Torch Tower
Year of completion: 2028 (planned)
Location: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo
Use: Offices, underground malls / underground parking lots, commercial facilities, hotels, public / cultural / sports, street / station squares,
Theme: City planning/redevelopment, urban civil engineering, environmental assessment, landscape
Site Area: Approximately 31,400㎡
Total Floor Area: Approximately 544,000㎡
Number of floors: 63 floors above ground / 4 floors below ground
Construction: S structure, some SRC structure
The Torch Tower is a skyscraper under construction in the Tokyo Torch Redevelopment District in Tokyo, Japan. It is expected to be completed in 2028 and will be the tallest building in Japan, surpassing the 300-meter-high Abeno Harukas in Osaka.
Sou Fujimoto Architects will partner with Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei to design the top of Tokyo’s towering Torch Tower skyscraper, which will become Japan’s tallest building.
The 390-meter-high tower, which is being developed for a site in Chiyoda-ku, will have a large public plaza and viewing platform at its top, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei.
According to studio founder Sou Fujimoto, the goal is to make the tower “a place for people rather than an object.”
When the large Tokyo Station opened in 1914, the Tokiwabashi district in central Tokyo became the gateway to Japan’s modern rail network. The area around the station has become the central financial district of Japan. In the 1960s, Tokiwabashi was redeveloped with large office buildings and now the neighborhood is undergoing another redevelopment, led by the Mitsubishi Estate, a huge landowner, real estate developer and architectural designer all rolled into one. These keiretsu (conglomerates) are unknown in other countries (except South Korea) and can build entire neighborhoods on their own.
The Tokiwabashi Tower contains offices and shops, common areas for employees on two floors (a cafeteria on the third floor and a lounge and conference rooms on the 8th floor). Architecturally, it’s boring. It was designed by Koji Matsuda of Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, the in-house architecture firm of the Mitsubishi Group.
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With the concept of a “building of happiness and health that connects the city to the future”, the new 63-story building above ground generates a new typology of high-rise buildings. In fact, Sou Fujimoto and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, Inc. envisioned a large, semi-open, hill-shaped plaza in the middle of the building, some 300 meters above the ground, creating a “space for the people”. Instead of being limited to “a single object,” the intervention aims to introduce a 390m tall high-rise building for people in the Tokyo skyline.
The lower part of the building includes halls, airways or terraces, underground pedestrian areas directly connected to Tokyo Station, and hydrophilic spaces along the Nihonbashi River centered on a large plaza. In the design of the upper part, Sou Fujimoto reinterprets the traditional space normally available on the ground floor, attempts to break with standard craftsmanship, and breaks the homogeneous verticality of a tower. In addition to the square, the crown of the tower includes an office with a reception hall, a “hill in the sky”, a hotel, and an observation system at a distance of 300 m.
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All Visualization: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc.
https://www.archdaily.com/954996/sou-fujimoto-reveals-design-for-torch-tower-in-tokyo-japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Tower_(Japan)
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/01/28/sou-fujimoto-architects-torch-tower-crown-tokyo/
https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/headlines/japans-tallest-tower