March 2021, SUMMARY

SHOTENKENCHIKU is monthly magazine of Japanese interior design / store design / commercial architecture


 


NEW SHOP & ENVIRONMENT

TOKOROZAWA SAKURA TOWN

(Page 44)



Located in Tokorozawa city, Saitama prefecture, is a “contents
mall”, planned and operated by KADOKAWA CORPORATION,
multimedia publishing company. The project context includes
Tokorozawa Park, small factories, and suburban residents. The
building, blending in the local, succeeded in making a new place.
It has office, warehouse, hotel, museum, shop, library, shrine, art
gallery, hall for animation lovers, and digital printing and book
manufacturing facility. Among them, Kadokawa Musashino
Museum looks outstanding like a colossal rock popping out from
the ground. The exterior is covered with twenty thousand stone
panels that show the traces by masons’ work.
Designer : Kengo Kuma & Associates + KAJIMA DESIGN

 

NEW SHOP & ENVIRONMENT

HOTEL THE MITSUI KYOTO

(Page 63)



Aburanokoji Residence in Kyoto was rebuilt in 1897 by Takamine
Mitsui, the tenth family head of The Mistui, on a site owned by the
family for two hundred and fifty years. The residence represented
the high-end aesthetics and cultural literacy of the family, as
Takamine himself took part in designing. Today, the residence
was reborn as a luxurious hotel named HOTEL THE MITSUI
KYOTO operated by Mistui Fudosan. The hotel was designed
considering the history of the context and historical values of the
residence, to present world-class sophistications of Japanese
culture. A lounge, guest rooms, and restaurants connect to a
courtyard. The views of the garden give a feeling of the depth and
the richness to the interior environment and continuity of each
room attracts hotel guests.
Designer : SHIMIZU CORPORATION + A.KURYU ARCHITECT
& ASSOCIATES + STRICKLAND + WORKTECHT
 
 
 
SPECIAL FEATURE 
NEW ERA OF STREET CULTURE

KITH TOKYO

(Page 88)



The first global flagship shop in Asia of KITH TOKYO, multi-brand
sneaker store, opened in MIYASHITA PARK in Shibuya, Tokyo.
The ground floor has two rooms. FOOTWEAR SALES ROOM,
left side of the entrance, displays a collection of selected sneakers
on shelves and a glass tower called “Archive Tower” stands in the
center of the floor, which is an icon of this store. APPAREL
SALES ROOM is for both men’s and women’s apparels of KITH.
The second story is a kid’s store with KITH TREATS, cereal ice
cream shop.
Designer : Snarkitecture + BAYCREW'S + Kanome
 
 
SPECIAL FEATURE 
NEW ERA OF STREET CULTURE

Chocolate Jesus

(Page 104)



This street casual clothing store is located in Okinawa. The
designer referred to the origin of skateboard when he started to
work on this project. Skateboard is said to have been born as a
alternative for surfing. So, slopes and steps are like waves and
streets are waterways in his design concept. In that sense, boxes
and ramps are such examples in skate parks. In this interior
environment, the ramp is interpreted as an abstract element of city
landscape. Shoppers can sit or even lie down on steps and
curved walls where they display merchandises. Furniture and
platforms are not specifically functional, making a fabulous city
space for skateboarders in the environment.
Designer : fujiilab.
 
 
SPECIAL FEATURE 
NEW ERA OF STREET CULTURE

or

(Page 120)



Using the three floor levels of the north end of RAYARD
MIYASHITA PARK, commercial complex in Shibuya, Tokyo, “or”
is a music bar. The first floor is a café, the second floor is an art
gallery full of art pieces, and the third floor is a cool night club.
Each floor is designed simply to be used as an even hall with its
DJ booth and special lighting, focusing on happenings. You can
enter the establishment for free and choose floor you like. This
music bar become a choice where to play, so the bar was named
“or”.
Designer : Bay Leaf
 
 
SPECIAL FEATURE 
NEW ERA OF STREET CULTURE

BnA_WALL

(Page 140)


This unique building, with a big wall in the center of the lounge, is
a hotel and cultural establishment based upon a concept of “play”,
“work”, “life”, and “creation”. It will make a new cultural hub in
Nihonbashi in re-developing metropolitan Tokyo. It has twenty-six
artistic guest rooms, which were designed by twenty-three pairs
of artists and art directors, and interior designers. They designed
sophisticated guest rooms suitable for their art works. Each guest
room has each different environment and ambience. Collaborators
of BnA are respected and their works in this establishment will
keep change to attract art lovers.
Designer : BnA Makeshift meri shinohara architects/m-sa SKD
Morita Hisao Architect/Maoarc SUMAR WORKS
 
 
 
FEATURE ARTICLE 
RESTAURANT COMPLEX

TUGBOAT_TAISHO

(Page 173)



Located at the waterside of Shirinashi river flowing at the
northernmost tip of Taisho ward, Osaka city, TUGBOAT_TAISHO
is an intriguing commercial complex to lead community design.
Under a theme of “making is communicating”, it includes
restaurants, food hall, pier, and more. As for the architectural
materials of the facility they used various local production like
handrails stairs, deck frames, steel joineries, signboards, wire
ropes, and drums. Designers and local factory workers earnestly
collaborated on this task.
Designer : muura
 
 
FEATURE ARTICLE 
RESTAURANT COMPLEX

JINGUMAE COMICHI

(Page 183)



Using the ground and two floor levels of a building, this food
complex offers eighteen restaurants. It is located at an area near
Harajuku station where there are few restaurant. JINGUMAE
COMICHI targets both local people and foreign tourists who feel
free to enjoy various Japanese food. COMICHI means, in
Japanese, a lane and visitors can browse the restaurants along
the lane-like interior environment. The traffic line has no dead end,
so people can easily go around. All restaurants have terrace
seating and a counter seating as the core. You enjoy going from
one restaurant to the next in this complex and the bustle attracts
people walking nearby.
Designer : NOMURA Fujita Corporation
 
 
 

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