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Tokyo Sights

Nakagin Capsule Tower

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  • Address
    • 8-16-10 Ginza Chūō-ku
  • Transport
    • Ōedo Line to Tsukijishijō

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Lonely Planet review for Nakagin Capsule Tower

In the 1960s architects such as Shinohara Kazuo, Kurokawa Kisho, Maki Fumihiko and Kikutake Kiyonori began a movement known as Metabolism, which promoted flexible spaces and functions at the expense of fixed forms in building. Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is a seminal work, designed as pods that could be removed whole from a central core and replaced elsewhere. His last great work, the National Art Center in Roppongi (2006), weaves undulating vertical forms into a strikingly latticed, organic structure.

 

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