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apartment building being dismantled

Metabolic Shift

SFMOMA acquires a Nakagin Capsule Tower pod

June 12, 2023

church surrounded by chain link fence

Biting the Dust

Demolition digest: A Venturi Scott Brown house, a Vermont church and landscape, and other (potentially) razed buildings

January 18, 2023

buildings with plants from midjourney

Triumphs and Tribulations

Here are AN’s top news stories of 2022

December 23, 2022

a worker and scaffolding on a demolition project

A successful failure: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

June 22, 2022

aerial view of buildings

An obsolescent masculine dream: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

June 21, 2022

net-covered exterior of famous capsule building in tokyo

Fala finds a home in Ginza: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

June 20, 2022

view of a tiny office space and bed with a large circular window

Images of a future from the recent past: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

June 17, 2022

detail view of nakagin capsule hotel facade

Metabolic memories: Remembering the Nakagin Capsule Tower

June 16, 2022

view of a capsule building in tokyo with highway in foreground

End Of The Road

Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower set to be demolished in April

March 30, 2022

black and white photo of a famous work of japanese metabolic architecture

Nakagin, Unplugged

Preservation efforts kick into high gear as the demolition of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower looms

July 8, 2021

black and white photo of the tokyo skyline

Metabolic Collapse

Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower faces renewed threats of demolition

May 12, 2021

The Nakagin Capsule Tower, an iconic collection of stacked concrete cubes

Tokyo Tear-Down?

Fate of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower still up in the air

August 27, 2019

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