Robinsons Summit Center, formerly known as the JG Summit Center, is an office

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

located in

Makati Makati ( ), officially the City of Makati ( fil, Lungsod ng Makati), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. Makati is the financial center of the Philippines; it has the highest concentration ...

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. It is owned by

JG Summit Holdings JG Summit Holdings, Inc (JGSHI) is one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines with business interests in air transportation, banking, food manufacturing, hotels, petrochemicals, power generation, publishing, real estate and property ...

, Inc., and developed by its real estate arm, Robinsons Land Corporation. It stands at , it is currently the 9th-tallest complete building in

, and is one of the tallest buildings in the

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. The building boasts of an unobstructed view of the

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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

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performance. A rooftop master

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, while providing great potential for the building's communication systems, also serves as an architectural highlight to the entire building.Robinsons Land Corp. websit
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Location

Strategically situated along

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near the corner of

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, The Robinsons Summit Center is accessible and near every other major destination in

. Around its area are the Glorietta Mall,

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, and

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, educational institutions like the

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, the

Ateneo Graduate School of Business , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_affi ...

, and the

Ateneo Law School , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_affi ...

. It is also a few blocks away from deluxe hotels like Makati Shangri-La,

The Peninsula Manila The Peninsula Manila (colloquially Manila Pen or simply Manila Peninsula), is a 5-star luxury hotel in the Philippines. It is located on the corner of Ayala Avenue and Makati Avenue in the Makati Central Business District. It is located also i ...

, Dusit Thani Manila plus the service facilities of the

Makati Medical Center Makati Medical Center (MMC), also known as Makati Med, is a tertiary hospital in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines with more than 600 beds. The hospital was founded on May 31, 1969. The hospital is owned and operated by Medical Doctors Inc., a ...

and the Central Post Office. It is selected as a base of major call centers and a telecommunications company.Philippine Business Magazin
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Amenities

The building is designed to comprise only 6 units per floor with an average floor plate of only . On the 8th and 9th floors is a branch of

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, which is also open to non-tenants. In the 37th floor is the Philippine operations of Hewlett-Packard Philippines Corporation. The building also has a

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located on its roof deck, 10-level parking with over 390 slots, and is equipped with a state-of-the-art building management and communications system.

References

External links

Robinsons Summit Center at Emporis

JG Summit Center at Skyscraperpage.com

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See also

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