ThinkPark Tower

A 30-storey, 140.5-metre office tower completed in 2007 on the former Meidensha Osaki factory site — Tokyo's first Urban Renaissance Special District project — anchoring the long-delayed redevelopment of Osaki Station's west exit.

Use

Office tower

Area

Shinagawa City

Completed

2007

Floors

30 above ground, 2 below

Height

140.5 m

Total floor area

approx. 151,937 m²

Developer

Meidensha / World Trade Center Building Company

Architect

Nikken Sekkei

Osaki, Remade

Step off the Yamanote Line at Osaki Station’s west exit and ThinkPark Tower stands directly in front of you: a glass-curtain-wall office building completed in October 2007, 30 floors above ground and 2 below, reaching 140.5 metres with a total floor area of approximately 151,938 square metres. The project was designed by Nikken Sekkei and developed jointly by Meidensha and the World Trade Center Building Company.

The site has a clear industrial past. Meidensha, an electrical equipment manufacturer, moved its main factory to Osaki in 1913 and operated there for more than seven decades. When the plant closed in 1985, it left behind one of the largest available development parcels near the Yamanote Line in Tokyo’s south. Plans for the Osaki Station West Exit district took shape over the following years, with ThinkPark Tower eventually emerging as the centrepiece.

The First Urban Renaissance Special District

The tower holds a specific place in Tokyo’s planning history: it was the first project to receive designation under the Urban Renaissance Special District framework, a system established in 2002 to accelerate redevelopment in priority areas. Osaki had been officially named a sub-centre of Tokyo in 1982, but its development trailed the city’s other designated sub-centres by roughly two decades. ThinkPark Tower’s completion helped establish the west exit as a credible high-grade office address.

Together with the adjacent Osaki With City, the tower anchors a cluster of high-rise buildings that has reshaped the southern reach of the Yamanote Line loop. Where Meidensha once manufactured transformers and switchgear, Nikken Sekkei’s glass tower now reflects the sky — a quiet visual account of how a factory district became a business address.

Summary

ThinkPark Tower was completed in 2007, standing 30 floors and 140.5 metres in Osaki 2-chome, Shinagawa City. Designed by Nikken Sekkei and developed jointly by Meidensha and the World Trade Center Building Company on the Meidensha factory site, it became Tokyo’s first Urban Renaissance Special District project — a milestone in the long-delayed redevelopment of Osaki’s west exit.

Stand in the station forecourt and look up: the transformation from factory floor to glass tower reads clearly in the height and scale of what replaced it. Worth a detour from Shinagawa on any walk along the south end of the Yamanote.

Related: Shinagawa Grand Commons / Shinagawa Intercity

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