Daiichi Properties tops off BGC office tower

DAIICHI Properties last week marked the toppingoff of The Finance Centre, the developer’s premium

started in June 2014. According to a statement completed in the second quarter of 2018.

“The Finance Centre was designed by world designed the headquarters of Facebook, Airbnb, and Uniqlo,” Daiichi added.

New York-based Thornton Tomasetti and Makati- based Sy^ 2 collaborated on the building’s structural engineering, “using performance- based design principles,” the developer said.

“We made a promise at the start of The Finance Centre’s development that we will build a world-class building that the local real estate industry can be proud of,” said Charmaine Uy, Senior Vice President at Daiichi. “To deliver on that promise, we saw to it that we strictly fol Gensler as well as the directions of our structural engineers,” she added.

Located at the corner of 26th and 9th avenues in Bonifacio Global City, The Finance Centre is designed around open spaces, featuring a 1,700-square-meter plaza with water features, as well as a sky garden above its retail podium. their own optimal work environments based on the needs of their business, Daiichi pointed out.

The developer stressed that it subjected the building to stringent structural evaluations, taking into consideration not only seismic resilience but also structural resilience to wind, which is particularly critical to high-rise buildings in a country that is visited by an average of 20 typhoons a year.

“Our buildings are designed to be naturally resistant to both earthquakes and strong typhoons,” emphasized Uy.

Daiichi Properties highlighted that even before its completion, The Finance Centre won developer also won the same award for its One World Place in 2013 and World Plaza in 2015.

The building is also LEED (Leadership in En Gold, Daiichi added.