The Pangu Plaza () is a five mixed used buildings complex comprises an office building, three apartment buildings, clubs, retail and Pangu 7 Star Hotel (Pangu Seven Star Hotel) which located at 27, North 4th Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang,

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. Shaped like a dragon, it is neighbor with many of the 2008 Beijing Olympic venues, including the

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(Bird Nest) and the

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(Water Cube). Also, it is close to the

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. The Pangu Plaza was designed by

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of C.Y. Lee & Partners, the Taiwan-based architecture firm responsible for Taipei 101, for the world's first traditional Chinese “courtyard in the sky." Pangu 7 Star Hotel occupies the "First Block" of the "Pangu", and it contains two pavilions, a temple, a French restaurant, a Top Class Japanese restaurant, 234 guest rooms, with 140 suites, and a 600-meter-long corridor. Pangu Plaza is a building invested and built by

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in 2008.

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The “tail” building of Pangu Plaza "Pangu 7 Star Hotel" is one of the world's only two 7-star hotels. The hotel is named "Pangu 7 Star Hotel Beijing" in spite of the fact that no traditional organization or formal body awards or recognizes any rating over "five-star deluxe", and in spite of the fact that customarily a hotel does not ''award itself'' stars. In the time-honored, international hotel rating tradition, 5 is the maximum number of stars awarded, so, for example, world-renowned establishments like

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or the

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do not protest that they have been awarded "merely" 5 stars, as this is actually the highest award / rating. The Pangu 7 Star Hotel is considered to be the top luxury hotel in Beijing.

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, the founder of

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, stayed at the hotel during the Beijing Olympics. Warren Buffett and Henry Kissinger have been lounging there. Chinese authorities seized ownership of the tallest building of Pangu Plaza in 2016 and auctioned it for nearly 5.19 billion yuan. This building also houses the headquarters of IBM's China division.

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