1322 Golden Empire Tower


1322 Golden Empire Tower is a 57-storey residential skyscraper in Manila, Philippines. It is owned by Moldex Land, Inc., part of the Moldex Group of Companies. Standing at, it is the tallest building in the City of Manila, and is the 12th-tallest building in the country and Metro Manila as well. The building has 55 floors above ground, and 2 basement levels for parking.

Construction and Design

The 1322 Golden Empire Tower was designed by international architectural firm Architecture International, in cooperation with local architectural firm GF & Partners Architects. Structural design was provided by Aromin & Sy + Associates, and was reviewed by Arup.
Other members of the design team are R.J. Calpo & Partners ; DCCD Engineering Corp. ; NBF Water & Wastewater Services ; Radian Technology, Inc. ; and I.P. Santos & Associates.
Consultants for the project include J.A. Shillinglaw & Associates ; Dr. Salvador F. Reyes ; Rolf Jensen & Associates ; Mel Consultants Pty. Ltd. and Rowan Williams Davis & Irwin ; and Horton-Lees Lighting Design Inc..
Technical services were provided by Philippine Geoanalytics and Watcon Inc..
Project construction team include TCGI Engineers ; Davis Langdon & Seah Philippines, Inc. ; and D.M. Consunji, Inc..

Location

The building is located along Roxas Boulevard near Manila Bay. The building block is bounded by three streets in which it also has access points, namely, Roxas Boulevard, Padre Faura Street and Leon Ma. Guerrero Street.

Features

Among the building's amenities are a fully equipped fitness center; sauna and private massage room; greens and mini-gardens; a swimming pool with bar and poolside party area, and a children's playroom
The building is equipped with high-speed elevators with control panels that prevent changes to floor destinations in mid-ascent or descent. It also has a CAT-5 UTP cables for voice, data and video communications that serve all information technology requirements; and lobby-to-unit video entry phone for guest identification.
For safety, the building has smoke evacuators in each floor designed to siphon smoke from the hallways in cases of fire, supported by automatic smoke/fire detection and alarm system with quick response sprinklers, and pressurized fire exits/stairwells.
The roof deck has a night-rated helipad, which can accommodate helicopter take-off and landing requirements in any time of the day.
The skyscraper is also equipped with a central Building Monitoring System with technologically advanced equipment that supervise the entire property's security features.