Alastair Townsend

Tokyo architect and founder of BAKOKO Design Development.

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Corporate architecture as a financial indicator? https://t.co/7AiTxjKq1f Would make an interesting paper.

[justin mccurry @justinmccurry]

Trouble at Tsukiji: world's biggest fish market caught in controversy https://t.co/N02XjMX7Zy

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Britain's reliance on selling assets to overseas buyers like "pawning the silver to keep up appearances"

https://t.co/oJWHiqsuzx?

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Evolving Tokyo - Urban Land Magazine https://t.co/bdbCqMa8Dg

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

“Our business plan is to try to avoid community ­involvement” -not every day you hear an architect admit that. https://t.co/P27S7SoOWq

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

@rms80 Hope to one day expand the spline article into a larger project. Will try to incorporate those links when I do. Thanks.

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Nice FT article @kishakishi Seems like ages ago when we chatted about Japan's cold homes https://t.co/tY6v4yq4gb

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

@raurir Typos fixed. Thanks for reading and proofreading.

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Piece I wrote about splines got a little attention over the wknd. https://t.co/YRS6cRc3vm

[Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright]

Richard Rogers would do well to heed his own words- @ASH_housing protest flier at #StirlingPrize against NeoBankside

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

"The kitchen has a Miele dishwasher." NYT article is not exactly a ringing endorsement of Japanese property. https://t.co/HFEwGaYRTN

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Wow. London has completely lost the plot. https://t.co/0doXg5nfXl

[edwin heathcote @edwinheathcote]

Are you fucking kidding? https://t.co/HR0YbHmJgt

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Another month, another article about Japan's doomed housing market...

A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs http://t.co/VKkYTGatSI

[Néojaponisme @neojaponisme]

So many NY Times readers would be disappointed to learn that Japan destroys famous buildings because of profits rather than "the seasons."

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

Current stage of a farmhouse in Warwickshire using #WikiHouse. A small army of friends are about to descend upon it..

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

The death of Iowa's pork forest. Told in firsthand accounts. (I'm a former Iowan, but no relation to Ted). https://t.co/EnCOraQuMc

[Longform @longform]

An Iowan dreamed of an indoor rainforest. It didn't happen. http://t.co/ZdXlM2q9hS (by @petermrugg, @inversedotcom)

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Not the first instance of Olympic stadium bait 'n switch though. Here was London's http://t.co/4qtLOcrfZV https://t.co/6SWwZno9DI

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Would salarymen cramming trains every morning and stumbling home exhausted agree Tokyo's a liveable city? http://t.co/ck6seRV1p0

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

Paternosters – revolving lifts. With better tech (i.e. safety) an idea that could recirculate in modern buildings http://t.co/vF92CfeIIg

[Alastair Townsend @AlaTown]

China property market is "soft, but far from the collapse many are writing about" with 2x the US' home sales http://t.co/SpteKDExae