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 ...

The replacement tower is being financed by Accor, a global hospitality office. (Courtesy Accor) The replacement tower will host the Tokyo flagship of Pullman, a brand hotel. It will contain 145 guest ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the most famous buildings in Japan and a beloved piece of modernist architecture, will soon be demolished. William O. Gardner, a professor at Swarthmore College, is ...

Apartment rooms removed from the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo are being renovated for reuse, much as its famed architect had envisioned a half-century ago. Once touted as an architectural marvel, ...

Design has long derived inspiration from nature, but one of the most eccentric and captivating examples took the form of a 13-storey skyscraper in Tokyo composed of 140 prefabricated, 100 sq ft pods ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo could soon be replicated in both real space and the metaverse, as its original architect Kisho Kurokawa's studio is auctioning the rights to rebuild it. There are ...

As one of the founders of Metabolism, architect Kisho Kurokawa had a profound vision for his 1970s Nakagin Capsule Tower. At the time it went up in 1972, the tower was a radical vision of how people ...