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1970 · Ginza, Ginza, Japan

Nakagin Capsule Tower image

Former building in Ginza, Tokyo

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Nakagin Capsule Tower

Ginza, Ginza, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Former building in Ginza, Tokyo

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Comparison

Field	Nakagin Capsule Tower 1970 · Ginza, Ginza, Japan	David Chipperfield Architects Doha, Qatar
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1970	Unrecorded
Place	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Doha, Qatar
Place context	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Representative site: St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
Climate	22°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 km/h wind	10°C · 13.4h daylight · 15 km/h wind · via Saint Louis Art Museum
Focus	Housing	13 works in corpus
Architects	Kisho Kurokawa	David Chipperfield
Linked context	Bureaus Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates	Notable works Saint Louis Art Museum Foundation E. G. Bührle 1 Cobham Mews Studios Ciutat de la Justícia de Barcelona i l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Typologies	housing tower office	museum landscape office building house gallery hospitality hotels
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone glass
Carbon signals	housing, tower, and office gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.