Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a hotel in central Tokyo with a series of colourful, two-tone bedrooms and a Pantone colour of the year exterior.
Built on a tight urban site in the city's Suidobashi district, the hotel was designed to provide accommodation for both business and leisure guests, which gives it its name ? Toggle Hotel.
Toggle Hotel is on a tight urban site in Suidobashi
"The hotel can be used as a business or work-cation ? on ? or for leisure, visiting concerts and sports events in Tokyo Dome nearby ? off," explained Klein Dytham Architecture co-founder Mark Dytham.
"Like a toggle switch!"
The hotel has grey and yellow facades
The nine-storey, triangular block is wedged between a raised expressway, a railway line and the Kanda River. This largely grey urban setting informed the colourful exterior and interiors of the hotel, which was designed to stand out from the neighbouring infrastructure.
Toggle Hotel has colourful two-tone bedrooms
"Toggle Hotel was meant to stand out like a billboard when seen from the expressway on the north-east side or the Chuo Line train on the south side," explained Klein Dytham Architecture co-founder Astrid Klein.
"We also wanted the hotel to embrace the city with framed views of the trains, cars and the occasional boat from each of the rooms," she told Dezeen.
Bedrooms were finished in many colours
On the exterior Klein Dytham Architecture choose to combine grey with yellow, the...