JAKA Tower
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The JAKA Tower was a planned office skyscraper in Makati City
, Philippines
. It was designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
, and was to be the first highrise project of the then fledging JAKA Property Group. Construction started in 1996, and was scheduled for completion by 1999.
It was designed to rise 49 storeys high, with a height of 185.9 metres to its roof. Its design was to have cladded finishing on its podium, and external curtain glass walls on the rest of the building. When finished, it was supposed to be one of Philippines' tallest building at that time.
Construction was already in its 21st floor when it was halted, due to the negative financial effects brought upon by the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It was planned for works to resume in 2005 or 2006, but it did not push through. The only activity in the past 10 years was the application of protective coating on the exposed structural reinforcement bars of the building.
Makati City
The City of Makati is one of the 17 cities that make up Metro Manila, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines and one of the major financial, commercial and economic hubs in Asia...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It was designed by the architectural firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
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, and was to be the first highrise project of the then fledging JAKA Property Group. Construction started in 1996, and was scheduled for completion by 1999.
It was designed to rise 49 storeys high, with a height of 185.9 metres to its roof. Its design was to have cladded finishing on its podium, and external curtain glass walls on the rest of the building. When finished, it was supposed to be one of Philippines' tallest building at that time.
Construction was already in its 21st floor when it was halted, due to the negative financial effects brought upon by the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It was planned for works to resume in 2005 or 2006, but it did not push through. The only activity in the past 10 years was the application of protective coating on the exposed structural reinforcement bars of the building.