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Mar 06 2009 8 Comments

Dangerously designed dwelling?

With land in the Japanese capital both lacking and ludicrously priced, architects often have to conjure up designs to deal with such difficulties. Issues that on the whole do appear to get dealt with, just with decidedly varying degrees of success that’s all.

As, while living in a space that is confined or unconventional isn’t necessarily too uncomfortable, dealing with a front door that calls for climbing skills might be considerably less accommodating.

Tokyo apartment

A problem probably only added to by the presumably perpetual whinging of postal workers.

Categorized: Odd

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  1. Kesenaitsumi says

    3/6/2009 at 6:25 pm

    LOL…wonder how he/she get into his/her house.

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  2. Alexander Gieg says

    3/6/2009 at 8:45 pm

    The architect has made a house ready for when the oceans rise and Tokyo becomes like Venice. A forward thinking design.

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  3. Paul says

    3/7/2009 at 12:07 am

    Ha ha ha! Somewhere in Tokyo is a guy that goes to work carrying a step-ladder.

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  4. KYPMbangi says

    3/7/2009 at 12:25 am

    Haha, this would make its way into Failblog.org, eventually.
    Fail door

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  5. Mark says

    3/7/2009 at 6:24 am

    The ‘Door of Death’ awaits its next victim…

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  6. Ian says

    3/7/2009 at 7:31 pm

    That’s crazy. I can’t even begin to work out if that’s serious or not.

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  7. thejapaneseeye says

    3/7/2009 at 10:36 pm

    My girlfriends parents house is the same it has a nice garden gate with a six foot drop into the parking area, and they put barb wire on the top of the gate to make sure no one climbs over, it always amuses me when we pull up at her house, never even thought to photograph it!

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  8. Jamaipanese says

    3/21/2009 at 2:56 am

    lol, hilarious, I wonder if it is used

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