RISONARE SHIMONOSEKI BY NIHON SEKKEI AND KLEIN DYTHAM

RISONARE Shimonoseki by Hoshino Resorts is a 187-room waterfront hotel located in the Arcaport–Karato district of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan , overlooking the Kanmon Strait. Conceived as a ‘designer hotel on the strait,’ the project is the result of a close collaboration between Nihon Sekkei and Klein Dytham Architecture , with architecture and interior design developed in parallel to create a destination embedded within the daily life, movement, and cultural geography of Shimonoseki’s waterfront.

According to Nihon Sekkei, the form of the building was derived from a careful interpretation of the coastal landscape of Shimonoseki.…