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The Nakagin Capsule Tower seen from the street below, its stacked prefabricated capsules receding up the corner of the shaft against a flat grey sky.

Photograph by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY 2.0. The stored file is the unmodified 4000×6000 original; responsive presentation may crop the image for layout.

PHOTOGRAPH Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0

Nakagin Capsule Tower

Kisho Kurokawa · 1972

WHY IT MATTERS

A compact icon of architecture imagined as replaceable, evolving infrastructure.

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