Shinjuku Center Building
Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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The Shinjuku Center Building is a 223-meter, 54-story skyscraper completed in 1979 in the Nishi-Shinjuku business district of Tokyo, designed and built by the Taisei Corporation, which maintains its headquarters there. Opening on October 31, 1979, the tower accommodates roughly 10,000 workers and welcomes over 25,000 daily visitors. The building underwent comprehensive renovation in 1998 and gained international distinction in 2009 when it became the first structure worldwide to be retrofitted with seismic dampers—288 oil dampers installed across floors 15 through 39—to mitigate long-period earthquake vibrations, a technology that proved effective during the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake by reducing response by 20 percent. The tower appeared in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla and gained additional notoriety when French climber Alain Robert scaled its facade in 1998, resulting in his arrest upon reaching the summit.
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- Built
- Type
- skyscraper
- Place
- Nishi-Shinjuku, Japan
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