The "G. T." in G.T. International Tower stands for George Ty, one of the wealthiest men in the Philippines, owner of this building, and the chairman of MetroBank. MetroBank is the anchor tenant.

The GT International Tower was designed for a key site at the entry corner to Makati's primary commercial street, Ayala Avenue. The tower volume is composed of a series of taut glass panes which form a spiral, culminating in a faceted crown which marks the corner and forms the end of the avenue's street wall. This plane is lifted up at the building's base to reveal a plaza at the corner, where the structural columns emerge from beneath the tower's curtain wall to frame a canted plane at the 3rd level. Visitors to the main lobby can view the activity at street level through this plane, which is located at the top of the lobby escalators. The dominant surface of the tower is pulled away from the building's central volume at the intersection of Ayala Avenue and De La Costa Street, creating a vertical fissure in the tower's surface that provides a glimpse of the inner volume. A 10-storey vertical fin marks the tower's presence on the Makati skyline and provides a visual signature at the tower's crown.

The G.T. International Tower is the second tallest building in Makati City and the Phillipines.

The ten story fin marks its presence in the Makati City Skyline and provides a visual signature at the towers crown.

Technical Information

• Owner: George Ty
• Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Recio+Casas Architects, G.F. & Partners
• Other Firms:
• Federal Land Inc.
  
• Jones Lang LaSalle Philippines
  
• C-E Construction Corporation
  
• Flour City Architectural Metals (Asia) Ltd..
  
• Address: Ayala Avenue & H.V. dela Costa Street, Makati Philippines
• Construction Dates: Began 2001, finished 2002
• Floor Count: 47
• Basement Floors: 5
• Floor to Floor: 3m
• Floor Area: 41,000 sqm
• Elevator Count: 15
• Building Uses: office
• Structural Types: highrise
• Architectural Style: modern
• Materials: concrete, glass
• Height:
  
• 217.3 m to tip of glass fin
• 181.1 m to roof deck

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