Hotel Architecture | Shinjuku · Tokyu Kabukicho Tower 🏙️✨

🎨 In the newly opened Tokyu Kabukicho Tower in Shinjuku, the firm was in charge of the building’s exterior facade design and some interior spaces (the ground-floor passage and entrance, the first-floor lounge of the Bell Star Hotel, and the theater foyers on floors 6-9). ✨ 🎡Before the Kabukicho district was established, this area was a marshland, and even now, the Benten Shrine still stands here. 🌿 🌈 After the war, through the visionary idea of repurposing the old exposition site for urban development, the area was revived by private efforts. ✨ 🎡 As a unique high-rise building in Japan that focuses on hotels and entertainment facilities without office spaces, the designer pondered what kind of presence it should embody. 🌟 🎁 The final concept was inspired by a fountain symbolizing the spirit of the people emerging from the marshland of Kabukicho. A fountain has no fixed form; without the force from the underground, it would vanish in an instant. ✨ 🎡 This illusory and flickering posture will become the new symbol of the district and also represents a modern revival of the fountain that once stood in the "Cinema City Plaza." 🌈 #Tokyo 🌇