The Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland (), or Tianma Pit Hotel, or Shimao Quarry Hotel, Songjiang,
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hotel that had started operations on 20 November 2018 in
Songjiang,
Shanghai,
China
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, from city center.
Managed by
InterContinental, the hotel has been built on the site of an abandoned
quarry and, notably, features some rooms underwater.
The design and construction process of the hotel was fraught with many delays prior to 2013. Since 2013, however, the design optimization and onsite construction progressed at a fairly swift pace. The fit-out work carried out in 2017 and finally opened on 20 November 2018.
History
The
InterContinental Hotels Group is behind the project as one of its
flagship
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hotels in the country under the banner of Shimao Wonderland InterContinental. The design was shortlisted for an award at the
World Architecture Festival in 2009.
According to ''
Shanghaiist'', the Shanghai Shimao Property Group has an investment of US$555 million in the project.
It opened on 20 November 2018.
Construction
The concept and facade design firm for this project is JADE+QA, led by
Martin Jochman, who designed the concept while working with ATKINS and in 2013 set up his own practice in Shanghai and continued working on this project directly for the developer Shimao with his own studio JADE+QA.
The local architectural firm is ECADI (East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.), which is responsible for design development, construction documents, structural design and MEP. The interior design firms are CCD (Cheng Chung Design) and AB Concept. The lighting design consultant is Illuminate Lighting Design.
The hotel is 18 stories,
16 of which are below ground level including two projected underwater floors; two of the floors are above the 88m deep quarry.
The abandoned quarry is partially filled with water to create an artificial lake. The hotel is designed in an "S" shape utilizing a convex to concave form. The architects' vision is one of sequential hanging gardens that will produce the effect of a green hill extending down the face of the quarry. Both the quarry's rock face and the wings of the blocks of guest rooms are projected to surround an atrium within the hotel. The vertical atrium made of glass will (above the hotel) is intended to symbolise an artificial "waterfall."
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