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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	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1970	1980
Place	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Ginza, Ginza, Japan	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	22°C · 13.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind	23°C · 13.6h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Housing	3 works in corpus
Architects	Kisho Kurokawa	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	housing tower office	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	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 look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.