Parks Tower, Office skyscraper in Nanbanaka, Japan
Parks Tower is a 30-floor, 149-metre skyscraper in the Namba Parks complex in Namba, Naniwa-ku, Osaka. The office tower was designed by Nikken Sekkei Ltd. and built by Takenaka Corporation, completed in 2003. Its plain rectangular shaft rises above the terraced Namba Parks complex beside it.
Parks Tower was built between 1999 and 2003 as the office tower of the Namba Parks complex in Naniwa-ku, Osaka. It was designed by Nikken Sekkei, Japan's largest architecture firm, together with the American firm The Jerde, and constructed by Takenaka Corporation. The tower opened in 2003.
The tower's nickname, "PS3 Building", dates from 2010, when people noted its resemblance to the original PlayStation 3 console. It was designed by Nikken Sekkei, Japan's largest architecture firm, with the American firm The Jerde, and built by Takenaka Corporation between 1999 and 2003.
The building connects directly to multiple railway lines through underground passages and is accessible from Nankai Namba station and JR Namba station. Access to the complex is designed to be straightforward and well-marked for visitors and workers.
Parks Tower was nicknamed the "PS3 Building" around 2010, when people noted its resemblance to the original PlayStation 3 console. The comparison points to the tower's stacked, dark-edged form rather than to any function inside it.
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