Urban Dock Park City Toyosu Tower A

A 52-story waterfront tower mansion built on a former shipyard site, standing along the canals of Toyosu.

Use

Residential tower

Area

Koto City

Completed

2008

Floors

52 above ground, 1 below

Height

179.49 m

Total floor area

approx. 121,951 m²

Developer

IHI / Mitsui Fudosan Residential

Architect

Sumitomo Mitsui Construction & Kajima JV

A 52-story building open to the sea and canals

Toyosu, Koto City, Tokyo. On reclaimed waterfront land where a shipyard once spread, a tower of 52 floors and roughly 180 meters appeared in 2008. Urban Dock Park City Toyosu Tower A is the supertall residential core of a large waterfront development undertaken by IHI and Mitsui Fudosan Residential.

Toyosu was for a long time a place of industry and logistics. As if to keep that memory, the development as a whole was given the name “Urban Dock.” Looking up at this tower from the water’s edge along the canal, you notice how its location — open toward the sea and sky — gives it an expression unlike that of inland high-rise housing.

A former shipyard as the starting point

Essential to discussing this tower is its starting point: the former shipyard site of IHI (formerly Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries). A vast tract of land that once supported industry was transformed into a primarily residential district, and Tower A carries its symbolic height.

Its scale — 52 floors above ground and one below — stood out even among the waterfront buildings of 2008, the year of its completion. The height is given variously as around 179 to 180 meters depending on the source, but in either case it has helped shape the Toyosu skyline. A defining feature of the development is that the tower is planned not as a self-contained building but as part of a mixed district that includes low-rise wings and retail.

A waterside once occupied by factories and warehouses turning into a place to live — the redevelopment of Toyosu is often cited as a symbol of how Tokyo’s bay area shifted its role from an industrial zone to a residential one.

Summary

Urban Dock Park City Toyosu Tower A is a tower mansion completed in 2008, with 52 floors above ground and a height of about 180 meters. Born within the clear context of IHI’s former shipyard site, it stands at the turning point where Toyosu changed from a place of industry into a waterfront place to live.

Walking along the canal and looking up at this tower, you sense how the city has layered something new at the boundary between sea and town. When you visit Toyosu, by all means look up at the sky from the water’s edge.