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Nakagin Capsule Tower, the Glossary

The was a mixed-use residential and office tower in the upscale Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa.^[1]

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Former buildings and structures in Tokyo
Ginza
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Landmarks in Japan
Towers completed in 1972

Aircraft lavatory

An aircraft lavatory or plane toilet is a small unisex room on an aircraft with a toilet and sink.

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ArchDaily is a website covering architectural news, projects, products, events, interviews and competitions, opinion pieces, among others, catering to architects, designers and other interested parties.

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Asbestos

Asbestos is a naturally occurring fibrous silicate mineral.

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Asymmetry

Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection).

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Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content.

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Capsule hotel

A capsule hotel (kapuseru hoteru), also known in the Western world as a pod hotel, is a type of hotel developed in Japan that features many small, bed-sized rooms known as capsules.

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Chūō-ku, Osaka

is one of 24 wards of Osaka, Japan.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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CreateSpace

On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.

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East Asian tea ceremony

Tea ceremony is a ritualized practice of making and serving tea (茶 cha) in East Asia practiced in the Sinosphere.

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Expo '70

The or Expo 70 was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan between March 15 and September 13, 1970.

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Fumihiko Maki

was a Japanese architect.

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Ginza

Ginza (銀座) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi.

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Great Recession

The Great Recession was a period of marked decline in economies around the world that occurred in the late 2000s.

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Hiroshima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu.

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Holiday cottage

A holiday cottage, holiday home, vacation home, or vacation property is accommodation used for holiday vacations, corporate travel, and temporary housing often for less than 30 days.

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Intermodal container

An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japan Institute of Architects

The Japan Institute of Architects (JIA;, Nihon kenchikuka kyōkai) is a voluntary organization for architects in Japan, and an affiliated organization of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA).

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A jig is a type of custom-made tool used to control the location and/or motion of parts or other tools.

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Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.

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Karuizawa, Nagano

is a resort town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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Kenji Ekuan

was a Japanese industrial designer, best known for creating the design of the Kikkoman soy sauce bottle.

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Kisho Kurokawa

(April 8, 1934 – October 12, 2007) was a leading Japanese architect and one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Nakagin Capsule Tower and Kisho Kurokawa are Kisho Kurokawa buildings.

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Kiyonori Kikutake

(April 1, 1928 – December 26, 2011) was a prominent Japanese architect known as one of the founders of the Japanese Metabolist group.

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Kiyoshi Awazu

Kiyoshi Awazu (February 19, 1929 – April 28, 2009) was a Japanese graphic designer, active in the post-WWII era in the fields of poster design, architecture design, set design, filmmaking, and illustration.

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Kyoto International Conference Center

The, abbreviated as ICC Kyoto and previously called the Kyoto International Conference Hall, is a large conference facility located at Takaragaike, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Love hotel

A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sex.

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Mass production

Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.

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Megastructure

A megastructure is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably.

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was a post-war Japanese biomimetic architectural movement that fused ideas about architectural megastructures with those of organic biological growth.

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Nicolai Ouroussoff

Nicolai Ouroussoff (Николай Урусов) is a writer and educator who was an architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

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Paint

Paint is a material or mixture that, when applied to a solid material and allowed to dry, adds a film-like layer.

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Pied-à-terre

A pied-à-terre (plural: pieds-à-terre; French for "foot on the ground") is a small living unit, e.g., apartment or condominium, often located in a large city and not used as an individual's primary residence.

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Princeton Architectural Press

Princeton Architectural Press (now PA Press) is a division of Chronicle Books.

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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels.

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Resort town

A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy.

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Rustproofing

Rustproofing is the prevention or delay of rusting of iron and steel objects, or the permanent protection against corrosion.

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Salaryman

is an originally Japanese word for salaried workers.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois.

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Sharifi-ha House

Sharifi-ha House is a modular home in Tehran, Iran.

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Shinsaibashi

is a district in the Chūō-ku ward of Osaka, Japan and the city's main shopping area.

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Shochiku

is a Japanese entertainment company.

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Short-term rental

Short-term rental (STR) describes furnished self-contained apartments or houses that are rented for short periods of time.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Space frame

In architecture and structural engineering, a space frame or space structure (3D truss) is a rigid, lightweight, truss-like structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern.

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Studio Vista

Studio Vista was a British publishing company founded in 1961 that specialised in leisure and design topics.

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Takara Holdings

is a Japanese company based in Kyoto. The company is mainly involved in the production of beverages, food, printing and medical supplies.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.

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The Japan Times

The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Wolverine (film)

The Wolverine is a 2013 superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Wolverine.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Transport Tycoon

Transport Tycoon is a city-based pixel video game designed and programmed by Chris Sawyer, and published by MicroProse on 15 November 1994 for DOS.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower

Also known as Capsule Tower, Nagakin.

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Nakagin Capsule Tower, the Glossary

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See also

Former buildings and structures in Tokyo

Ginza

Kisho Kurokawa buildings

Landmarks in Japan

Towers completed in 1972

References