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apartment building being dismantled

Metabolic Shift

SFMOMA acquires a Nakagin Capsule Tower pod

June 12, 2023

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

Looking out of a window in cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 is an architecture critique with nothing to say

January 4, 2021

Image of green tower with hexagonal facade elements

South Brooklyn’s Metabolist-inspired green tower rejected over parking concerns

November 5, 2019

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

With a Fine-Toothed Honeycomb

Metabolist-inspired tower with hexagonal facade coming to south Brooklyn

July 5, 2018

Turning Japanese

Hans-Ulrich Obrist on architecture, art, and Metabolism

July 6, 2017

Burning Down the House

Fire may have wiped out archive of Skopje’s design by Tange, Isozaki, Doxiadis, and others

June 6, 2017

Relive the glory of the 1970 Osaka Expo, complete with space frames, Metabolism, inflatables, and geodesic domes

June 18, 2015

Grow-Life: A Metabolist Science Fair, or, Cross-Contamination

May 29, 2012

A Questioning Koolhaas

March 9, 2012

Quick Clicks> Pedal-Theatre, Reading Rem, Wall Street Logos, Ranking Creativity

October 11, 2011

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