The replacement tower is being financed by Accor, a global hospitality office. (Courtesy Accor) The replacement tower will host the Tokyo flagship of Pullman, a brand hotel. It will contain 145 guest ...

Located in the Ginza district, the 1972 tower was among the best-known examples of Metabolist architecture, a midcentury movement in Japan that recognized the impermanence of the built environment.

Whether one would want to live inside a Nakagin Capsule depends on a few critical factors: under what physical conditions and on who else lives in the building. The answer to the provocative question ...

When demolition crews in Tokyo began to pry apart the Nakagin Capsule Tower last spring, it felt like the end to one of architecture’s more curious experiments. The tower, designed by architect Kisho ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has officially acquired one of the 23 capsules salvaged from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, which was demolished in Tokyo last year. The Nakagin Capsule Tower was ...