As lead curator of design and architecture at M+ ... Kurokawa's ideas also gave birth to the world's first capsule hotel. New Japan Umeda continues to offer budget accommodation in Osaka.

The iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower has been in danger of demolition for ... and completed in 1972 is something of a symbol for metabolism, the post-war Japanese architecture movement that explored ...

The capsules will be handed over to museums, hotels and other institutions in and outside Japan for ... designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower based on the “Metabolism” architecture movement ...

A special ventilation system keeps the pod cool. Capsule hotels started in Japan in 1979 but are now popular across the world. Produced by Charlie Floyd More from Video Hostels are communal places ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Capsule hotels — hotels that feature futuristic pods instead of rooms — are a Japanese staple. Said to originally have been developed for traveling businessmen ...

Adaptability was a key focus of metabolism, an architecture movement founded in Japan between the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nakagin Capsule Tower was one of few the remaining buildings from the era.

A Japanese capsule carrying the first samples of asteroid subsurface shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before successfully landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a ...

Having first been approached by the Japanese brand to provide some denim jackets to customise for a shoot some years earlier, the capsule collection saw Sacai ... draw on the aesthetics of ‘staircase ...