Quote Originally Posted by blade_bltz
Modern (late modern, postmodern, high tech) Japanese architecture is amazing in my opinion. Many of the world's top architects right now are Japanese.
Could you give me some examples of buildings ? Th eonly notable ones in Tokyo are Roppongi Hills, the Tocho and a few towers in Shiodome.

Anyway, I was talking about housing, and most apartments and houses in Japan are ridiculously hideous.

When you remark that "aji no aru" art has disappeared in modern concrete constructions, I'd say that quite a number of notable postmodern buildings in Tokyo retain this trend.
Please give me some examples (+ pictures if you have).

Let me show you a few examples of what I am talking about :













The last one is brand new and is in a rather expensive district.

It's a far cry from regular European houses such as these :

Portsmoth, England (in a district entirely destroyed during WWII, and rebuilt recently) :



Typical English country house (could be in Ireland, Belgium, France, etc.)



Town in England (Cheltenham) :



Streets o Luxembourg city (similar architecture to the average German cities)



Apartments in Nice, France :



Note that I have only chosen residential buildings, not great historical buildings, palaces, government buildings, or the like. This is what ordinary (middle class) Europeans live in.