Tatsuyuki Maeda, 56, head of the Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, said almost 200 inquiries came in from both in and outside Japan over the fate of apartments separated ...

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 Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, founded by former ...

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.

It is a “sister” building of Kurokawa’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, a futuristic apartment house in Tokyo’s Ginza district and a representative work of the Metabolism avant-garde ...

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 ...