Built a half-century ago as a futuristic architectural marvel that would permanently house tenants, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo's Ginza district failed to stand the test of time ...

As lead curator of design and architecture at M+, she was there to see one of 23 pods that had been saved by the Nakagin ...

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.

Perhaps one of the most globally iconic buildings of that era could have been found in Tokyo, in the form of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kisho Kurokawa’s 1972 Metabolist apartment block.

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 ...

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 ...