{"id":38754,"date":"2021-11-09T11:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/decaying-but-beloved-tokyos-capsule-tower-faces-uncertain-future"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T02:11:38","slug":"decaying-but-beloved-tokyos-capsule-tower-faces-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38754","title":{"rendered":"Decaying but beloved, Tokyo\u2019s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it was built in 1972, it was the capital\u2019s only example of the metabolism architectural movement \u2013 but time has caught up with the structure<\/p>\n<p>It is an architectural curiosity that attracts admirers from around the world, an asymmetric stack of identical concrete boxes in a neighbourhood dominated by the gleaming glass edifices of corporate Japan.<\/p>\n<p>But after occupying a corner of Tokyo\u2019s Ginza district for almost half a century, the Nakagin Capsule Tower faces an uncertain future.<\/p>\n<p>Stacks of asymmetric concrete cubes make up the Nakagin Capsule Tower exterior in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/09\/decaying-but-beloved-tokyos-capsule-tower-faces-uncertain-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it was built in 1972, it was the capital\u2019s only example of the metabolism architectural movement \u2013 but time has caught up with the structureIt is an architectural curiosity that attracts admirers from around the world, an asymmetric stack of ident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465,91,41,71,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38787,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38754\/revisions\/38787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}