Architects Build Stunning Hotel Into the Walls of an Abandoned Rock Quarry

Adventurers and travel junkies have another quirky destination to visit during their next world tour.

The Deep Pit Hotel, which is being called the world’s first “underground” hotel, opens next month as a swanky new Intercontinental resort that has been built inside an abandoned quarry southwest of Shanghai, China.



The hotel has 18 floors, two of which are submerged in an aquarium. Every room on the other 16 floors is equipped with its own balcony that looks out over the strange landscape.

The facility was also built with sustainability in mind. The hotel’s structure was mainly kept within the walls of the quarry to minimize environmental impact. Additionally, the hotel will be drawing on geothermal and solar energy for power.



As a means of serving adrenaline junkie visitors, the hotel will also offer bungee jumping and rock climbing from the top of the quarry.

Over the course of the last decade, the “Intercontinental Shimao Wonderland” has required over 5,000 workers from the British design firm Atkins to finish the building.

Now, the hotel is expected to open to the public this October.



https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/architects-build-stunning-hotel-into-the-walls-of-an-abandoned-rock-quarry/

I like it, I would be able to be on the top floor and enjoy the views and know getting one floor up is an escape route.

Stunning, like you said, Didge.   Landscape and shrubbery are plush too.

Being carved into the rock throws up some interesting anomalies ... eg it has no back door(s). 

And the architect did not need to build any foundation, the building has its own inbuilt foundation - the rock itself. Wow!

Very nice. Great recycling of land use.

They may well have the first 5-star (or higher) 'underground' hotel in the world...

However, there have been underground motels and hotels out around the Coober Pedy and Whitecliffs opal fields for some decades now..

https://www.trivago.com.au/coober-pedy-74142/hotel/the-lookout-cave-underground-motel-3132832

Wouldn’t it be cold at night though?

They are warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer.

nicko wrote:They are warm in the Winter and cool in the Summer.

Hmmm, I stayed in a kind of mountain house in Greece, years ago, and it was bastard freezing at night.

The ancients of Jordan did it centuries ago. It's called Petra.