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Umeda Sky Building

Ōyodo-Naka, Japan

The 608th tallest building in the world

173 m · 568 ft

The Umeda Sky Building (Umeda Sukai Biru) is a two-tower mixed-use skyscraper in Osaka, Japan. Located on the outskirts of the Umeda business district in Kita-ku, Osaka, the Umeda Sky Building consists of two 40-story towers interconnected at their two uppermost stories via glass bridges with escalators and elevators that cross an open atrium space. It is currently the fifteenth-tallest building in the prefecture. The towers reach a total height of 170 m (557.74 ft) while the overall height of the tower including the spires is 190 metres (623.4 ft). The towers were designed by Hiroshi Hara, and were constructed by Takenaka Corporation They were completed in 1993.

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

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