NYTimes Article: "Future Vision Banished to the Past"
Monday, 06 July 2009
NYTimes Article: "Future Vision Banished to the Past"
New York Times has an article about the rise and "fall" of the somewhat iconic, definitely historic and very cyberpunkish, Nakagin Capsule Towers: Future Vision Banished to the Past.
A rare built example of Japanese Metabolism, a movement whose fantastic urban visions became emblems of the country's postwar cultural resurgence, the 1972 Capsule Tower is in a decrepit state. Its residents, tired of living in squalid, cramped conditions, voted two years ago to demolish it and are now searching for a developer to replace it with a bigger, more modern tower. That the building is still standing has more to do with the current financial malaise than with an understanding of its historical worth.
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