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NEC Supertower

Minato, Japan

The 579th tallest building in the world

180 m · 591 ft

The NEC Super Tower (NEC, NEC Sūpātawā), often known as "NEC Supertower, SuperTower or simply Supertower", headquarters of NEC Corporation, is a 180-metre (590 foot) tall skyscraper in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was completed in 1990 and was designed by Nikken Sekkei. Its primary use is as a commercial office space. Forty-three stories high and five underground, it was constructed at a cost of some ¥60 billion (1999) (equivalent to ¥110 billion or US$700 million in 2024), according to Nikkei Business, January 5, 2007 edition.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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