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Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese modern architecture, prefab housing, stackable prefabOur friend Lloyd Alter at Treehugger has posted an interesting and thoughtful article about Japan's famed Capsule Tower (and its scheduled demolition!), an iconic structure and unique archetype for contemporary prefab architecture. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, the Capsule Tower demonstrates the application of scalable and stackable modular architectural strategies.1
Capsule Tower, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese modern architecture, prefab housing, stackable prefab 2Our friend Lloyd Alter at Treehugger has posted an interesting and thoughtful article about Japan's famed Capsule Tower (and its scheduled demolition!), an iconic structure and unique archetype for contemporary prefab architecture. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, the Capsule Tower demonstrates the application of scalable and stackable modular architectural strategies.2
Capsule Tower, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese modern architecture, prefab housing, stackable prefab 3Our friend Lloyd Alter at Treehugger has posted an interesting and thoughtful article about Japan's famed Capsule Tower (and its scheduled demolition!), an iconic structure and unique archetype for contemporary prefab architecture. Designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, the Capsule Tower demonstrates the application of scalable and stackable modular architectural strategies.3
