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The sheer rock face of an abandoned quarry in China is to be transformed into a spectacular hotel with its own waterfall.
An artist's view of what the finished cave hotel will look like. The 5-star underground resort is being built inside a 100-foot deep, water-filled abandoned quarry in China at the base of the Tianmenshan Mountain in the Songjiang District
The hotel, a £345-million, five-star property for the InterContinental hotel group, will cling to the walls of the quarry and overlook a sunken lake.
Its unusual centrepiece will be a 100-metre-high waterfall that will spill from the hotel roof down to an atrium on the ground floor and be visible from bedroom windows.
Two of the hotels 19 storeys with be submerged, looking into the depths of the lake at the bottom of the 100-metre-deep quarry. These underwater levels will house a restaurant and bedrooms.
Along with a swimming pool and all the other facilities you would usually expect, the resort will also offer opportunities for extreme sports, putting those steep quarry walls to good use with options for rock-climbing and bungee-jumping. There will also be water sports available on the lake.
The resort is based in the Songjiang district, near Shanghai. British design company Atkins is behind the build and intends to make the property as green as possible.
The rest of the InterContinental Shimao hotel will be built into the mountainous landscape and guests will be able to do watersports on the lake and use the nearby cliffs for rock-climbing and bungee jumping
An ecologically-sound roof will be covered in lawns and trees and the design will exploit the quarrys geothermal heat to generate electricity and heating.
From a walkway above the lake, guests will enter the complex via a naturally-lit atrium that the architects have said will incorporate the existing rock face, with the occasional waterfall and patches of vegetation.
The hotel is expected to open in late 2014 at the earliest, with rooms costing around £200 a night.
It is part of a larger project to build a Shimao Shanghai Wonderland theme park.
How the current abandoned quarry in Shanghai looks. The hotel has been designed by British firm Adkins to make sure it blends in with the landscape. It will be fitted with an eco-friendly roof and will use natural, nearby resources to power the hotel
The five-star resort will have an aquarium with glass walls that look out onto a restaurant and guest rooms, a swimming pool and a sports centre, a banqueting hall and conference facilities
Five-star cave hotel to open in China - Telegraph
An artist's view of what the finished cave hotel will look like. The 5-star underground resort is being built inside a 100-foot deep, water-filled abandoned quarry in China at the base of the Tianmenshan Mountain in the Songjiang District
The hotel, a £345-million, five-star property for the InterContinental hotel group, will cling to the walls of the quarry and overlook a sunken lake.
Its unusual centrepiece will be a 100-metre-high waterfall that will spill from the hotel roof down to an atrium on the ground floor and be visible from bedroom windows.
Two of the hotels 19 storeys with be submerged, looking into the depths of the lake at the bottom of the 100-metre-deep quarry. These underwater levels will house a restaurant and bedrooms.
Along with a swimming pool and all the other facilities you would usually expect, the resort will also offer opportunities for extreme sports, putting those steep quarry walls to good use with options for rock-climbing and bungee-jumping. There will also be water sports available on the lake.
The resort is based in the Songjiang district, near Shanghai. British design company Atkins is behind the build and intends to make the property as green as possible.
The rest of the InterContinental Shimao hotel will be built into the mountainous landscape and guests will be able to do watersports on the lake and use the nearby cliffs for rock-climbing and bungee jumping
An ecologically-sound roof will be covered in lawns and trees and the design will exploit the quarrys geothermal heat to generate electricity and heating.
From a walkway above the lake, guests will enter the complex via a naturally-lit atrium that the architects have said will incorporate the existing rock face, with the occasional waterfall and patches of vegetation.
The hotel is expected to open in late 2014 at the earliest, with rooms costing around £200 a night.
It is part of a larger project to build a Shimao Shanghai Wonderland theme park.
How the current abandoned quarry in Shanghai looks. The hotel has been designed by British firm Adkins to make sure it blends in with the landscape. It will be fitted with an eco-friendly roof and will use natural, nearby resources to power the hotel
The five-star resort will have an aquarium with glass walls that look out onto a restaurant and guest rooms, a swimming pool and a sports centre, a banqueting hall and conference facilities
Five-star cave hotel to open in China - Telegraph
