TOKYO, JUNE 26 - Taking a morning stroll, my wife recognizes a funky old building as the Kabuki Theater.

"It was a really funky building," he said.

During the first renaissance, a generation of young hipsters discovered Over-the-Rhine, drawn by sturdy, funky and affordable buildings just a five-minute walk from downtown.

M Map This funky, hamster-house-looking building has two theaters and a cabaret room hosting contemporary plays, musicals and other events.

I ... Connie, I've found this darling place on Russian Hill on the third floor of the funkiest old building . . . and I can move in tomorrow.

Go all caveman-like and join the UTEP crowd over a serious plate of ribs in this funky little A-frame building with typical campus-adjacent decor.

J Map Of all the funky buildings on the MIT campus, none has received more attention than this avant-garde edifice that was designed by architectural legend Frank Gehry.

And, they are clustering in funky older buildings in SoHo and Midtown South that are vacant in good part because interactive technology rendered them obsolete.

When they saw the property the next day with Liz Dworkin of Eychner Associates, who says she specializes in "weird, funky buildings," they could see that it would have to be gutted.