The Grand Prince Akasaka hotel on November 6, 2008 Passers-by in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district have

The Grand Prince Akasaka hotel on November 6, 2008 Passers-by in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district have started to notice something odd about a 40-floor hotel -- it has shrunk to about half its original height.
The Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka was built in the 1980s, a gleaming 140-metre (460 feet) symbol of a decade of extravagance when people almost had money to burn and Japan's red-hot economy powered the world.
Engineers reinforced the top floor with steel beams and then effectively lopped it off, keeping jazz egypt tours and travel it in place to be used as an adjustable lid that can be lowered down the building on an external support frame.
"By keeping this cap on top of the building, we can contain the noise and the dust significantly," Ichihara said. "Dust pollution jazz egypt tours and travel is cut by more than 90 percent, keeping the environmental impact very small."
The waste is lowered through jazz egypt tours and travel a central well on a pulley system that generates the electricity used to power lighting and ventilation systems, said Ichihara, further reducing the environmental impact of the demolition.
However, the glitter rubbed off Japan's economy with the bursting of the stock and real estate bubbles at the start of the 1990s. Luxury hotels gradually fell out of favour and some struggled to keep their guest books full.