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One year after its dismantlement and a half century since rising high in Tokyo's Ginza district, the innovative Nakagin Capsule Tower is refusing to go quietly into the annals of architectural ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1988, upon moving to Tokyo, British architect Mark Dytham made a pilgrimage to Ginza to see one building he believed encapsulated everything he had imagined Japan to be: Nakagin Capsule Tower.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of squeezing into a Japanese capsule hotel, you can thank the Nakagin Capsule Tower for serving as inspiration. While the Jenga-like building was torn down two ...

The novel coronavirus pandemic has set back or even scrapped the latest plans for the Nakagin Capsule Tower building, the futuristic-looking, architectural marvel in Tokyo’s Ginza district.

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 ...