Tokyo update

[Vapour]

Tokyo mid-town project (248m/2006)
30th November

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[Vapour]

December 6th

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[Vapour]

Akasaka Tower Residence 162 m

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[Vapour]

Toranomon Towers Residence (153.47 m & 112.60 m)

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(On the right, Shiroyama JT Trust 158m/1991)

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[Vapour]

New Tokyo National Museum (2006)

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8 de septiembre

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[Ookido]

The last tower is from the museum too?

[Vapour]

^Nop, it's a residential tower unrelated to the museum.

[helsnkiborg]

hi there. i'm from Vancouver, BC. i've been to Japan only once many years ago and hope to revisit it again in the near future. i read this article few days ago and wonder if anyone can tell me if the implication serious.


Tokyo REIT Index Falls, IPOs Delayed on Fake Construction Data

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange REIT index headed for a fourth day of declines and two real estate companies canceled share sales amid concern scores of buildings throughout Japan may have been built using falsified earthquake- resistance data.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it filed charges to the police against architect Hidetsugu Aneha, 48, alleging he provided data that violated building codes for construction of a total of 55 hotels and condominiums in Japan.

The number of buildings in danger of collapse in earthquake-prone Japan may increase as Aneha was involved in construction of 208 properties.

``The outlook for the market is really uncertain because we don't know how many more faulty buildings are out there,'' said Tsuyoshi Segawa, an equity strategist at Shinko Securities Co.

Living Corp., a condominium developer, canceled plans for an initial share sale on Dec. 14 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Mothers market. The company contracts most of its projects to Japan ERI Co., which last week said it failed to detect the faked data by Aneha. LCP Investment Corp., a real estate investment trust, said it will delay its Dec. 21 share sale plan.

``This is not a good time to sell our shares because investors could be misled,'' said Takekazu Imai, president of Living. ``Although we confirmed all the buildings we own are safe and meet the government's requirement, we do not want investors to misjudge Living Corp.''

The 25-member Tokyo REIT index fell 0.5 percent as of 11 a.m., heading for a fourth day of declines. FC Residential Investment Co. led the losses with a drop of 9.1 percent. Japan Single-Residence REIT Inc. lost 4.6 percent.

Aneha said on national broadcaster NHK last month he falsified earthquake resistance calculations and the amount of steel and support pillars required because he was pressured to cut costs by clients.

Attention

Nippon Building Fund Inc., Japan's largest REIT, said it owns mainly office buildings and it is checking to see if Aneha did any work related to its buildings.

``We pay special attention to a building's quake resistance ability before we decide to purchase a property,'' said Satoru Yamanaka, Nippon Building's chief operating officer. ``We also ask a third party to examine the building closely.''

The scandal may also involve a death and a bankruptcy. The president of an architectural firm that hired Aneha as a subcontractor was found dead on a beach in Kamakura, near Tokyo on Nov. 26. Police suspect Nobuhide Morita, 55, committed suicide, the Mainichi newspaper reported.

Kimura Construction Co., one of the contractors that built several of the Aneha buildings, on Dec. 1 filed for bankruptcy with 5.7 billion yen ($47 million) in debt, according to Teikoku Databank, which tracks corporate failures in Japan.

Japan, one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, is located in a zone where the Eurasian, Pacific, Philippine and North American tectonic plates meet and occasionally shift, causing quakes.

Japanese authorities rewrote building codes to improve earthquake resistance after a magnitude 6.9 quake in 1995 killed about 5,500 people in Kobe, western Japan.

To contact the reporter on this story:
Kathleen Chu in Tokyo at
kchu2@bloomberg.net.; or Yoshimasa Yamaguchi in Tokyo at
y.yamaguchi@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: December 6, 2005 00:44 EST

[Vapour]

^Indeed a worrying issue. This Aneha architect was heard yesterday at the Diet.

[Vapour]

Huge board of the World City towers (residential)

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The Tokyo Towers (residential) in Kachidoki

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192.29 m x 2

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From this spot you get a great sight of Triton Square complex (the tallest 195 m)

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[Ookido]

Sagrada Familia?

[Vapour]

Shin-marunouchi bldg, 200m/2007

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[Pedrillo]

Sagrada Familia?

I'm also wondering!! :eek:

[mrgazpacho]

Well, it is surprisingly tall. No wonder Gaudi stepped b ack to get a better view. Too bad he got run over and killed...

Actually, I was surprised by the comparison between Tokyo Tower and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. The TMG feels bigger when you are there - probably because of the bulk.

[Tom_Green]

Vapour thanks for all of your work. ;)

[Jose Luis]

Great job Vapour, quite a buch of projects u got, i like them all. Keep on updatin' us please.
The national museum its pretty big and the design its perfect. I bet its gonna be stunnin' inside.

[teddybear]

I felt so sorry to hear about falsified data! But aside from that, Tokyo is a very amazing place, it has many astonishing architecture, and it looks neat and clean!

[Mosaic]

Amazing updates indeed. Tokyo is really awesome.

[LordMarshall]

great updates :okay:

[Mosaic]

The Tokyo towers look awesome.

[Blackraven]

^Indeed a worrying issue. This Aneha architect was heard yesterday at the Diet.

Slightly OT:

So does this mean that buildings/structures built during the 20th century won't be able to stand up (if such would arise) and that only those that were built during the 90s to 21st century will be strong?

What can they do to improve/reinforce the old-school buildings?

[godblessbotox]

^^ almost all buildings can be retrofited. lots of buildings in LA were fixed up to survive and earthquake after the northiridge quake

[alex92]

@Vapour : Do you know who designed the new tokyo national museum ?

[elfreako]

Kazuo Sejima? Toyo Ito?

[Vapour]

^Kurokawa Kisho

[alex92]

Thanks

[Vapour]

ＧｒａｎＴｏｋｙｏ Project towers (205m x 2) by Tokyo station

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[Vapour]

Office tower u/c next to TBS headquarters:

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[Vapour]

Tokyo Midtown will be finished soon:

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Park:

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[onmyoji]

I like the Mid Town Tower...actually the Mori tower is more futuristic but Mid Town is taller...but maybe not for long time.

[Vapour]

Tokyo Mode Gakuen, taken yesterday:

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[onmyoji]

this is going to be the most futuristic building in tokyo!! the shape is simply amazing.
unfortunatly its high is not over 200 meter..

[Ryuhei]

Office tower u/c next to TBS headquarters:

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Hey, this office tower looks cool.
Do you have other pictures, is it finished now?

[AKIRAsan]

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[onmyoji]

woow basically it is done eh...great add to tokyo skyline....any news about the nishi shinjuku 3 cho-me project?

[south]

wow, that thing went up FAST :eek:
i worked near there not too long ago and it was just a hole in the ground.

[Mosaic]

^^must be because of technology.