nakagin tower
"The Nakagin Tower has 140 capsules, each sold for between £5.000 - £7.000 within one month of erection in 1972."
1972
"Well, in this case I designed the building to have its capsules replaced every 25 years, so it's ridiculous that 25 years have gone by and nothing has been done. That was a really stupid mistake. For example, satellites have to be replaced. If you don't maintain the building and replace its parts, you can't go on to sell it to somebody else, but this hedge fund comes along and invests in the building, telling people that "it'll be fine, it'll be fine, we can sell it on without changing any of the parts", but that could lead to an horrific accident. It's the same with cars: Honda makes excellent cars, as do Toyota, Porsche and Benz, but all their cars need proper maintenance and the replacement of parts. If you don't do that, you'll have an accident. This applies to cars and to everything else: everything is designed to be maintained. Everybody knows this, and yet you have the ownership of all these capsules divided between 140 people, which makes things really inconvenient."
1999
1972
"Well, in this case I designed the building to have its capsules replaced every 25 years, so it's ridiculous that 25 years have gone by and nothing has been done. That was a really stupid mistake. For example, satellites have to be replaced. If you don't maintain the building and replace its parts, you can't go on to sell it to somebody else, but this hedge fund comes along and invests in the building, telling people that "it'll be fine, it'll be fine, we can sell it on without changing any of the parts", but that could lead to an horrific accident. It's the same with cars: Honda makes excellent cars, as do Toyota, Porsche and Benz, but all their cars need proper maintenance and the replacement of parts. If you don't do that, you'll have an accident. This applies to cars and to everything else: everything is designed to be maintained. Everybody knows this, and yet you have the ownership of all these capsules divided between 140 people, which makes things really inconvenient."
1999
I like those, they are your collages right? Or found photos? I also like the fact that they are internal view, we often see the nakagin tower from the exterior, I think your plates should be always the interior of the room... think think think what is the re-brief? what happen in that month? what do you think you will take forward for your own thesis? think think. It is an exciting re-brief, try to open up some windows for your future project so it doesn't stay a beautifull exercise.
See you tomorrow
they're found photos :) but it really is amazing to see for the first time how they are changed by their owners!! thanks to google translate i had a chance to do a search in japanese (中銀カプセル) for the tower... thank you for the comment