The 49-story Toranomon Hills Station Tower opens coming autumn - Mori Building

Completion image of Toranomon Hills (Note: please be sure to state the copyright “©The Boundary” when using this image.) (Graphic: Business Wire)



KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 (Bernama) -- Mori Building Co Ltd, Japan’s leading urban landscape developer, has announced that the 49-story Toranomon Hills Station Tower will open this autumn.

“This project is being led by the Toranomon 1 & 2-chome District Urban Redevelopment Association, in which Mori Building is a leading participant,” it said in a statement.

With the birth of Toranomon Hills Station Tower, which currently is being thoroughly integrated with Toranomon Hills Station, the entire Toranomon Hills area, which has been expanding and evolving at an unprecedented speed toward the realisation of a new international hub and global business centre, will be completed as a “city” boasting a scale and impact comparable to that of Roppongi Hills.

Toranomon Hills Station Tower is a multi-purpose 266-metre high tower with 49 floors above ground and four floors underground which will offer world-class office, as well as retail facilities integrated with the station plaza and a hotel making its debut in Tokyo.

By integrating the overall development with Toranomon Hills Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, the tower will be complemented by a large and bustling station plaza and a pedestrian deck measuring 20 metres in width above Sakurada-dori Avenue (National Route 1), offering access to Toranomon Hills Mori Tower Oval Square.

By strengthening and expanding the local multilevel transportation network on the ground, underground and the deck-level, the Station Tower will greatly enhance the Toranomon Hills as a transportation node and will enliven the entire area by significantly improving pedestrian flows.

The tower‘s top-most level will be home to TOKYO NODE, an interactive communication facility consisting of halls, galleries, pool, restaurants and other facilities fully capable of creating new values, ideas and business transcending domains, aimed at sharing creativity with the world.

The design of Toranomon Hills Station Tower is OMA’s first large-scale architectural project in Tokyo. Its design is based on ”THE ACTIVITY BAND” concept, or urban axis running from Shintora-dori Avenue to the Akasaka/Toranomon area, creating a symbolic place for people to gather and interact along the axis.

-- BERNAMA