HOTEL IN A QUARRY NEXT YEAR
Architects from Atkins, a British design office, designed an unusual InterContinental Shimao Wonderland hotel, which is going to be built in a closed quarry near Shanghai at Tianmashan mountain. According to its futuristic project, the major part of the building will be built in a 100-metre high rock. There will be 19 floors in that building. Only two highest floors will be above the ground level. The lowest floor with a hotel restaurant will be below water surface. The hotel will offer around 380 rooms and prices start from around 320 dollars per night.
– Location of the hotel, that is a closed quarry, was very important for us. It resembles a shape of a rocky mountainside. Inside there is a glass waterfall whose shape refers to waterfalls flowing in depressions – explains Martin Jochman, the manager of the project. Media started talking about this unusual project a few years ago. Since March 2012 an enormous progress has been noticed. According to the plans, the hotel will be ready in 2018.
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