| Robinsons Summit Center | |
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"The Business Center in the center of business"[1] |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Office |
| Location | 6783 Ayala Avenue, Makati City, Philippines |
| Coordinates | |
| Construction started | 1997 |
| Completed | 2001 |
| Opening | 2001 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 174 m (570.87 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 38 |
| Design and construction | |
| Owner | Robinsons Land Corporation |
| Main contractor | D.M. Consunji, Inc. |
| Architect | Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum; W.V. Coscoluella & Associates |
| Developer | Robinsons Land Corporation |
| Structural engineer | R.S. Caparros Associates & Company |
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Robinsons Summit Center, formerly known as the JG Summit Center, is an office skyscraper located in Makati City, Philippines. It is owned by JG Summit Holdings, Inc., and developed by its real estate arm, Robinsons Land Corporation. It stands at 174 metres (570.87 feet), it is currently the 9th-tallest complete building in Makati City, and is one of the tallest buildings in the Philippines.[4]
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The Robinsons Summit Center was designed and masterplanned by the international architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), in cooperation with Filipino architectural firm W.V. Coscolluela & Associates. The building's structural frame was designed by R.S. Caparros Associates & Company.[6] The building boasts of an unobstructed view of the Makati skyline from all floors. Its has a double-height main lobby and double-height glass wall frontage, and a three-zone vertical movement configuration for optimum elevator performance. A rooftop master antenna, while providing great potential for the building's communication systems, also serve as an architectural highlight to the entire building.[1][8]
Strategically situated along Ayala Avenue near the corner of Paseo de Roxas Avenue, The Robinsons Summit Center is accessible and near every other major destination in Makati. Around its area are the Glorietta Mall and Ayala Center, educational institutions like the Asian Institute of Management, the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and the Ateneo Law School. It is also a few blocks away from deluxe hotels like Makati Shangri-La, The Peninsula Manila, Mandarin Oriental Manila, The InterContinental Hotel, Dusit Hotel plus the service facilities of the Makati Medical Center and the Central Post Office.[1]
It is selected as a base of major call centers and a telecommunications company.[8]
The building is designed to comprise only 6 units per floor with an average floor plate of only 1,200 sq.m. At the 8th and 9th floors is a branch of Fitness First health club, which offers a wide variety of cardio-vascular equipment and weight based machines, free weights, or air-resistance machines. The health club is open to non-tenants as well. The building also has a helipad located on the its roofdeck, a 10-level parking with over 390 slots, and is equipped with a state-of-the-art building management and communications system.
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