"When the Park Hyatt opened on the 14 highest floors of the Kenzo Tange-designed Shinjuku Park Tower in 1994, it established a template that dozens of luxury Tokyo hotels would follow. Just as Ian Schrager reinvented ground floor hotel lobbies as nightclubs in New York ten years before, the world's third Park Hyatt established a new paradigm for Tokyo: Everyone would have a room that felt like a penthouse and the ground level was purely incidental."
"The glass pyramid ceiling shapes of The Peak lounge and the swimming pool, reminiscent of IM Pei's Louvre, remain intact, while the artwork, live jazz, lighting, and layout of the New York Bar on the highest floor is exactly as it was when it featured so prominently in the 2003 Sofia Coppola film Lost in Translation, making the hotel a megastar."
The Park Hyatt opened in 1994 on the top floors of Kenzo Tange's Shinjuku Park Tower and set a luxury Tokyo template with penthouse-like rooms and discreet ground-level access. Architect Tange's modernist silhouette and John Morford's expansive mid-century interiors established a Manhattan-inflected aesthetic. Paris-based Studio Jouin Manku completed a 19-month restoration that the hotel calls a "restoration" rather than a refurb. Signature features such as the glass pyramid ceilings, The Peak lounge, the swimming pool, and the New York Bar remain intact. The restoration focused on nuanced new materials to make spaces feel freshly minted yet familiarly preserved.
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