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.

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo was one of the most distinctive buildings of the 20th century, both for its oddball form and for its tumultuous evolution. A space station stack of 140 prefabricated ...

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—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 ...