Roppongi Hills

Roppongi Hills
Roppongi Hills as seen from Tokyo Tower
General information
Location	Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Coordinates	35°39′36″N 139°43′48″E / 35.66000°N 139.73000°E / 35.66000; 139.73000Coordinates: 35°39′36″N 139°43′48″E / 35.66000°N 139.73000°E / 35.66000; 139.73000
Construction started	2000
Completed	2003
Opening	April 25, 2003
Owner	Mori Building
Height
Roof	Mori Tower: 238 m (781 ft) Residences B and C: 159 m (522 ft) Grand Hyatt Tokyo: 80.5 m (264 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	Mori Tower: 54 Residences B and C: 43 Grand Hyatt Tokyo: 21
Floor area	Total: 724,000 m2 (7,790,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Kohn Pedersen Fox

Roppongi Hills (六本木ヒルズ, Roppongi Hiruzu^?) is a development project in Tokyo and one of Japan's largest integrated property developments, located in the Roppongi district of Minato, Tokyo. The architecture and use of the space is documented in the book Six Strata: Roppongi Hills Redefined.

Constructed by building tycoon Minoru Mori, the mega-complex incorporates office space, apartments, shops, restaurants, cafés, movie theatres, a museum, a hotel, a major TV studio, an outdoor amphitheatre, and a few parks. The centerpiece is the 54-story Mori Tower. Mori's stated vision was to build an integrated development where high-rise inner-urban communities allow people to live, work, play, and shop in proximity to eliminate commuting time. He argued that this would increase leisure time, quality of life, and benefit Japan's national competitiveness. Seventeen years after the design's initial conception, the complex opened to the public on April 25, 2003.

Roppongi Hills cost over $4 billion and is built on a 27-acre (109,000 m²) site. The site amalgamated more than 400 smaller lots Mori acquired over 14 years.

Mori Tower is a 54-storey high-rise building designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox that houses an art museum, restaurants, cafes, clinics, stores, the offices of Allen & Overy, Barclays Capital, Ferrari Japan, Goldman Sachs, J-WAVE, Konami, Time Inc., Chevron, BASF, Lenovo, Baidu, GREE, BP, SAS Institute and Google. The Pokémon Company has its headquarters in the Mori Tower.