Luxury Hotel Being Built In An Abandoned Chinese Quarry

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by Megan Willett

Construction has officially begun on a £345 million ($528 million) resort project in an abandoned quarry in China's Songjiang District, The Daily Mail reports.

Known as the Songjiang Shimao Hotel, the resort is part of a larger development plan to turn the area into a theme park, according to Li Xuyang, a senior manager for the Shimao Group.

Atkin, the British firm that designed the hotel, wanted to make sure it blended in with the landscape. They are planning to build an eco-friendly roof with grass and trees that uses natural resources for power.

Two of the building's 19 stories will be underwater with aquarium-style walls, so guests can look out into the quarry. The other 17 stories will be built inside the cave, which is at the base of the Tianmenshan Mountain, according to The Daily Mail.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-quarry-hotel-under-construction-2013-6

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1. humans are really weird

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Just going back to our roots.

[In_The_Wind]

4. There were better times.

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[In_The_Wind]

3. What gave you your first clue!?

[DFW]

5. And in ten years, after the place goes bankrupt

They'll turn it into-----a rock quarry!

[Aristus]

6. The architecture looks......Alderaanian...:

[LongTomH]

7. Looks to me like another "Evil Paradise!"

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism is a look at futuristic retreats for the mega-rich existing, or under construction, today. These are the "City of Tomorrow" we dreamed of decades ago; the only problem is -- They're not for us peasants.

Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares.

Although they read like science fiction, the case studies are shockingly real. In Dubai, where child slavery existed until very recently, a gilded archipelago of private islands known as “The World” is literally being added to the ocean. In Medellín and Kabul, drug lords—in many ways textbook capitalists—are redefining conspicuous consumption in fortified palaces. In Hong Kong, Cairo, and even the Iranian desert, burgeoning communities of nouveaux riches have taken shelter in fantasy Californias, complete with Mickey Mouse statues, while their maids sleep in rooftop chicken coops. Meanwhile, Ted Turner rides herd over his bison in 2 million acres of private parkland.