This luxury hotel will be one of a kind
This week I came across a report on plans for a mind-bending futuristic hotel to be built in a disused mine quarry in China. The architect’s rendering of the hotel, due to be completed by 2014, speaks (loudly) for itself.
The five-star resort hotel will be set in a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China.
Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.
The Economist states:
The architectural plans are futuristic, yet the 380-room hotel is expected to open by late 2014 or early 2015. Given how much work there is to do…those projections do seem rather bullish. But we’ve already seen how much hotel the Chinese can build in 15 days, so 2½ years for this fantastical construction might suffice.
The design was the award-winning work of Atkins, a British firm of architects. Martin Jochman, the team leader, has described the thinking behind it:
We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting itself, adopting the image of a green hill cascading down the natural rock face as a series of terraced landscaped hanging gardens. In the centre, we have created a transparent glass ‘waterfall’ from a central vertical circulation atrium connecting the quarry base with the ground level. This replicates the natural waterfalls on the existing quarry face.
I’d love to see it when completed. No word on cost yet, but well into nine figures is my guess.
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