Grupo Axxo
Projects
PCI Bank Tower
Highrise office building by Obata & Kasssabaum, with D. Luis Alfonso Gutiérrez, founding partner of AXXO, acting as responsible person in charge of the project.
- Client: Robinsons Land Corporation
- Type of service: Others.
- Status: Concluded
- Location: Makati
- Province: Manila, Philippines
- Type of building: Offices
This modern office of 30 floors and 45.000sqm was design as Headquarters for the Central Philippine Bank, the PCI Bank. As in many Asian countries in which it is not possible to excavate below ground to create parking levels in urban consolidated areas, the building starts with a complex podium of seven floors split into parking and installation/plant areas, with an office tower above this base. The tower coronation has a heliport jutting out, as part of the building image.
The volume concept for this building was the intersection of three bodies, one of them a curved one, a rectangular one with less height and a third one with more solid finishes. Although it was an isolated tower the plot in which it was built was in quite a consolidated area, so we had to solve the duality of building in a consolidated area a freestanding design. Finally the building was annexed to one of the nearby buildings and separated from another, gaining a third façade for the largest part of the tower.
The glazing closing on the façade design, as is common for most high-rises, was very carefully designed and detailed, combining several configurations for the vertical girders and several glazing transparencies to give the building further expression.
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