Yokohama Landmark Tower
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| Yokohama Landmark Tower | |
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横浜ランドマークタワー | |
 Yokohama Landmark Tower, July 2015 | |
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| Record height | |
| Tallest in Japan from 1993 to 2014[I] | |
| Preceded by | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building |
| Surpassed by | Abeno Harukas |
| General information | |
| Location | Yokohama, Japan |
| Coordinates | 35°27′17″N 139°37′54″E / 35.45472°N 139.63167°E |
| Construction started | 20 March 1990 |
| Completed | 1993 |
| Opening | 16 July 1993 |
| Cost | ¥270 billion |
| Owner | Mitsubishi Estate Co. |
| Height | |
| Architectural | 296.3 m (972 ft)[1] |
| Top floor | 277 m (909 ft)[2] |
| Observatory | 273 m (896 ft)[1] |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 73[1] |
| Floor area | 292,791 m2 (3,151,580 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 79 by Mitsubishi Electric |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates |
| Main contractor | Shimizu Corporation |
| References | |
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The Yokohama Landmark Tower (横浜ランドマークタワー, Yokohama Randomāku Tawā) is the third tallest building[1] and fifth tallest structure in Japan, standing 296.3 m (972 ft) high. Until surpassed by Abeno Harukas in 2014, it stood as the tallest building in Japan. It is located in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama city, next to the Yokohama Museum of Art.[3]
The building contains a five-star hotel which occupies floors 49–70, with 603 rooms in total.[1] The lower 48 floors contain shops, restaurants, clinics, and offices. The building contains two tuned mass dampers on the (hidden) 71st floor on opposite corners of the building.[4]
On the 69th floor there is an observatory, Sky Garden, from which one can see a 360-degree view of the city and, on clear days, Mount Fuji.[5]
The tower contains what were at their inauguration the world's fastest elevators (installed by Mitsubishi Electric), which reach speeds of 12.5 m/s (41 ft/s)[1] (45.0 km/h (28.0 mph)). This speed allows the elevator to reach the 69th floor in approximately 40 seconds.[6] The elevators' speed record was surpassed by elevators of Taipei 101 (60.6 km/h, 37.7 mi/h) in 2004, but the speed of this elevator's descent is still the fastest in the world.[7]
The building was designed by the architecture and engineering division of Mitsubishi Estate, now Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and Hugh Stubbins and Associates, later KlingStubbins.
Facilities
[edit]- Sky Garden(Observation deck) - 2F(Entrance), 5F(Exit), 69F(273m point)
- Yokohama Royal Park Hotel - B1F(Lobby), LF(Lobby), 3F(Entrance), 49-50F, 52-68F, 70F
- Office - 1F(Lobby), 3F(Lobby), 8-48F
- Shopping Floor - 1-4F
- Tower Dining - 5F
- Clinic Floor - 7F
- Landmark Plaza - B2F-B1F, 1-3F
- Landmark Hall - 5F
- Dockyard Garden - B2F-B1F, 1F
- Parking - B3F-B1f
- Mechanical rooms- 6F, 51F
In popular culture
[edit]See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Landmark Tower". The Skyscraper Center. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013.
- ^ 70F スカイラウンジ シリウス - 【公式】横浜ロイヤルパークホテル - みなとみらい駅（みなとみらい線）から徒歩約3分 - みなとみらい 夜景の綺麗なホテル
- ^ "Project Outline". Kintetsu. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Septimu-George Luca; Cristan Pastia; Florentina Chira (2007). "Recent applications of some active control systems to civil engineering structures" (PDF). Bulletin of the Polytechnic Institute of Jassy: 25. ISSN 2537-2726.
- ^ "Yokohama Landmark Tower Sky Garden". Yokohama official visitor's guilde. Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
- ^ スカイガーデン [About Sky Garden] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
- ^ "下り「世界最速」のエレベーターと言えばココ…時速４５キロでビューン". 読売新聞 (in Japanese). 9 April 2022. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
External links
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- The Landmark Tower official site
Geographic data related to Yokohama Landmark Tower at OpenStreetMap
