Hotel Sofitel Tokyo

After a brief refurbishment (with the number of rooms increased to 83) it was reopened as 4-star hotel in September 2000, but was soon closed in December 2006 and was demolished between February 2007 and May 2008.

Hotel Sofitel was a late work of Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake (then 66 years old when the building was conceived), best known for his own pre-metabolist house (Sky House[2]) and the Edo-Tokyo Museum (1993).

The Hotel Sofitel building resembled some metabolist ideas (as Joint Core,[3] capsules, modularity and the theoretical possibility of replacement of its parts).

The building shows a direct similarity to Kikutake's earlier theoretical project "Tree-shaped Community" Archived 2017-05-17 at the Wayback Machine[4] from 1968.

The object referenced traditional Japanese architecture, which is characteristic of Kikutake's mature and late works (such as the Edo-Tokyo Museum, Izumo Grand Shrine Administration Building and the Toukouen Hotel).