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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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Field	Nakagin Capsule Tower 1970 · Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1950-2000 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1970	1950-2000
Place	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Place context	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Representative site: Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Climate	19°C · 13.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind	8°C · 14.0h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Hundertwasserhaus
Focus	Housing	5 works in corpus
Architects	Kisho Kurokawa	Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Linked context	Bureaus Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates	Notable works Hundertwasserhaus KunstHausWien Waldspirale Hundertwasser Toilets
Typologies	housing tower office	house museum adaptive reuse cultural building housing building tower
Materials	Not recorded yet.	brick plaster ceramic tile
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.	Brick, Ceramic Tile, and Plaster look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Ceramic Tile Plaster
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.