TOKYO – Demolition of an iconic apartment tower built 50 years ago in Tokyo’s high-end Ginza district began this week, despite efforts to save it. Nakagin Capsule Tower, which resembles stacks of ...

This spring, demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower's podium commenced, and scaffolding and noise barriers rose around the building. The spectacle drew onlookers, who stopped to take pictures. On one ...

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 ...

One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, will be demolished this month, according to the building’s new owners. The decision ends years ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza, Tokyo, former home and workplace of Filipe Magalhães and Ana Luisa Soares of fala atelier. The duo were the first building's first non-Japanese residents. (Filipe ...

The embodiment of a bold architectural vision of organic growth and extreme flexibility, the Nagakin Capsule Tower faces an uncertain future, despite its international acclaim and place in the history ...

The task is simple: walk or die.

THE NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER stands out from its unremarkable neighbours in Tokyo’s Shimbashi district. Made up of 144 identical cuboids, stacked upon and jutting out from each other, the modular tower ...

When demolition crews in Tokyo began to pry apart the Nakagin Capsule Tower last spring, it felt like the end to one of architecture’s more curious experiments. The tower, designed by architect Kisho ...

Located in Tokyo, Japan, Kisho Kurokawa‘s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower is one of the last remaining examples of “Metabolism,” a movement that emerged in post-war Japan that fused modern architectural ...