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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
Sou Fujimoto’s brutalist concrete hotel revival transforms Maebashi
Sou Fujimoto’s brutalist concrete hotel revival transforms Maebashi
The revival of the brutalist concrete Shiroiya Hotel by architect Sou Fujimoto is part of Hitoshi Tanaka’s desire to turn an unassuming Japanese city into a design destination
The recently completed brutalist concrete Japanese architecture of the Shiroiya Hotel in the city of Maebashi, about two hours north-west of Tokyo, is a great example of what a slow and relaxed approach to architecture can achieve. Though it took three years longer than intended, and cost roughly double the original budget, both architect Sou Fujimoto and client Hitoshi Tanaka couldn’t be happier with the end result.