Feudal merchant town lives up to its boast of being ‘better than Edo’

Photographers stroll around the area, play with their smartphones and do other things to waste time until the magical moment ...
New York Post

Inside a shockingly skinny Tokyo apartment building less than 2 feet wide at its narrowest point

The tiny homes inside this Japanese apartment building put cramped Manhattan studios to shame. Tokyo’s Nerima Triangle Building likely numbers among the narrowest apartments in the world, but it hosts ...
CNN

Trump takes steps toward demolishing four federal buildings, preservationist alleges

After demolishing the White House’s East Wing, President Donald Trump is now eying four federal buildings for the same treatment and is circumventing a key government agency with his plans, according ...
Nature

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...
Los Angeles Times

10 iconic Frank Gehry buildings that transformed their environments

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Frank Gehry, who died Friday at 96, challenged the notion that buildings needed to behave themselves — creating ...
Gizmodo

Literally a Map Showing All the Buildings in the World

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...
World Bank

World Bank’s Urban, Resilience & Land Global Department to Present at Yokohama’s Green Buildings Workshop

Cities worldwide are accelerating their efforts toward a decarbonized future, and improving the energy performance of buildings—particularly in urban environments—is a critical part of that transition ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Tokyo Gas Said to Plan Sale of Ginza Building for $191 Million

Tokyo Gas Co. plans to sell a commercial building in Ginza, Tokyo to Mantomi Asset Management for over ¥30 billion ($191 million), according to people familiar with the matter. Mantomi Asset submitted ...
The New York Times

A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?

A superstar team of architects and developers insisted on an all-white concrete facade. It could explain some of the building’s problems. A superstar team of architects and developers insisted on an ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Local Investors Create Fund to Fight Gentrification in Little Tokyo

A view of a new mural depicting Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani Credit: (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Los Angeles locals are pooling together funds to buy as much property in Little Tokyo ...
MacRumors

'A New Story': Apple Store in Tokyo Returning to Original 2003 Location

More than three years after Apple Ginza moved to a temporary location, the store is set to return to its original home in Tokyo's famous shopping district. Apple today announced its temporary store in ...
WUSA

DC AG holds developers accountable for Ward 4 condo building that sways in the wind

WASHINGTON — The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in D.C. secured a decision upholding a Department of Buildings order that requires a developer to fix faulty construction that caused a Ward 4 ...