In late 2022, Ikko Yokoyama visited a warehouse in Chiba, near Tokyo, where salvaged Nakagin capsules, resembling pet Cyclops, awaited adoption. As lead curator of design and architecture at M+ ...

The capsules were initially assumed to be replaced every 25 years. The Nakagin group, a real estate operator, asked Kurokawa to design the building and sold the rooms as apartments. However ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful buildings, will be demolished The architectural icon has been under threat of demolition for two decades. Now ...

Demolition on Nakagin Capsule Tower started in 2022, and its capsules are now scattered all over the world. One capsule, for instance, is currently on view at Rome’s MAXXI in an exhibition ...

It follows the controversial dismantling of the Nakagin Capsule Tower due to the dilapidation of its structure, which was completed in 1972 to a design by architect Kisho Kurokawa. Site in "one of ...

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the world’s weirdest and most wonderful buildings, will be demolished The architectural icon has been under threat of demolition for two decades. Now ...

Perhaps one of the most globally iconic buildings of that era could have been found in Tokyo, in the form of the Nakagin Capsule Tower ... as the rights to its design are being auctioned.

There, the former house showcases its pure white exterior design resembling that of a ... at the museum formerly was part of the Nakagin Capsule Tower. The tower was erected in 1972 by piling ...