The end of Tokyo's ultra-modern Nakagin Tower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2022
- Completed in 1972, Tokyo's Nakagin Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa, was a landmark of modular architecture - 140 stacked, prefabricated apartment pods in the heart of downtown. But now the tower is being demolished, its pods time capsules of the ultra-modern 1970s. Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
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I’m not much for modern architecture, but this building is both fun & beautiful. How sad that this unique piece of history could not be saved.
I hear you and as a historic preservation major feel disappointed in this. With that said, architecture in Japan has always been something to be cycled in and out. Homes themselves don't hold their value the way they do in the US and UK. It a cultural difference.
Because it was ugly.
@@christinacody8653 it's not that real estate doesn't hold value in Japan but is regulated. Buildings are often torn down and rebuilt to bring them up to current earthquake standards in urban areas.
A few years ago, I was looking at buying a single-family home in Tokyo prefecture. A new modern home was going for about half a million including fees and taxes. In my neighborhood here in California, a similar home goes for about 1.5 million on the low side.
The first tiny house concept made into a condo format. So ahead of it's time.
That sucks. I'm glad they're not just destroying it. Giving them to different museums, that's a pretty cool idea.
I will always remember this beautiful building in the movie Blade Runner. One of my favorites
That's a shame, but it's nice they're going to preserve the capsules
It might be unsafe due to asbestos
I enjoyed learning a little bit about the Nakagin tower.
During my architecture lecture awhile ago, my professor was talking about his experience in Japan and so happy about sharing his experience in this building, and one of my classmate said it's just recently demolished, he just homuriously said "I'm so depressed now" to move on, but I felt his pain.
“……full of Asbestos”. YIKES!! The 1970’s interesting times.
I remember going passed the tower as a kid. I love that Abroad in Japan documented the history and interior of the tower!
Amazing!
glad the capsules are being reused elsewhere around the world!
I like the concept 😮
I wish I could have a capsule from that building, it would look good if I do a cyberpunk 2077 project on it then open it to public in case if people want to take a selfie or maybe Airbnb
It would make a great selfie space.
It's the Japanese version of the "Tiny House" movement!
Time is the best judge of arts.
Iconic. Was also featured in Transport Tycoon.
Thank God.
"Transport Tycoon" - one modern city building was inspired by it. great find!
Wow, maybe a not so modern day dj / music studio / study room / library space / sleeping / solitude / or thinking space, in an urban setting. Even with possible modular settings...
Fantastic architecture of the future.
Full of Asbestos.
good to know the capsules will be saved and moved elsewhere.
Mars?
Asbestos and all.
WOW YEAH✌
Very interesting, shame it couldn't live up to it's original concept. But I'm confused, report said couldn't replace capsules because they are full of asbestos but it's ok to give them away?
In the story, they said they would be refurbished which means if the asbestos hadn't already been removed, it will be during that process.
R.I.P. Nakagin Tower!!😎
A worthy concept to update and revive.
The reporter failed to define the modern movement was an era in Architecture from the 30's to 70's. The term "modern" has different meaning in that context.
Chris Broad did a video first or was it Tokyo Lens.
The re-use in the end makes for a happy ending. (which likely happened in this building a lot LAWL)
🙂👍
I made a pilgrimage to see Nakagin since it was in my art history book.
Nearby is the Ghibli clock th-cam.com/video/vaRlFxVoDAw/w-d-xo.html
The inside looks like something out of star war
Where do the coins go in?
Live in a dryer - today!
"Nothing is permanent except change"- Heraclitus.
Oh wow. It's like people were signing up to live in a prison. It's like someone asked "how do we keep all the dehumanizing aspects of brutalism, but add claustrophobia ?
That reminds me, I need to put my clothes in the washing machine.
What happens to these owners?
Asbestos poisoning
Meanwhile, this would be almost impossible to do in the United States as it would get designated as a historical landmark and sit there rotting away for decades while the area around it decays alongside with it.
I can't believe they're taking It down. It's THE hallmark of metabolism.
Still looks futuristic
Why weren't they changed every 20 years as planned?
what’s a “cap-sool”
😭😭😭😭😭😭
That’s a Future Tower?
Original crash pad
Tokyo continues its transition to a mass of giant square glass buildings, just like everywhere else.
The more diverse local parts of the world get, the less diverse the world gets.
Quick wash and tumble dry! 🤔☹️
arasaka
Mommy is stacked.
I'd drop one in my backyard, and use it as a pool house.
NEXT TIME MAKE SOMETHING RUSPROOF...LOL
The concrete aged like trash, glad they destroyed it !
An eyesore gone
washing machines
GIVE THEM TO HOMELESS PEOPLE!
Except they destroy homes.
How can someone mispronounce so many words in one video? Lol
Not surprising. Japan is also destroying traditional house and building for decade. They literally wipe out their own heritage 😂
If you go outside the urban areas, you will see more traditional and older construction. Otherwise, buildings are torn down or modernized to keep pace with earthquake-resistant technology.
What is futuristic today will be an eyesore in the future. Good riddance.
Good riddance. It was a fugly building.
I'm sorry this doesn't make any sense you can just rent or buy a room in a hotel
yeah ... try and get a room for under $1,000 .. a night
"Buy a room in a hotel?" On what planet?
@@rhuephus Tokyo nightly rates in US dollars from 137 to 389 based on what I’m finding.
if renting a room for say $300 a night, a year will already be about $109,500 USD. And you don’t own it.
@@hingedelephant many Japanese, including the homeless, use "net cafes" rented by the hour.
have to say its not a very nice looking building