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 ...

Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by 20th-century Metabolic Architecture proponent Kisho Kurokawa and completed in the early 1970s, will be disassembled and demolished this month. The first ...

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 ...

In recent months, it has been less a matter of if Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, the famed Metabolist landmark designed by the late Kisho Kurokawa, would be wholly dismantled to make way for new ...

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 ...