Kurokawa Nakagin Capsule Hotel

I am so, so happy to hear that they have not yet finalized plans to demolish it. I love the tower and remembering that I almost wept when I wrote about Kisho Kurokawa’s death and the fate that befell the tower.
(I was an editor of an architecture+design magazine then, so I was understandably upset about the whole thing!)

Wow!

Wow, I want to go there and see it. I love the round windows.

Pikaland >> Have you seen it person?

I need to visit the structure before they tear it down (hopefully they won’t).

Simply love this! Love the 70’s visions of what the future would look like, so surreal.

love how futuristic the past is.

This is just absolutely amazing, like Diana said; the past was just so amazingly futuristic. I sometimes wonder if my kids kids are going to think that the early millennium years were just the funkiest most future driven time ever….. but then I think not.

Something like this is heritage and should be preserved for as long as is possible, to lose something like this borderlines on being a travesty.

This is just absolutely amazing, like Diana said; the past was just so amazingly futuristic. I sometimes wonder if my kids kids are going to think that the early millennium years were just the funkiest most future driven time ever….. but then I think not.

Something like this is heritage and should be preserved for as long as is possible, to lose something like this borderlines on being a travesty. .

Isn’t it funny how something like this, once the object of ridicule could have matured in our eyes into something really beautiful and exciting.

It never ceases to amaze me that people, especially planners, can’t see past the contemporary view and give designs that are ahead of their time, the time they need to show how important they are!

Dave, I haven’t seen it in person unfortunately. I thought that they had already torn it down — I hope to be able to see it the next time I’m in Japan. Let me know if you ever do see it!

that’s timeless design