SHIROIYA Hotel
SHIROIYA HOTEL
Sou Fujimoto Architects
ARCHITECTS
Sou Fujimoto Architects
ARCHITECTURE AND INTERIOR DESIGN
Sou Fujimoto
MANUFACTURERS
Louis Poulsen
GUEST ROOMS DESIGN
Michelle de Lucchi, Japer Morrison, Leandro Erlich, Sou Fujimoto
LIGHTING DESIGN
Hiroyasu Shoji
TEXTILE
Yoko Ando
INTERIOR COORDINATION
Tomomi Nagayama
SIGNAGE AND ART DIRECTION
nanilani
RESTAURANT DIRECTION
Florilege, Hiroyasu Kawate
PLANTING SUPERVISION
SOLSO
OPERATION
Shiroiya Hotel Inc.
ARCHITECTURE
Sou Fujimoto
NTERIOR DESIGN
Sou Fujimoto
LOCATION
Maebashi, Japan
CATEGORY
Hotels, Renovation, Hotels Interiors
Creative minds from Japan and abroad gathered in Maebashi, Gunma to revitalize the city once prospered in the silk industry.
Shiroiya Hotel is a living room for the locals ad travelers to relax and enjoy art, food, and green.
It served also as a cultural axis of Maebashi where various projects are in progress for the city to grow.
An architect Sou Fujimoto has renovated an old hotel building of the '70s and created an atrium, by taking down the floors and exposing the rough concrete surface, where his staircases interact with Leandro Erlich's 'Lighting Pipes' which reminds the trace of water pipes running through the old edifice in the past.
This part is referred to as 'Heritage Tower' with the respect to the site where a history of more than 300 years of hotel business continued in the past.
Fujimoto also designed a new building called ' Green Tower' with the image of the hillock, typical scenery of the region by the Tone River.
Visitors are welcomed by the artwork of Lawrence Weiner and Hiroshi Sugimoto when entering the premises.
As if visiting a museum, each guest room exhibits unique artwork of the local and internationally acclaimed artists such as Tatsuo Miyajima and Ryan Gander.
