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Nakagin Capsule Tower in Ginza, Japan

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Nakagin Capsule Tower

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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Nakagin Capsule TowerNakagin Capsule Tower

1970 · Ginza, Ginza, Japan

Philip JohnsonPhilip Johnson

1949 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19701949
PlaceGinza, Ginza, JapanNew York, New York, United States
Place contextGinza, Ginza, JapanRepresentative site: Boston, Boston, United States
Climate14°C · 13.3h daylight · 3 km/h wind5°C · 13.7h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Boston Central Library
FocusHousing42 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kisho Kurokawa
  • Philip Johnson
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates

Notable works

  • Boston Central Library
  • Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
  • Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)
  • Rockefeller Guest House
Typologies
  • housing
  • tower
  • office
  • library
  • museum
  • education
  • house
  • landscape
  • performance venue
  • gallery
  • campus building
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • glass
  • brick
  • steel
  • concrete
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.

Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded21 of 21 recorded works are publicly accessible
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