Nakagin Capsule Tower is a building in downtown Tokyo made of boxes stacked on top of each other. It is being carefully demolished in a process that includes preserving some of its 140 capsules to be shipped to museums around the world.
Skyscrapers have popped up nearby, dwarfing Nakagin. A developer took over the property in 2021.
Appliances and shelves are built into the walls. A desk pops out in one section. In another is a Sony reel-to-reel tape recorder, state-of-the-art electronics of the 1970s that’s historical memorabilia now like the building itself. He and others had been working together since 2014 to save Nakagin, first to prevent its destruction and rebuild it, but eventually to hand down its legacy as an artwork. The project raised money through crowd-funding and put out a book, complete with photos, in March, titled, “Nakagin Capsule Tower: The Last Record.”
But metabolist designs did not win wide acceptance among real estate developers, construction companies or consumers, who all turned to more conservative prefabricated housing, said Gardner, who wrote “The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction.”
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