https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-09/ ... /100974334
To the untrained eye, the Nakagin Capsule Tower may resemble a pile of old washing machines.
Made up of grey concrete cubes, each fitted with a singular round window, the building is certainly distinctive but also well past its prime.
Its colour has faded and rust coats the 50-year-old structure.
But what the building lacks in traditional charm, it makes up for in architectural significance.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower was built at a time when young architects, inspired by the rapidly changing Tokyo in the post-war Japan of the 1950s and '60s, imagined cities as living entities that evolved over time.
