{"id":244249,"date":"2026-01-18T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244249\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:28:10","slug":"tokyos-development-boom-is-a-failure-pritzker-winning-architect-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244249\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo&#8217;s development boom is a &#8216;failure,&#8217; Pritzker-winning architect says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/society\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Riken Yamamoto claims megaprojects erode community life and risk leaving the capital with obsolete buildings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260115 Riken Yamamoto\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Pritzker Prize-winning architect Riken Yamamoto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. (Photo by Andrew Sharp)<\/p>\n<p>ANDREW SHARP<\/p>\n<p>January 18, 2026 09:00 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Pritzker Prize-winning architect Riken Yamamoto has warned that Tokyo&#8217;s current wave of large-scale urban renewal is failing residents and eroding the social fabric that once defined Japan&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Society Riken Yamamoto claims megaprojects erode community life and risk leaving the capital with obsolete buildings Pritzker Prize-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[40368,437,434,435,436,29501,438,4407,146,38336,85,8854,46,131129,21047,131128,38],"class_list":["post-244249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architect","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-boom","tag-design","tag-development","tag-entertainment","tag-failure","tag-il","tag-is","tag-israel","tag-pritzker-winning","tag-says","tag-tokyos","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}