Shibuya Solasta

A 21-story, 107-meter office tower completed in 2019 on Dogenzaka, Shibuya. While Shibuya's major redevelopments concentrated around the station and east exit, Solasta quietly renewed an older block on the slope, adding a glass curtain-wall accent to the hillside streetscape.

Use

Office tower

Area

Shibuya City

Completed

2019

Floors

21 above ground, 1 below

Height

106 m

Total floor area

approx. 46,953 m²

Architect

Shimizu Corporation / Tokyu Construction Consultant JV

A Slope Block Renewed While the Station Changed

From Shibuya’s famous scramble crossing, Dogenzaka climbs west toward Daikanyama. Midway up that slope, where the density of bars and low-rise commercial buildings begins to thin, a glass-clad office tower rises 21 stories and approximately 107 meters: Shibuya Solasta (SHIBUYA SOLASTA), completed in March 2019. Designed and built by a joint venture of Shimizu Corporation and Tokyu Construction Consultant, with a total floor area of about 46,900 square meters, the building represents the kind of urban renewal that often goes unnoticed amid the larger spectacle of station-area redevelopment.

The same years saw Shibuya Scramble Square, Shibuya Stream, and Shibuya Hikarie capture the most attention, each rising from the station footprint or its immediate surrounds. Solasta arrived on Dogenzaka — a block away from that story — replacing the low-rise mixed buildings that had stood on the slope for decades.

The Boundary Between Shibuya and Daikanyama

Dogenzaka Icho-me, where Solasta stands, marks the transition between Shibuya’s concentrated commercial core and the lower-rise residential and boutique areas extending toward Daikanyama and Hachiyama. The glass curtain-wall facade catches the slope’s southern light and introduces a vertical element into a streetscape that previously read as a continuous medium-rise texture.

Together with the neighboring Cerulean Tower — visible from Solasta’s side — the building extends Shibuya’s office supply southwest along an axis that parallels the main redevelopment zone without competing with it. It is the kind of project that changes a city block’s function and profile without commanding headlines: the slope’s silhouette, as seen from Shibuya’s west, is quietly different for it.

Summary

Shibuya Solasta was completed in 2019 with 21 floors above ground and a height of approximately 107 meters. On a slope that was already changing in the background of Shibuya’s more publicized transformations, it renewed an older urban block with a glass-curtain-wall tower that holds its own next to the Cerulean Tower nearby. Walk up Dogenzaka from the scramble crossing, pause halfway up the hill, and look for the glass facade rising above the roofline — a quiet marker of how Shibuya’s evolution plays out block by block, not only at the station.

Related: Cerulean Tower / Shibuya Scramble Square / Shibuya Stream

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