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Kisho Kurokawa in front of the completed Nakagin Capsule Tower, 1974. (Tomio Ohashi/Courtesy MoMA) The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower displays Capsule A1305 and 45 pieces of contextual ...

The end has been perpetually nigh—for at least over the past decade or so—for Kirsho Kurokawa’s decaying 1972 Metabolist landmark, the Nakagin Capsule Tower. But as word of renewed threats of ...

Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by 20th-century Metabolic Architecture proponent Kisho Kurokawa and completed in the early 1970s, will be disassembled and demolished this month. The first ...

Photographer Noritaka Minami spent over a decade documenting the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo on large format cameras before it was demolished last month. The Nakagin Capsule Tower, completed ...

TOKYO – Demolition of an iconic apartment tower built 50 years ago in Tokyo’s high-end Ginza district began this week, despite efforts to save it. Nakagin Capsule Tower, which resembles stacks of ...

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The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the most famous buildings in Japan and a beloved piece of modernist architecture, will soon be demolished. William O. Gardner, a professor at Swarthmore College, is ...

One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, will be demolished this month, according to the building’s new owners. The decision ends years ...

THE NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER stands out from its unremarkable neighbours in Tokyo’s Shimbashi district. Made up of 144 identical cuboids, stacked upon and jutting out from each other, the modular tower ...