Projects
K5
The 97-year-old building, formally owned by a bank, is located in the heart of Japan’s financial district, Nihonbashi Kabutocho. K5 is not only a boutique hotel, or merely a collection of the best restaurants and bars, but rather it compromises of ‘micro compounds’ that make the building one whole.
Bringing together unique collaborators to form a relationship (or rather, friendship) we collaboratively shaped the building into what we now call K5.
A major topic of discussion throughout the process was how to make non-quantifiable values outweigh their quantifiable counterparts. The challenge was to ensure that “experience” and “creativity” would always have an advantage over its quantifiable counterpart of economic rationality.
Project owner
K5 inc.
Operation
Ferment inc.
Space design
Claesson Koivisto Rune
Design and construction
ADX
Developer
Heiwa Real Estate Co., Ltd.
Project Management
Insitu japan inc.
Branding and tenant curation
Media Surf Communications inc.