If you have ever dreamed of living out the rest of your days in the cramped cabin of a small cruise ship—Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is for you. The Nakagin Capsule Tower may be permanently landlocked, but each 12-foot wide apartment equipped with a woefully small bathroom and a single circular window will surely give you the sensation that you are perpetually lost at sea. The Nakagin Capsule Tower was built in the early 1970s and designed by an architect named Kisho Kurokawa who was dedicated to creating a building which was the embodiment of a Japanese architectural style known […]

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