2 kisho kurokawa Hotels

In 1979, a Japanese architect stuffed a bed, a television, and an alarm clock into a fiberglass pod and called it the future of hospitality. Forty-six years later, the world is still copying him. It is not the flashiest hotel in Osaka. It does not have a rooftop bar or …

This historical building is an example of metabolism, a movement in Japanese architecture that drew inspiration from how living organisms arrange themselves. Metabolists viewed society as an organism, and the Nakagin Tower, built in 1972, is one of the few remaining examples of their work. Recently, there has been a …