In post-war Japan, the founders of the avant-garde Metabolism movement sought to create architecture inspired by nature.

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

You can now rent a micro-apartment at Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower, a rare example of Japanese Metabolism architecture, via Airbnb.

But Nakagin isn’t the only structure conveying the legacy of Metabolism into the present. Capsule House-K, Kurokawa’s own countryside villa, was built one year after the Capsule Tower and will ...

A capsule, a concept 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.

Capsule House-K is one of Kurokawa's earliest works, and is made so that its capsule units are replaceable once they surpass their limited lifespan, like the metabolism of living cells.

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 ...

In the first part of a five part series on the legacy and demolition of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Ken Tadashi Oshima reflects on its history.

Gluon is combining data from laser scanning with 20,000 photographs to create an augmented reality model of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo.