Orient Square

The Orient Square Building
General information
Status	Complete
Type	mixed use (Office, Residential)
Location	F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue (Emerald Avenue), Ortigas Center, San Antonio, Pasig City, Philippines
Construction started	1996
Opening	1999
Height
Top floor	160 m (520 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	38 aboveground, 7 belowground
Elevator count	12
Design and construction
Owner	Daiichi Properties and Development
Management	The Orient Square Condominium Asso., Inc.
Main contractor	Sota Glazing Incorporated, R.S. Caparros and Associates
Architect	R. Villarosa Architects
Developer	Daiichi Properties and Development
Structural engineer	R. Villarosa Architects
References
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The Orient Square (officially The Orient Square Building or Orient Square IT Center) is a first-class, high-rise and tallest building along Ortigas Center's main road, F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue (known as Emerald Avenue) in Pasig City, Philippines. It rises 160 metres from ground level to roof, and is currently the 5th tallest complete building in Pasig City, and the 25th tallest building in the Philippines. The building has 38 levels above ground, and 7 basement levels. It will be a mixed-use building, both office and residential. Orient Square Building is currently one of the modern landmarks in Ortigas Center because of its architectural design and its one-of-a-kind curtain wall that glitters at night from the lights inside the building because of its transparency. The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) declared it an Information Technology Building in January 2006.

The building has a 6-level concrete podium as its base, while its main body is fully clad with aluminium unitized curtain wall. It has a distinctive design of having multiple corners, especially on the top floors, making it easily recognizable among the buildings in Ortigas Center.

Location

The building is stands along F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue, formerly known as Emerald Avenue. At the back of the building is Ruby Street, and is within the Ortigas Center central business district. It is a near blocks from other major office and residential buildings, hotels (Discovery Suites and Oakwood Premier), bars (Metrowalk and El Pueblo de Manila) and restaurants (El Pueblo de Manila) in the area, as well as large shopping malls (The Podium, SM Megamall, St. Francis Square, Robinsons Galleria and Shangri-La Plaza) and other major landmarks.

The front of the building facing to the east, which lies F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue and Taipan Place. It serves the main lobby of the building. At the back lies Ruby Street facing to the west, it also serves the basement car parking entrance and exit.

Amenities and features

• Building Features

Its features include a fully unitized curtain wall, a computerized and comprehensive building and facility management, centralized cooling system with individual control, powerful communication facilities using fiber optics and digital technology and provision for LAN/DATA and efficient lift management. The building use as office, commercial and residential use.

• Building Amenities

Its amenities include 7-level basements for vehicle parking, 12 high-speed elevators, including two below-ground elevators and one full-speed service lift, also has 6-level concrete podium as its base, helipad on the rooftop, skylounge and observatory near at the top, function rooms, main lobby, security gates, convenient store, food and bake shop, and banks. The building has also its own food court and restaurant area located at 6th floor. Just outside the building crossing Ruby Street, located some of high-end, first-class restaurants, bars and fast-food chains. Daiichi Properties' the Taipan Place which located across F. Ortigas Jr. Avenue, just in front of the building, is the sister building of Orient Square.

Major tenants

• Standard Chartered Bank
• Citibank
• Emerson Electric (Asia) Limited
• Emerson Network Power
• Seven Eleven
• TÜV SÜD Phils, Inc.
• VeriFone Global Development Phils.
• Banco de Oro
• Sunlife of Canada
• Axis Global Interactive
• Orchids CyberTech, Inc.
• Pan De Manila
• PIMS Company
• Sodexho Pass Incorporated
• China State Construction Engineering Corp.
• Leverage Systems Technologies, Inc.
• InventAsia Limited
• InfoComm Communications Network, Inc.
• NexTel Communications
• E-Pacific Contact Global Center
• Exxon Mobil
• Aventis Pharma

Gallery

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  Orient Square's multiple corner curtain wall.

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  Orient Square view from the ground.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in the Philippines

References

1. ^ http://www.daiichi.com.ph/dai-orient.htm
2. ^ http://www.peza.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116&Itemid=161&nature=IT%20Parks/Centers

External links

• Orient Square Building at Wikimapia Forums
• Orient Square Building Daiichi Properties Inc.