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2013

Award

2013.10.28

The Capitol Hotel Tokyu has been awarded a prize by Minister of Land

The Capitol Hotel Tokyu has been awarded a prize by Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in the 12th Competition for Specialized Greening Technology for Rooftops, Wall Facings and New Green Spaces.

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2013.10.21

Doubletree by Hilton Putian China Open

A high rise hotel building with 2 residential towers using straight lines and curved lines in the site facing the Putian prefecture government. By using curved lines, there is a view of a beautiful park from guest rooms in the hotel building. The residential buildings have a lot of sunshine, which displays scenery of the park for the residential buildings as well.
The two semi-circular shaped towers express the softness / lightness of curved surfaces and tension of planes.
Furthermore, a circular sector shape symbolizing success (from Chinese saying) is expressed as a symbol of further development and progress for the future of Putian prefecture and it gives a rhythm around the site.
These buildings are expected to be a symbol tower of the place by lighting up at night.

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2013.08.27

Shangri-La Hotel, Qufu Soft Open August 1, 2013

Qufu is located in the southern Jinan city, the capital of Shandong province and known as the birthplace of Confucius and Confucianism.
There are a number of popular sight seeing places in Qufu city, such as the Temple of Confucius, Kong Family Mansion and the Cemetery of Confucius. Many visitors come from all over the world to see Qufu city.
Further development is expected now that the Qufu-East station has been opened as part of the high-speed rail connecting Shanghai to Beijing.
The site is approximately triangular in shape, located in the heart of Qufu city. The site is bordered by Dacheng road and Datong road to the East and West respectively as well Xiaoyi river in the North Chunqiu road to the South. Dacheng extends to the Confucius temple and Kong Family mansion to the south.
The site is near the main facilities of Qufu city. On the northern side of the site, across the Xiaoyi river, there is an outside stage with a garden to its west. The Confucius research centre and the Qufu government office is on the western side of the site.
This project is a 5star grade hotel with 480 guestrooms and a 1600m2 banquet space as the first stage of construction.

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2013.05.27

Hilton Tokyo Inherited

Hilton Tokyo that opened in June, 1963 was the hotel where the Hilton Hotel brand which Conrad Nicholson Hilton Hotel opened in Japan was the first.The design team for Hilton Tokyo was headed by Hilton Hotels International designer Emanuel Gran.

He emphasized rationality and functionality while simultaneously attempting to create a design rooted in the land and its history to present the world a “New Japan.” Japan in the modern world was Hilton design team theme.
Several luminaries of Japanese designer joined his design team.They were a case of one completion form to express the design of the traditional design in modern architecture by reading “the Japanese history and culture”.
And Hilton Tokyo of the masterpiece of the hotel design was completed.
The design of this hotel which does not exist anymore speaks after half a century without losing freshness.

We thought that the guest room renovation of Hilton Tokyo should succeed to the mind of this design.
The renovated guest room design accepting new function and service which should be expressed should have developed in a design.