A preserved and newly restored pod from Japan's iconic Nagakin Capsule Tower is now on view at MoMA in New York.

Experience the Nakagin Capsule Tower's journey at MoMA, featuring original drawings and a restored capsule from July 2025 to 2026.

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 ...

I first saw the Nakagin Capsule Tower during the summer of 1992, when I would pass by the iconic Metabolist work by Kisho Kurokawa (1934–2007) on my daily commute as an architectural intern in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.