Sou Fujimoto Architects has renovated a hotel in Maebashi, Japan, removing the original building s internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing covered in cabins.
Located in the centre of the city, the 1970s Shiroiya Hotel is on the site of a former inn that hosted guests for over 300 years.
As part of a wider rejuvenation of Maebashi s city centre, local businessman Jin Tanaka commissioned Sou Fujimoto Architects to revamp the four-storey building that had been vacant since it closed in 2008.
Top: Sou Fujimoto added a grassy hill at the rear of the Shiroiya Hotel. Above: the facade contains an artwork by Lawrence Weiner