Scholars and architects are still debating Metabolism’s legacy. The website Failed Architecture has noted that Nakagin Capsule Tower’s materials “have not withstood the test of time,” and ...

Ginza’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is a rare example of Metabolism, a post-war Japanese movement that applied organic biological growth to architectural mega structures. The building is actually ...

Capsule House K will ensure that the spirit of the Metabolism architectural movement will live on in the woods of Nagano Prefecture. Related News.

Capsule House-K was originally the property of the Kurokawa architecture office, but was sold off when the office went bankrupt. Kisho’s son Mikio Kurokawa, the head of Mirai Kurokawa Design ...

However, architecture using metabolism did not spread throughout Japan. There are only two structures that remain today -- including Nakagin Capsule Tower completed in Tokyo in 1972 -- whose ...

Gluon is creating a digital model of the Nakagin Capsule Tower "We are using 3D data to save the famous Nakagin Capsule Tower, which is being demolished in 2022, as a culturally-valuable memory ...

Since the early 1970s, Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule House K has been a worldwide marvel of Metabolist architecture. Now design aficionados and lovers of Japanese craftsmanship can get a closer look ...

On Tokyo’s already futuristic skyline, the Nakagin Capsule Tower stands out. But it may not do so for much longer. On the western edge of the upmarket Ginza district, the 13-storey building ...

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, SFMOMA’s curator of architecture and design, says the capsule is a major score. “It’s so rare to collect a 1-to-1 scale piece of architecture,” she says. The pods ...

Running from 2 November 2024 onwards, the M+ museum exhibition is titled 'Nakagin and Kiyotomo: Architectural Icons from Tokyo, 1970s-1980s' and features a restored capsule from Japanese architect ...