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NEC Supertower

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Minato, Japan

The 579th tallest building in the world

180 m · 591 ft
NEC Supertower
NEC Supertower. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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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