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Another One Bites The Dust, Part 2: Nakagin Capsule Tower Posted by TreeHugger 1 year 18 weeks ago - Tags: 
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images by Jim O’Connell for The New York Times
Two years ago we covered the imminent demolition of the Kurokawa's iconic Nagakin Capsule Tower, where 140 prefab capsules are attached by high tension bolts to a central core. It is getting old, but is fixable; before he died, the architect proposed “unplugging” each box and replacing it with an updated unit.
Now Kisho Kurokawa is dead, and the building will follow shortly. Nicolai Ouroussoff of the
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