All boxed up: museums to adopt and preserve Tokyo's Nakagin Tower capsules


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Demolition work at the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo started last month. Some of its 140 capsules will be shipped to museums around the world for preservation. Photo: Bloomberg

Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building tucked away in a corner of downtown Tokyo that is made up of boxes stacked on top of each other, is an avant garde honeycomb of science-fiction-era housing long admired as a masterpiece.

It’s now being demolished in a careful process that includes preserving some of its 140 capsules, to be shipped to museums around the world.

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