Where Are the 23 Modules Saved from the Demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower Now?

Noritaka Minami, "Facade I," 2011, Tokyo, Japan. From the 2015 Individual Grant to Noritaka Minami and Ken Yoshida for "1972–Nakagin Capsule Tower.". Image © Noritaka Minami, Courtesy of Graham FoundationWhen Kisho Kurokawa designed his now iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in 1972, the structure was meant to represent the core principles of Metabolism, experimenting with ideas of growth and change borrowed from biological processes. The emerging style in postwar Japan aimed to create buil