{"id":313,"date":"2008-01-07T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/07\/why-is-tokyo-so-ugly-but-how-can-it-still-generate-such-fantastic-architecture\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T23:57:38","slug":"why-is-tokyo-so-ugly-but-how-can-it-still-generate-such-fantastic-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Why is Tokyo so ugly, but how can it still generate such fantastic architecture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question for 2008, and here is my (easy) answer:<\/p>\n<p>1. Japan has the highest pro-capita rate of architects, of the 1.2million registered architects world-wide Japan has over 300,000,<\/p>\n<p>2. There are very few aesthetic regulations: anything goes,<\/p>\n<p>3. In the chaos architects work hard to make their buildings stand-out,<\/p>\n<p>4. Tokyo has some of the world&#8217;s most daring and cash-rich clients,<\/p>\n<p>5. Japanese construction companies (not only the major ones) are the world&#8217;s most advanced,<\/p>\n<p>6. Buildings have an average life-span of around 30 years,<\/p>\n<p>7. The city has been destroyed many times over (and most likely will be again soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question for 2008, and here is my (easy) answer: 1. Japan has the highest pro-capita rate of architects, of the 1.2million registered architects world-wide Japan has over 300,000, 2. There are very few aesthetic regulations: anything goes, 3. In the chaos architects work hard to make their buildings stand-out, 4. Tokyo has some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,20,21],"tags":[29,31,74],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-japan","category-tokyo","category-transition","tag-architects","tag-architecture","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}