protect against earthquakes.

 

[Munwon]

2027!!!!..... I will check this thread again in 5 years

 

[Zaz965]

^^
So will I

 

[RegentHouse]

But, I'm 100% certain that it won't be constructed like this, there will be changes to the design. I don't have to jinx anything as it will happen anyway.

Of course some adjustments will be made, but we're only pleading the crown isn't flattened and corners don't get squared off (i.e. turned into a box).

 

[toshi7ant]

Wow, amazing, great design...