Il Plazzo / Aldo Rossi & Shigeru Uchida

Hotel Il Palazzo by Aldo Rossi and Morris Adjmi (1989) with the original interior design by Shigeru Uchida. Located in Fukuoka, Japan. Uchida was actually commissioned to design the hotel and called on Rossi to do the architectural design while Uchida did the interior. 

 It's a post-modern icon and is seen as one of Rossi's most important projects. 

Here is the original 1989 design by Shigeru Uchida. 

 Photo: Nacása & Partners Inc

The hotel has changed hands at least couple times over the years. The original furniture was sold off long ago and for very cheap according to a collector friend in Japan. 

 Photo: Nacása & Partners Inc

This is what one of the original Japanese style rooms looked like. All the rooms are western style rooms now as far as I know.

 Photo: Nacása & Partners Inc

The latest redesign was done by Uchida Design Studio in 2021, since Uchida passed away  in 2016. It's great that they went back to his firm. 

They used many of his designs throughout the hotel.

I hit the dessert bar hard.

 Uchida Dear Morris clock. It was designed for the hotel and named after Morris Adjmi, a partner in the Aldo Ross firm.

 On each trip to Japan I try to visit cities I've never been to before. I'm not sure exactly why I was drawn to Fukuoka but I had to stay at Il Palazzo. So here are my Po-Mo PJs.

 Shigeru Uchida designed the branding for the hotel.

There are two buildings on each side which originally housed four bars that were designed by Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Alfredo Arribas, and Shiro Kuramata.

This was Zibibbo, the Sottsass-designed bar. 

Source: Architectural Record (May, 1990)

The view from one of the new buildings located across the street. 

Said building as viewed from my room.