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 ...

Located in the Ginza district, the 1972 tower was among the best-known examples of Metabolist architecture, a midcentury movement in Japan that recognized the impermanence of the built environment.

When demolition crews in Tokyo began to pry apart the Nakagin Capsule Tower last spring, it felt like the end to one of architecture’s more curious experiments. The tower, designed by architect Kisho ...

A capsule from Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) being removed in 2022 (photo by Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, all courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ...

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The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful buildings, will be demolished The architectural icon has been under threat of demolition for two decades. Now, it's coming to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building tucked away in a corner of downtown Tokyo that is made up of boxes stacked on top of each other, is an avant-garde honeycomb of science-fiction-era ...

TOKYO—When Kisho Kurokawa imagined the city of the future, he saw people ever more on the move, a society changing faster than ever before. Working in Tokyo in the 1960s and 70s, the architect ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has officially acquired one of the 23 capsules salvaged from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, which was demolished in Tokyo last year. The Nakagin Capsule Tower was ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, is an exemplary work of post-war Japanese architectural movement Metabolism. Today, however, this historic building is in ...