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.

In 1988, upon moving to Tokyo, British architect Mark Dytham made a pilgrimage to Ginza to see one building he believed encapsulated everything he had imagined Japan to be: Nakagin Capsule Tower ...

Built in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was the benchmark of Japan’s post-war economic boom. Now, its future is uncertain.