Shin-Marunouchi Building

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building_name = Shin Marunouchi Building


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location = Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
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constructed = 2007
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opening = April 2007
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use = Offices and restaurants
antenna_spire = 197.6 m
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top_floor = 38
floor_count = 42 (38 above ground, 4 underground)
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floor_area =195,490 ㎡
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The nihongo|Shin Marunouchi Building|新丸の内ビルディング|Shin Marunouchi Birudhingu, or New Marunouchi Building, is the highest building of the Chiyoda ward in Tokyo. The building was completed on April 19, 2007, and open to the public on April 27, 2007. It is often called as "Shin Maru Biru" in short.

A building called "Maru Biru" was a building project during 1919-1922. [Clancey, Gregory. (p 201)]

Overview

The previous eight story high nihongo|Shin Marunouchi Building|新丸ノ内ビルヂング|Shin Marunouchi Birudingu was built there in 1952. The construction work of the current building began on March 15, 2005, and the building was one of the commercial complex buildings in Marunouchi Manhattan Plan, a redevelopment project in the Marunouchi area, following to the Marunouchi OAZO and the Tokyo Building TOKIA.

The building contains office floors, and 153 stores are housed in total. [http://www.shinmaru.jp/04_about/facilities.html The Shin Marunouchi Building Outline] ] The total construction cost was about 90 billion yen, and constructed by the Takenaka Corporation. A British architect, Michael Hopkins, designed the building, who won the Special Award of the Civic Trust Award for Sustainability in 2002. [ [http://www.shinmaru.jp/04_about/concept.html The Shin Marunouchi Building Concept] ]

The basement floor connects to the Tokyo Station, as well as other buildings neighboured to the Shin Marunouchi Building.

Sources

Literature

Clancey, Gregory. Earthquake Nation : The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. University of California Press, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.shinmaru.jp/english/index.html The Shin Marunouchi Building] en icon
* [http://www.marunouchi.com/e_index.html Marunouchi.com] en icon