'for many of us who believe that the way we treat our cultural patrimony is a fair measure of how enlightened we are as a society, the building’s demolition would be a bitter loss. the capsule tower is not only gorgeous architecture; like all great buildings, it is the crystallization of a far-reaching cultural ideal. Its existence also stands as a powerful reminder of paths not taken, of the possibility of worlds shaped by different sets of values.'
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sad day in architecture. this building was pretty much the symbol of the metabolism movement. so much potential with metabolist philosophy, but for some reason the ideas were just never fully developed to a point where it was practical.
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