The opening of the Toranomon Hills Station Tower will mark the significant completion of Mori Building’s Toranomon Hills development, a new international urban hub and global business center. A multi-layered transportation node and network integrated into the tower will establish a new gateway connecting Central Tokyo and the world. The project will be OMA’s first tower in Tokyo, and in Japan.
Tokyo, JP–Mori Building Co., Ltd., a leading urban developer, unveiled on January 24th, 2023, new renderings and identity of Toranomon Hills, and announced the Fall 2023 opening date of Toranomon Hills Station Tower (the Station Tower).
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Located in Toranomon Hills “Global Business Center” near Kasumigaseki—adjacent to ARK Hills, a lifestyle and cultural center, and within walking distance from Roppongi Hills “Cultural Heart of Tokyo” and Azabudai Hills “Modern Urban Village,”—the Station Tower will stand at the terminus of Shintora-dori Avenue, Tokyo’s newly configured axial thoroughfare connecting Tokyo Bay to city center. The tower will add to, and connect, a series of freestanding mixed- use developments to establish Toranomon Hills as the new global hub of Tokyo.
The Station Tower is a mixed-use, high-rise tower spanning 49-floors and reaching 266 m in height. Comprised of offices, commercial spaces, hotels and interactive communication facility TOKYO NODE, the tower will be integrated to the newly opened Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line station (2020) and function as a major transportation hub for Tokyo and beyond.
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“Our first tower in Tokyo is dedicated to connections, to its high-rise neighbors and diverse neighborhood networks. The Station Tower confronts and resonates with the three-dimensionality of Tokyo’s urban environment that steers people through stacks and layers of places and activities. It’s shaped by a central activity band that allows life around the tower to lead into, up and over, and through its potentially sobering scale. Carved, bisected, and shifted in form from base to top, it spatially and programmatically opens up to new links—to Shintora-dori, the bay area, the new pedestrian and green network of Toranomon Hills Area, the greater Tokyo Metro network, and the global network of creatives that will activate TOKYO NODE,” said Shohei Shigematsu, OMA Partner.
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To create the necessary, highly public interface to the tower, OMA has designed a building as an extension of the nature and activities of Shintora-dori Avenue. The base of the building, expressed as a large funnel, will open the heart of the building to draw the public inward. The T-DECK, a large-scale pedestrian bridge, will emphatically link the tower to the diverse Toranomon Hills developments to improve circulation and forge a lively network of activities and greenery.
The bridge sectionally divides and defines two public zones at the tower base, an Upper Atrium and the Station Atrium below. The Station Atrium will integrate the development to the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. The Station Atrium, a three- story concourse flooded with natural light, will be the first of its kind in Tokyo and provide an exciting sense of arrival. The public activity at the base will extend vertically to form a central band of special areas for tower tenants.
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The top of the tower will be home to TOKYO NODE, a new type of facility devised together with Mori Building. A hybrid of flexible venue and innovative forum, it will be an interactive communication facility including halls, galleries, studio, garden, pool, and restaurants. TOKYO NODE will gather creative people and ideas to catalyze new values and experiences, disseminating content and information created by enhancing collaborations that transcend domains such as business, art, entertainment, technology, and fashion.
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Together with Mori Tower (2014), Business Tower (2020), and Residential Tower (2022), and the opening of the Station Tower will mark the continued evolution of Toranomon Hills—a 7.5 ha and approximately 800,000 m2 new neighborhood in Central Tokyo. Additional transportation infrastructure such as roads, bus terminal, subways, and pedestrian decks will be integrated in the future to complete the new international hub and global business center comparable to the scale of Roppongi Hills.
The Toranomon Hills Station Tower, TOKYO NODE, Glass Rock building, and Toranomon Hills Edomizaka Terrace Building are designed by Partner Shohei Shigematsu, Associate Takeshi Mitsuda and Jake Forster, and OMA New York—in collaboration with Mori Building Co., Ltd. (Executive Architect), Kume Sekkei (Executive Architect, Structure MEP/FP, Façade),and Arup Japan (Façade).
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Cover photo: Courtesy Mori Building Co., Ltd.
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