Best Photos of the Day

Installation view of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from July 10, 2025, through July 12, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.

Noritaka Minami. A503 I, from the series 1972 (2010-22). 2017. Archival pigment print, 20 x 25" (101.6 x 127 cm) © Noritaka Minami.

Images from Nakagin Capsule Style (Tokyo: Soshisha, 2020), showing Wakana Nitta (aka Cosplay Koe-chan) in her capsule, which she uses as a DJ-booth. Courtesy Tatsuyuki Maeda / The Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, Tokyo, Japan.

Installation view of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from July 10, 2025, through July 12, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.

Noritaka Minami. B1004 I, from the series 1972 (2010-22). 2011. Archival pigment print, 20 x 25" (101.6 x 127 cm) © Noritaka Minami.

Kisho Kurokawa, Architect & Associates (Tokyo, est. 1962). Capsule A1305 from the Nakagin Capsule Tower. 1970-72; restored 2022-23. Steel, wood, paint, plastics, cloth, polyurethane, glass, ceramic, and electronics, 8' 4 3/8" x 8' 10 5/16" x 13' 10 9/16" (255 x 270 x 423 cm).The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Alice and Tom Tisch, and the Nakagin Capsule Tower Preservation and Restoration Project, Tokyo.

Night time at the Nakagin Capsule Tower, with Mr. Takayuki Sekine seen through the window of capsule B1004, 2016. © Jeremie Souteyrat.

Kisho Kurokawa, Architect & Associates (Tokyo, est. 1962). Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo. 1970-72. Exterior view. 1972. Photograph: Tomio Ohashi.

Installation view of The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, from July 10, 2025, through July 12, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Dorado.