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2007-03-27T00:00:00

The original capsules are hoisted up and hung off the concrete core. Above right: welding the exterior steel plate over the steel frame and asbestos fire protection.

Fire-resistant steel is key to Kisho Kurokawa’s plans to renew the modules of his 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower while its concrete cores remain.

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