CVU Silver Member

Nikken Sekkei Ltd

About

Member Since: 1991

Member Offices: Tokyo

Website: http://www.nikken.co.jp/

At the turn of the 20th Century, as modernism was entering the realm of architectural thought, a small company of 29 visionary architects, designers and engineers was formed to construct a new library in Osaka. The wide critical acclaim the structure received resulted in continuance of the firm.

Now, with over 2,500 employees and projects in 50 countries, Nikken Sekkei enjoys the distinction of being among the largest — and to many, the most successful — architectural design firms in the world. By the 1930’s, they had instituted a prototype for a design review system, later evolving into their “Design Process Innovation” which aims to enhance collective creative thinking.

Their projects have had an immense impact on the urban skyline, especially in the Pacific Rim where their presence has been most strongly felt since the beginning of the 21st Century.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Status

Completed

Architecturally Topped Out

Structurally Topped Out

Under Construction

On Hold

Proposed

Vision

Never Completed

Demolished

Competition Entry

Canceled

Proposed Renovation

Under Renovation

Renovated

Under Demolition

Height
1 Tokyo Sky Tree
634 m / 2,080  ft
2 Ping An Finance Center
360 m / 1,181  ft
3 Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai
350 m / 1,148  ft
4 SUNAC Center Tower 1
343.5 m / 1,127  ft
5 Riyadh Tower
338 m / 1,109  ft
6 Tokyo Tower
332.9 m / 1,092  ft
7 One Za'abeel The Tower
301.4 m / 989  ft
8 Nihonbashi 1-Chōme Central District Redevelopment
284 m / 932  ft
9 Forte Tower 1
281.3 m / 923  ft
10 One Lujiazui
269.1 m / 883  ft

Awards

Ping An Financial Center

Award of Excellence: Ping An Financial Center

Best Tall Building, by Height, 300 meters and above 2025

CVU Leaders

Jan Henckens

Jan Henckens

CVU Regional Hub, Asia Steering Committee, 2023 – Present

Tokyo

Associated companies

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

RANK
Name
Height
1 Hanoi Broadcast Tower

636 m / 2,087 ft

2 Tokyo Sky Tree

634 m / 2,080 ft

3 Metropoliya Tower 1

364 m / 1,194 ft

4 Ping An Finance Center

360 m / 1,181 ft

5 Trump International Hotel and Tower Dubai

350 m / 1,148 ft

6 W350 Tower

350 m / 1,148 ft

7 SUNAC Center Tower 1

344 m / 1,127 ft

8 Riyadh Tower

338 m / 1,109 ft

9 Tokyo Tower

333 m / 1,092 ft

10 One Za'abeel The Tower

301 m / 989 ft

11 Nihonbashi 1-Chōme Central District Redevelopment

284 m / 932 ft

12 Forte Tower 1

281 m / 923 ft

13 One Lujiazui

269 m / 883 ft

14 Azabudai Hills Residence B

263 m / 862 ft

15 Ningbo Global Shipping Plaza

262 m / 861 ft

16 Menara Astra

262 m / 858 ft

17 Cadre City Plaza West Tower

257 m / 843 ft

18 Rinku Gate Tower

256 m / 840 ft

18 Rinku Gate Tower 2

256 m / 840 ft

20 Osaka World Trade Center

256 m / 840 ft

21 Midtown Tower

248 m / 813 ft

22 Midland Square

247 m / 810 ft

23 Beijing Television Center

239 m / 784 ft

24 One Za'abeel The Residences

238 m / 782 ft

25 Azabudai Hills Residence A

237 m / 778 ft

26 World Trade Center North

235 m / 771 ft

27 Fukuoka Tower

234 m / 768 ft

28 AI W Tower

231 m / 758 ft

29 Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower

231 m / 757 ft

30 The Iconic Landmark Tower

229 m / 751 ft

31 Taiping Finance Tower

228 m / 748 ft

32 CITIC Plaza

228 m / 748 ft

33 Trade Tower

228 m / 748 ft

34 Bank of China Tower

226 m / 742 ft

35 Yaesu 2 Chome Central District Category 1 Urban Redevelopment Project

226 m / 741 ft

36 St. Luke's Tower

221 m / 724 ft

37 Newport Plaza

215 m / 705 ft

38 The Suzhou Modern Media Plaza 1

215 m / 705 ft

39 Shinjuku Sumitomo Building

211 m / 693 ft

40 JR Gate Tower

211 m / 693 ft

41 Pudong International Information Port

211 m / 692 ft

42 Taiping Financial Tower

208 m / 682 ft

43 GranTokyo North Tower

205 m / 673 ft

44 GranTokyo South Tower

205 m / 673 ft

45 Cadre City Plaza East Tower

202 m / 663 ft

46 Izumi Garden Tower

201 m / 659 ft

47 Tadawul Tower

200 m / 656 ft

48 Otemachi One Tower

200 m / 656 ft

49 The Yomiuri Shimbun Building

200 m / 656 ft

50 AI X Tower

200 m / 656 ft

51 Nakanoshima Festival Tower West

199 m / 654 ft

52 Nakanoshima Festival Tower

199 m / 653 ft

53 Tower 52

198 m / 650 ft

54 World Trade Center South Tower

197 m / 647 ft

55 One Dojima

195 m / 640 ft

56 KEPCO Headquarters

195 m / 640 ft

57 N6E Building

190 m / 623 ft

58 Lujiazui Century Tower 1

190 m / 623 ft

59 Dalian Sightseeing Tower

190 m / 623 ft

60 Umeda 3Chome Project

188 m / 617 ft

61 Suzhou Taiping Finance Centre

188 m / 616 ft

62 Umeda Hankyu Building

187 m / 614 ft

63 Sisli Culture & Commercial Center 1

185 m / 607 ft

63 Sisli Culture & Commercial Center 2

185 m / 607 ft

65 Aurora Plaza, Pudong

185 m / 607 ft

66 Fuyu

185 m / 607 ft

67 Shinjuku Oak Tower

184 m / 603 ft

68 Shibuya Hikarie

183 m / 599 ft

69 Tokyo Nihonbashi Tower

182 m / 598 ft

70 msb Tamachi Tamachi Station Tower N

180 m / 591 ft

71 NEC Supertower

180 m / 591 ft

72 Citigroup Tower

180 m / 591 ft

73 Toyosu Bayside Cross

180 m / 591 ft

74 Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho - Kioi Tower

180 m / 591 ft

75 Peace Tower

180 m / 591 ft

76 Grand Front Osaka Tower A

179 m / 588 ft

77 Sumitomo Fudosan Mita Twin Building West

179 m / 588 ft

78 Aki

177 m / 581 ft

79 Shin Kong Place T1

176 m / 578 ft

79 Shin Kong Place T2

176 m / 578 ft

81 Forte Tower 2

176 m / 577 ft

82 Grand Front Osaka Tower B

175 m / 575 ft

83 Harumi Island Triton Square Tower Y

175 m / 574 ft

84 Cayan Cantara Branded Residences

175 m / 574 ft

85 JR Tower

173 m / 568 ft

86 Queen's Tower A

172 m / 564 ft

87 City Towers Toyosu North Tower

171 m / 562 ft

88 Kyobashi EDOGRAND

170 m / 559 ft

89 Mode Gakuen Spiral Towers

170 m / 558 ft

90 msb Tamachi Tamachi Station Tower S

170 m / 558 ft

91 Kansai Electric Power Kobe Building

170 m / 558 ft

92 JT Building

170 m / 557 ft

93 Land Axis Tower

168 m / 552 ft

94 Central Park La Tour Shinjuku

168 m / 551 ft

95 City Towers Toyosu South Tower

167 m / 548 ft

96 Toyosu Center Building

165 m / 542 ft

97 Naka-Meguro Atlas Tower

165 m / 541 ft

98 The SuzhouModern Media Plaza 2

165 m / 541 ft

99 Shibuya Upper Project

165 m / 541 ft

100 Natsu

164 m / 537 ft

101 Nihon Seimei Marunouchi Building

160 m / 525 ft

102 Xinyuan Honey Mart

160 m / 524 ft

103 Sekaiboeki Center Building

158 m / 518 ft

104 Mitsui & Co. Building

158 m / 518 ft

105 Galaxy 1 Building

157 m / 516 ft

106 Sumitomo Castle Tower

157 m / 515 ft

106 Twin 21 MID Tower

157 m / 515 ft

106 Twin 21 National Tower

157 m / 515 ft

109 Sisli Culture & Commercial Center 3

156 m / 512 ft

109 Sisli Culture & Commercial Center 4

156 m / 512 ft

111 NEC Tamagawa Renaissance City Phase II

156 m / 512 ft

112 Nissei Hamamatsucho Crea Tower

156 m / 512 ft

113 Yasuda Seimei Osaka Building

156 m / 511 ft

114 Haru

155 m / 509 ft

115 China World Trade Center I

155 m / 509 ft

115 China World Trade Center II

155 m / 509 ft

117 Harumi Island Triton Square Tower Z

155 m / 509 ft

118 Nikkei Building

155 m / 509 ft

119 Grand Front Osaka Intercontinental Hotel

154 m / 506 ft

120 Saitama-Shintoshin National Government Building Tower 1

154 m / 505 ft

121 Garden Air Tower

153 m / 501 ft

122 Yokohama Mitsui Building

152 m / 499 ft

123 Halo Tower

152 m / 497 ft

124 Odakyu Southern Tower

151 m / 495 ft

125 Shiba-Koen First Building

151 m / 495 ft

126 Cayan Cantara Hotel Apartments

151 m / 494 ft

127 Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East Tower

150 m / 492 ft

128 NTT Cred Motomachi Building

150 m / 492 ft

129 Iidabashi Grand Bloom

150 m / 492 ft

130 Pacific Century Plaza

150 m / 491 ft

131 Sumitomo Realty Iidabashi First Tower

150 m / 491 ft

132 Museum Tower Kyobashi

150 m / 491 ft

133 Park Court Chiyoda Fujimi The Tower

149 m / 489 ft

134 Namba Park Tower

149 m / 489 ft

135 Shin-Daibiru Building

149 m / 487 ft

136 Tohoku Denryoku Head Office Building

148 m / 486 ft

137 Regenerative Tree

148 m / 486 ft

138 Marunouchi Kitaguchi Building

147 m / 484 ft

139 Swissôtel Nankai

147 m / 482 ft

140 Mizuno Crystal Building

147 m / 482 ft

141 St. Luke's International Residences

146 m / 479 ft

142 Bunkyō Civic Center

146 m / 478 ft

143 Sumitomo Seimei Sendai Chou Building

143 m / 469 ft

144 Iino Building

143 m / 469 ft

145 Nakanoshima Mitsui Building

140 m / 460 ft

145 Yokohama Grand Inter-Continental Hotel

140 m / 460 ft

147 Sumitomo Seimei Nakanoshima Building

140 m / 459 ft

148 Keio Plaza Hotel South Building

139 m / 455 ft

149 Queen's Tower B

138 m / 452 ft

150 Futakotamagawa Rise 2a

137 m / 449 ft

151 Algrad Higashi-Shinsaibashi Mansion

136 m / 447 ft

152 Kobe Crystal Tower

135 m / 443 ft

153 Shinjuku NS Building

134 m / 439 ft

154 Shiodome Building

134 m / 438 ft

155 NBF Osaki Building

133 m / 436 ft

156 Rihga Royal Hotel Kokura

132 m / 433 ft

157 Nissei Dowa Kasai Sompo Phoenix Tower

132 m / 433 ft

158 Pias Tower

132 m / 433 ft

159 Proud Tower Higashiikebukuro Station Arena

131 m / 431 ft

160 Lujiazui Century Tower 2

130 m / 427 ft

160 Lujiazui Century Tower 3

130 m / 427 ft

162 Meiji Yasuda Seimei Shinjuku Building

129 m / 423 ft

163 Shiodome Sumitomo Building

126 m / 415 ft

164 Shinsei Bank Headquarters

126 m / 413 ft

165 Tokyo Square Garden

124 m / 408 ft

166 Toyosu IHI Building

124 m / 408 ft

167 Sapporo Sosei Square

124 m / 407 ft

168 Takeda Global Headquarters

124 m / 407 ft

169 Tower 42

123 m

404 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 36 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 9,749 other buildings of the same Residential function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
170 Shinome Housing

122 m / 400 ft

171 Keidanren Kaikan

122 m / 400 ft

172 VNTA Tower

121 m / 398 ft

173 Kanda Square

121 m / 396 ft

174 Sumitomo Fudosan Shiodome Hamarikyu Building

120 m / 394 ft

175 Panasonic Electric Works Tokyo Headquarters Building

120 m / 393 ft

176 Asahi Seimei Otemachi Building

120 m / 392 ft

177 Liberty Tower

119 m / 390 ft

178 W Osaka

117 m / 385 ft

179 Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Head Office

117 m / 384 ft

180 Toranomon Kotohira Tower

115 m / 378 ft

181 Nippon Life Marunouchi Garden Tower

115 m / 377 ft

182 Tradepia Odaiba

114 m / 374 ft

183 Midtown East

113 m / 372 ft

184 Nishi-Shinjuku Mitsui Building

112 m / 368 ft

185 Kanda Neribei-cho district first type city redevelopment project

112 m / 367 ft

186 Sumitomo Fudosan Akihabara Ekimae Building

112 m / 367 ft

187 NEC Tamagawa Renaissance City Phase I

111 m / 365 ft

188 Nittochi Nishi Shinjuku Building

110 m / 361 ft

189 Shinjuku Green Tower Building

110 m / 360 ft

190 Queen's Tower C

109 m / 358 ft

191 Nihonbashi Muromachi Nomura Building

109 m / 356 ft

192 Kobe Port Tower

108 m / 354 ft

193 Islamic Development Bank Headquarters

107 m / 351 ft

194 Apple Towers Sendai

107 m / 349 ft

195 Yokohama Bay Hotel Tokyu

105 m / 345 ft

196 Daido Seimei Kasumigaseki Building

105 m / 344 ft

197 Mitsui Marine & Fire Insurance Co. Headquarters

104 m / 341 ft

198 HD Hyundai Global R&D Center

104 m / 340 ft

199 Yaesu First Financial Building

103 m / 339 ft

200 Mitsui Bussan Building

100 m / 328 ft

201 Akasaka Centerville

100 m / 327 ft

202 DaiyaGate Ikebukuro

99 m / 325 ft

203 30 Bideford

98 m / 322 ft

204 UNI-Center

96 m / 314 ft

205 Asahi Beer Azumabashi Building

95 m / 312 ft

206 Nakano Sunplaza

92 m / 302 ft

207 Dubai Chamber Of Commerce & Industry 1

91 m / 299 ft

208 Japan Housing Finance Agency Head Office

91 m / 298 ft

209 Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho - Kioi Residence

90 m / 295 ft

210 Sumitomo Fudousan Osaki Twin Building East

90 m / 295 ft

211 Beijing High-Tech Landmark Ding Hao 3 A Block

90 m / 295 ft

212 Goertek Global R&D Headquarters

90 m / 294 ft

213 Hibiya Dai Building

84 m / 276 ft

214 Lujiazui Century Tower 5

80 m / 262 ft

214 Lujiazui Century Tower 6

80 m / 262 ft

216 Aomori Prefecture Kanko Bussankan ASPM

76 m / 249 ft

217 AI W Aviation Station

75 m / 246 ft

218 Court Resident Tower

74 m / 242 ft

219 Yanmar Tokyo

61 m

200 ft

Please note that this height is estimated, based on a floor count of 14 floors. The estimation has been arrived at by analyzing 7,267 other buildings of the same Office function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of this estimation.
220 JR Kumamoto Station Building

59 m / 194 ft

221 Okinawa Cellular Forest Building

58 m / 191 ft

222 AI X Plaza

54 m / 178 ft

223 Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza Building C-2

41 m / 135 ft

224 Technology Innovation Center

34 m / 112 ft

225 Halo Opera House

26 m / 85 ft

226 Technical Education Center

18 m / 60 ft

227 Serenia District Tower 1

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228 Midora Residences

-

229 Osaka Maru Building Reconstruction Project

-

230 Park Wellstate Nishiazabu

-

231 Waterfall Residences Tower 1

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231 Waterfall Residences Tower 2

-

233 Serenia District Tower 2

-

234 Serenia District Tower 3

-

234 Serenia District Tower 5

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234 Serenia District Tower 6

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237 Serenia District Tower 4

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