Fifty years ago, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was hailed as a marvel of organic architecture. Now its legacy lives on through 23 orphaned capsules.

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.

Kyle Chayka writes about the Nakagin Capsule Tower, in Tokyo, a prominent example of the Japanese architectural movement Metabolism that was completed in 1972 but that has begun to be demolished.

This week, demolition crews are moving in to dismantle one of Tokyo's most distinctive architectural feats of the last century. But residents and admirers of the Nakagin Capsule Tower say its ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower Building will be dismantled and regenerated as accommodation units and museum installations across the world.

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.

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 ...

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

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

Kisho Kurokawa (of Capsule Tower fame) designed one of the three capsule houses suspended over the Festival Plaza. An enormous fountain designed by Isamu Noguchi rained water down.