Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Kawaramachi Jokyoji / Japan
NIKKEN SPACE DESIGN LTD / Japan
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DFA Design for Asia Awards 2022 l Bronze Award l Spatial Design l Hospitality & Leisure Spaces
GROUNDBREAKING CONSERVATION
The hotel is in a renovated historical 1,500-year-old temple in Kyoto. Black and white, the key colours, represent light and shadow, and the calligraphy displayed in the atrium lobby further accentuates this motif. The groundbreaking project fully integrates the hotel into the temple, preserving its history and treasures while displaying its cultural heritage from a contemporary architectural perspective. The project demonstrates an exemplary solution to both conserving and revitalising vernacular architecture.
