Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by 20th-century Metabolic Architecture proponent Kisho Kurokawa and completed in the early 1970s, will be disassembled and demolished this month. The first ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Beside an elevated highway in Tokyo's Ginza district is what ...

In recent months, it has been less a matter of if Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, the famed Metabolist landmark designed by the late Kisho Kurokawa, would be wholly dismantled to make way for new ...

One of the great experiments in architecture is being demolished as I write this. The word “iconic” gets tossed around a lot in descriptions of architecture. But Nakagin truly fit the bill: a building ...

This month, visitors to the Museum of Modern Art’s first-floor gallery will be greeted by a hulking architectural relic. No mere dusty artifact, it represents one of the few surviving remnants of a ...

While much ink has been spilled over the perpetually imminent demise of Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, it would appear that the end is once again nigh… perhaps for real this time.

In a warehouse just outside Tokyo, nearly two dozen capsules plucked from the recently dismantled Nakagin Capsule Tower are undergoing restoration in preparation for a second act. They’re owned by ...

TOKYO – Demolition of an iconic apartment tower built 50 years ago in Tokyo’s high-end Ginza district began this week, despite efforts to save it. Nakagin Capsule Tower, which resembles stacks of ...

One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, will be demolished this month, according to the building’s new owners. The decision ends years ...

Located in Tokyo, Japan, Kisho Kurokawa‘s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower is one of the last remaining examples of “Metabolism,” a movement that emerged in post-war Japan that fused modern architectural ...