The Fate of Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower Has Been Decided

The fate of the iconic Kisho Kurokawa-designed Nakagin Capsule Tower has been decided. Completed in 1972, just two years after Osaka's World Expo (what many consider to be peak Metabolist Movement), Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower was the joining of 140 individual prefabricated cubes that existed on their own but also as one when joined two their two large towers. Embodying the post-war movement to a T, this organic approach to architecture would eventually slow down due to the 1973 oil crisis whe...