It is a “sister” building of Kurokawa’s iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower, a futuristic apartment house in Tokyo’s Ginza district and a representative work of the Metabolism avant-garde ...

As lead curator of design and architecture at M+, she was there to see one of 23 pods that had been saved by the Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, founded by former ...

The apartment room exhibited at the museum formerly was part of the Nakagin Capsule Tower. The tower was erected in 1972 by piling up a total of 140 residential capsules.