What's so special about Intercontinental Shanghai, which has changed from a city scar to a city landmark and is called "Deep Pit Hotel"?

From urban scars to urban landmarks, from abandoned stone pits to architectural treasures, the five-star hotel with the lowest altitude in the world is known as the "world architectural miracle"! This place called Shenkeng Hotel is the Intercontinental Sheshan Hotel in Shanghai. How much do you know about the story behind it?

The original site of the Intercontinental Sheshan Hotel was a quarry in the 1960s. With the development of Shanghai's urban construction, more and more stone pits were dug, eventually forming a giant pit of more than 80 meters. In 1999,/kloc-0 was stopped by the Municipal Mining Bureau and abandoned.

This abandoned quarry seems to have turned into a huge scar, standing beside the beautiful Songjiang National Scenic Area and lying quietly at the foot of Sheshan Mountain.

Until 20 13, this scar began its road of repair and rebirth.

The idea of opening a shop was originally put forward by the chairman of Shimao Group, but due to the particularity of site selection and geology, it was unprecedented and never came again. It took seven years, thousands of revisions and adjustments, and billions of investments to complete this hotel design scheme "hanging on the pit wall".

Rugged cliffs, gurgling waterfalls and quiet pools, in such an environment, the design team led by the world's top designer Martin Jochman, that is, the original team of Dubai Yacht Hotel, made the Deep Pit Hotel "grow", integrate into it and be born.

During construction, the original appearance of the stone pit will be preserved to the maximum extent. In the abandoned time, the trees and vegetation that grow here are preserved to the greatest extent.

The original quarrying plank road and the gravel left after blasting have all taken on a new look in their own unique way. Nature, humanity, history, the past and the future in this deep pit, you can all see it at once.

A visual feast of spiritual adventure has just arrived, and you can only see two floors above the ground of the hotel. The architectural miracle of this world is even a little unremarkable. But walking in, the shock has just begun.

The design of the hotel combines the geological characteristics of the deep pit with the change of rock strata, and the hotel has a unified theme from the inside out-geocentric exploration. Walking down from the ground, you can see the different levels of landscape on the ground, underground, water surface and underwater in turn, as if going deep into the mine to start an adventure.

Go straight from the lobby bar to the terrace on the first floor, and you can see the view of the deep pit from the height. You need a drink before you can take pictures here. Ordinary people 100+ can go directly to the hotel, and you need to make an appointment one or two days in advance to punch in.

The source coffee all-day restaurant and the Chinese restaurant in Caifenglou are almost all world cuisines, just so-so, because what is more worth punching in is yet to come.

Take the transparent elevator to the first basement 14, which is the landscape platform and the red bar. The landscape platform is the best attraction at the bottom of the hotel and a good place for afternoon tea, where you can feel the shock of the pit bottom perspective.

In the middle of the main building is an 80-meter-high and 8-meter-high cantilever glass waterfall wall, which echoes the waterfall opposite the hotel from a distance, and it is more beautiful and spectacular when the lights are brightly lit at night.

The red stripe is between the bottom of the pit and the water surface. The environmental design inside the bar simulates the original mine, and of course it has a sense of modern design. It's really interesting to have a drink in the industrial air duct, wooden barrel wine rack and red brick-skinned "wild mine" at night.

The fishing and fire restaurant on the next floor is an underwater restaurant, which is the most popular network celebrity punching point in the hotel. You can see a big fish tank with underwater scenery next to every table, just like in an aquarium.

The environment has always been good, romantic and novel. This is the meal, and the evaluation seems to be quite satisfactory. The price is small and expensive, per capita 1000+.

Wonderful landscape of an underground room There are 336 luxurious rooms with different styles on the ground floor 16, each with its own balcony, and the only underground pit and waterfall with rock wall in China can be seen at a glance.

There is a big cave behind the waterfall water curtain, which is inhabited by many pigeons, so it is also a great spectacle to see pigeons flying in and out of the waterfall.

The lower the floor, the more expensive the house price and the better the view, the more special the underground hotel can be. Mainly concave rooms, no visual dead angle.

Hardware, Dyson hair dryer, TOTO smart toilet, Ferragamo spare parts, smart speakers, robot waiters ... Five-star hotels should have this level and will never treat you badly. But toothbrushes, toothpaste and combs are not provided voluntarily for environmental protection. Guests staying for lunch and dinner also need to book in advance.

Another important concern is the underwater duplex suite with negative 15 floor! Two words: amazing!

There is an outdoor terrace and bedroom upstairs near the surface of the pit. The living room is below the water surface, and there are blue fish swimming outside the window.

The trip to Shenkeng Hotel, a paradise where danger and interest are intertwined, is not only a scenic spot designed by wonders, but also a good place for parents and children to spend their holidays. Auxiliary entertainment will last you at least 2 days.

The best place to see the Shenkeng Hotel is the Fairy City theme park opposite the "Shenkeng Secret".

The 80-meter-long glass plank road that must be punched in is 88 meters high, and you have to pay extra for renting shoe covers 10 yuan. From the point of view of suspension, this pit seems to be floating in space. There is a broken screen animation on the glass. Walk on thin ice.

More exciting is the cliff hurricane swing and flying over the deep pit! The crazy temptation on the edge of the abyss. Playing is the heartbeat, and it is impossible not to be addicted.

The first Smurfs Paradise in Asia, with 6D movies, go-karts, small roller coasters and various interesting performances and interactions.

One of the best observation points to enjoy the scenery of the deep pit is the quarrying plank road, where you can hike on the cliff.

The light and shadow water curtain show is worth seeing, at 8 pm, about 15 minutes. If you haven't seen the drone show, it is also highly recommended.

To sum up, in the hotel closest to the blazing center of the earth in the world, in addition to understanding the ultimate luxury experience, design art and advanced technology, the most important thing is to feel the initial heart of Shenkeng Hotel and the awe of nature, people and nature, art and environment.