What’s cozier than a rounded window with a built-in seat? Sometimes circular, octagonal, or even more organically shaped, window nooks with curves allow you to read, daydream, or nap comfortably in an ...

TOKYO – Demolition of an iconic apartment tower built 50 years ago in Tokyo’s high-end Ginza district began this week, despite efforts to save it. Nakagin Capsule Tower, which resembles stacks of ...

Tucked amid the expensive apartments and high-end shopping centers of Tokyo’s fashionable Ginza district is an oddity of architecture and a vision for a future that never was. Nakagin Capsule Tower ...

In this episode, we explore a Tiny Japanese Capsule Apartment, a unique living concept in Japan. While Capsule Hotels are well-known, this is the first look at a Capsule Apartment. Join us as we ...

One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, will be demolished this month, according to the building’s new owners. The decision ends years ...

Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world—but also home to some of the smallest living spaces you’ll ever see. From tiny apartments to capsule hotels and internet cafés, this journey reveals how ...

Capsule Plaza, which is run by the Capsule design platform and magazine, chose Tokyo for its first international event because of the ubiquity of good design in Japan. The publication also takes its ...

They had portholes, cutting edge mod cons – and the ultra luxurious models even came with a free calculator. As Japan’s beloved Nakagin Capsule Tower resurfaces, we celebrate an architectural marvel ...

Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by 20th-century Metabolic Architecture proponent Kisho Kurokawa and completed in the early 1970s, will be disassembled and demolished this month. The first ...

Twenty years ago, Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 was a place where Tokyo’s businessmen could get a quick night’s sleep after a long day at the office. Today it’s an apartment building for those left ...