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Capsules from Nakagin Tower find new life at museums and accommodation venues Today 06:30 am JST Today | 07:17 am JST TOKYO
Designed by celebrated Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building is a once-futuristic, now retro-and-deteriorating nod at the Metabolism Movement which started in Japan following the war.
Inspired by the movement which fused architectural ideas with organic biological growth, the tower consists of two concrete shafts and 140 self-contained prefabricated capsules which can be connected and combined to create different layouts and larger spaces.
The building was originally designed to inspire further experimental structures that could fit into an interconnected supercity (an idea desired by Kurokawa’s teacher, and architect behind the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Kenzo Tange), but when the Metabolism Movement moved away from Japan after the 1973 oil crisis, the building became one-of-a-kind. Despite
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