Tall & Urban News

The Urban Renaissance Agency, a semi-governmental housing corporation, is planning a 180-meter-tall office tower for the northern end of the former Aoyama Kitamachi Apaato public housing block in Omotesando. 

The lower floors are expected to contain retail and a hotel, while the upper floors will be office space. Construction of the 38-story building is expected to start in 2022 with completion in 2026-2027. 

The four-hectare site once contained 25 low-rise apartment blocks builrt between 1957 and 1968. These were Tokyo's first post-war city housing projects. Apartments ranged in size from 32 to 52 square meters, had no elevators, and the earlier buildings had no bathrooms. 

The southern end of the site has just been redeveloped into a 90-meter tall, 25-story rental-only apartment block and a 70-meter tall, 20-story public housing block. 

For more on this story, go to Japan Property Central.