Capsule Tower News Today

Meet the winners of our 12th annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest, which honors the legacy of hand drawing in architectural design.

One year after its dismantlement and a half a century since rising high in Tokyos Ginza district, the innovative Nakagin Capsule Tower is refusing to go quietly into the annals of architectural history. 

Housing complexes are homes built together as a single development. Here we list five sites that serve as a record of architectural and planning history.

SFMOMA selected the saved and restored capsule A1302 to include as part of its japanese architecture, design, and photography collections.

SFMOMA acquires a prized capsule from metabolist architect Kisho Kurokawa's legendary building. Plus

One of Tokyo’s most famous buildings was dismantled in April due to asbestos fears. Now 23 of the capsules have been saved for posterity

Photographer Noritaka Minami spent over a decade documenting the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo before it was demolished last month.

After a 15-year effort to save Toyko's Nakagin Capsule Tower, developers are demolishing the building. But Nakagin's final residents believe it's a mistake.

Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building tucked away in a corner of downtown Tokyo that is made up of boxes stacked on top of each other, is an avant-garde honeycomb of science-fiction-era housing long admired as a masterpiece

The first one will be removed in the next few weeks