Robinsons Summit Center

Robinsons Summit Center
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Office
Location	6783 Ayala Avenue, Makati, Philippines
Coordinates	14°33′26.86″N 121°1′14.58″E / 14.5574611°N 121.0207167°E / 14.5574611; 121.0207167Coordinates: 14°33′26.86″N 121°1′14.58″E / 14.5574611°N 121.0207167°E / 14.5574611; 121.0207167
Construction started	1997
Completed	2001
Opening	2001
Owner	Robinsons Land Corporation
Height
Roof	174 m (570.87 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	38
Design and construction
Architect	Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum; W.V. Coscoluella & Associates
Developer	Robinsons Land Corporation
Structural engineer	R.S. Caparros Associates & Company
Main contractor	D.M. Consunji, Inc.
References
^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Robinsons Summit Center, formerly known as the JG Summit Center, is an office skyscraper located in Makati, 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, and is one of the tallest buildings in the Philippines.^[3]

Design

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.^[5] The building boasts of an unobstructed view of the Makati skyline from all floors. It 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.^[7]^[8]

Location

Strategically situated along Ayala Avenue near the corner of Paseo de Roxas, 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.^[7]

It is selected as a base of major call centers and a telecommunications company.^[8]

Amenities

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. In the 37th floor is the Philippine operations of Hewlett-Packard Philippines Corporation. 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.

References

↑ Emporis.com Robinsons Summit Center
↑ Skyscraperpage.com JG Summit Center
1 2 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Tallest Buildings in the Philippines (as of April 2008)
↑ HLURB website List of Makati Projects
1 2 R.S. Caparros Associates & Company JG Summit
↑ D.M. Consunji, Inc. Projects - JG Summit Building
1 2 Robinsons Land Corp. website Projects - Robinsons Summit Center
1 2 Philippine Business Magazine Volume 9 No. 1 - Towers of Power

External links

Makati CBD

Towers

Office	Ayala Tower One Exportbank Plaza G.T. International Tower Lepanto Building LKG Tower L. V. Locsin Building Pacific Star Building PBCom Tower Petron Megaplaza Philamlife Tower RCBC Plaza Robinsons Summit Center Rufino Pacific Tower The Enterprise Center The World Centre Tower 6789 V Corporate Center Zuellig Building

Residential	Discovery Primea Grand Soho Makati One Roxas Triangle Salcedo Park Twin Towers The Residences at Greenbelt The Shang Grand Tower

Ayala Center

Other landmarks

Education

Transportation

Roads	Amorsolo Street Arnaiz Avenue Ayala Avenue Chino Roces Avenue Gil Puyat Avenue Makati Avenue Paseo de Roxas

Rail	Ayala MRT Station Buendia MRT Station Buendia railway station Pasay Road railway station

Italics denote buildings under construction or planned.

Skyscrapers and towers in Metro Manila

Completed

Over 250 m	PBCom Tower (259 m, 2000) The Gramercy Residences (250 m, 2013) Discovery Primea (250 m, 2013) Shangri-La at the Fort, Manila (250 m, 2016)

200–249 m	Grand Riviera Suites (230 m, 2014) One Shangri-La Place Towers (227 m, 2014) Alphaland Makati Place (220 m, 2016) G.T. International Tower (217 m, 2001) BSA Twin Towers (215 m, 2000) The St. Francis Shangri-La Place Towers (213 m, 2009) The Knightsbridge Residences (210 m, 2013) One Rockwell West Tower (210 m, 2010) Petron Megaplaza (210 m, 1998) BDO Corporate Center (210 m, 2015) UnionBank Plaza (206 m, 2004) Greenbelt San Lorenzo Tower (205 m, 2009) Edades Tower (205 m, 2014) Golden Empire Tower (203 m, 2002) One Corporate Centre (202 m, 2009) Philamlife Tower (200 m, 2000) Summit One Tower (200 m, 1998)

150–199 m	One Central Makati (195 m, 2013) 8 Forbestown Road (194 m, 2013) Anchor Skysuites (193 m, 2013) RCBC Plaza Towers (192 m, 2001) The Infinity Fort Bonifacio (190 m, 2011) Tower 6789 (185 m, 2013) One San Miguel Avenue (183 m, 2001) LKG Tower (180 m, 2000) Marco Polo Ortigas Manila (180 m, 2014) The Shang Grand Tower (180 m, 2005) Pacific Plaza Towers (179 m, 2001) Atlanta Centre (179 m, 1998) Birch Tower (178 m, 2012) Aspire Tower (175 m, 2012) Robinsons Equitable Tower (175 m, 1997) One Roxas Triangle (174 m, 2000) Robinsons Summit Center (174 m, 2001) Paragon Plaza (174 m, 1998) The Enterprise Center Tower 1 (172 m, 1999) Greenbelt Laguna Tower (171 m, 2008) Greenbelt Manila Tower (171 m, 2010) The Beaufort (170 m, 2013) The Beacon Arnaiz Tower (170 m, 2012) Pearl of the Orient Tower (168 m, 2004) Discovery Suites (167 m, 1999) GA Towers (165 m, 2005) One Rockwell East Tower (165 m, 2011) Rufino Pacific Tower (161 m, 1994) Ayala Tower One (160 m, 1996) The Orient Square (160 m, 1999) Lancaster Suites One (158 m, 2007) Bellagio Golfview (156 m, 2010) Exportbank Plaza (155 m, 1998) The Rizal Tower (155 m, 2000) Wharton Parksuites (154 m, 2012) BSA Grand Tower (154 m, 1998) The World Centre (152 m, 1996) Salcedo Park Twin Towers (151 m, 1996) Pacific Plaza Condominium (150 m, 1992) Wynsum Corporate Plaza (150 m, 2000) One Legazpi Park (150 m, 2006) Joy-Nostalg Center (150 m, 2009) Forbes Tower West (150 m, 2011) One McKinley Place (150 m, 2004) Zuellig Building (150 m, 2012) The Columns (150 m, 2009)

Under
construction

The Stratford Residences (312 m, 2017)
Federal Land Tower (282 m, 2016)
Trump Tower Manila (250 m, 2016)
Century Spire (245 m, 2018)
The Skysuites Tower (220 m, ?)
Net Park (205 m, 2016)
UNTV Broadcast Center (200 m, 2017)
Torre de Manila (165 m, 2018)
JAKA Tower (?, 2018)

Proposed

Unbuilt

Buildings listed in order of height and with year of completion
Commons

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