ALL DAY PLACE SHIBUYA

All Day Place Shibuya is based on the theme of a public house, the origin of the word “pub”. It is a place where you can get a sense of everyday life in Shibuya. The ground floor, which features a cafe and beer pub, is open from morning to night with the aim of creating a park-like space that can be used freely. I decided to use tiles in order to have the same material throughout the design, from the area outside the hotel’s ground floor entrance to the cafe and beer pub, and even the bathrooms in the suite rooms on the top floor.

I selected green tiles to match the plants around the exterior. Mikkeller, the Danish craft beer brand based on the ground floor, asked for “a design that will look Japanese to Danish people, and Danish to Japanese people”. The green is actually a really Japanese colour. However, it has been combined with other materials so that it doesn’t appear that way.

I was impressed by the variety and depth of the glazes.

While it took some time, it was particularly good to be able to adjust the colour right from the start, and then have the manufacturers meet the anti-slip specifications for the exterior tiles.