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2018 Shanghai Shenkeng Hotel 4,000 yuan per night interior pictures + hotel highlights

The biggest surprise in the hotel industry, Shanghai Sheshan Shimao InterContinental Hotel, commonly known as Shenkeng Hotel, opened to the world yesterday on the 15th! The hotel was extremely difficult to build and took 2 years to build. However, the final construction result is still satisfactory to everyone. The waterfall flying down in the air, the flowing water, and the beautiful scenery.

Sheshan Shimao InterContinental Hotel, also known as Shimao Shenkeng Hotel, has a building layout of 2 floors above ground and 16 floors below ground (including two floors below the water surface). It has 336 guest rooms and suites, all The rooms all have viewing terraces, facing the pit and enjoying the stunning views of the cliffs and waterfalls.

Currently, hotel rooms are on sale on Ctrip.com, and the general room price is around 4,000 yuan. How the world's architectural miracle was built

In 2006, Mr. Xu Rongmao, chairman of the board of directors of Shimao Group, discovered a mining pit that had been abandoned for many years at the foot of Sheshan Mountain and came up with the idea of ??building a natural ecological hotel;

In 2006, British designer Martin Jochman, who had participated in the design of the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, became the designer of the Shenkeng Hotel. Making a hotel that truly grows in nature, rather than a bionic building, was his source of inspiration.

In 2009, the project officially started;

In 2013, the hotel started full construction, challenging the "impossible";

In 2016, the main structure of the hotel was capped.

In 2018, Shimao Shenkeng InterContinental Hotel began operations. Interior view

More than 1,400 pieces of art and art installations

The hotel has more than 1,400 pieces of art and art installations. "Cirrus Cloud Shu" located at the entrance of the hotel is the most representative art sculpture in the entire hotel: a dragon shape, one part is made of solid stainless steel, and the other part is made of stainless steel with hollow text. Only when you look closely can you find the Chinese character decoration.

You can enjoy the boundless scenery of the mine in the hotel lobby. There is a wonderful water curtain show that is staged from time to time. The water curtain changes various patterns and is matched with beautiful music to make you unable to stop.

Based on the geographical characteristics of the pit, the scenery changes in the pit, the changing characteristics of rock formations and the need for spectacle experience, the hotel arranged an exclusive and unique design story "Journey to the Center of the Earth" for the pit.

From the ground to the depths of the earth, to the depths of the water, the lobby, guest rooms, bars, underwater suites, and underwater restaurants are all closely linked to the story, as if going deep into a mine to start an adventure. For example, the landscaping at the entrance of the Chinese restaurant is specially designed with a transparent skylight, which means that a ray of dawn shines into the deep pit!

Do you still remember the dynamic Qingming Riverside Scene at the China Art Palace? There is also one in the Shenkeng Hotel The dynamic long scroll - the Silk Road Landscape Map, presents the grand scenery of the ancient Silk Road.

The hotel is built along the rock wall, and the room types and structural conditions of each floor are different, which brings great challenges to the apartment design. After integrating and summarizing the conditions and characteristics of the units on each floor, the hotel summarized the layout of three major types of units; combined with the color changes of the geological rock formations, red and blue were designed based on the colors of stones containing iron, hematite and calcium carbonate. , gray and blue three guest room interior designs.

8 suites

The balcony has a unique view

The hotel *** has 6 duplex suites and 2 fully underwater suites. The 8 suites are suitable for families, honeymoons, and presidential suites.

The family suite is a duplex, shaped like a yacht. The entrance and living room are on the B15 floor, as if they are at the bottom of the cabin. When you push the door and enter, you will be surrounded by fish swimming in front of you; go up the stairs to the B14 floor, that is It is the bedroom and children’s play space (the picture above is the actual scene). The balcony view here is really amazing! Chiba Bar

It is located on the B14 floor of the hotel, between the pit bottom and the water surface. The combination of internal light and shadow is reminiscent of the rocks and dim light in the pit cliff. The mine below. Thick steel structure water pipes, red crystal facades, red leather, and custom wooden barrel wine racks. These elements make the bar’s mining industrial style more intense.

The night view of the hotel is extremely dazzling, and the staff revealed: There will be a light show on the lake at night! Outdoors of the hotel

The hotel has specially set up an open outdoor leisure platform in the center of the lake, connected to the bar .

Sitting here, you can see the guest rooms stacked up on the cliff, which is very spectacular. The staff revealed that there are no plans for the legendary bungee jumping, but rock climbing projects will be opened on this cliff in the future!

The scenery on the other side is a waterfall and a quarrying plank road.

The quarrying plank road stands on the original cliff on the left side of the building. The plank road is in a Z shape and is built along the top of the pit into the pit. The 300 steps take 10 minutes to go up from bottom to top and 5 minutes to go down from top to bottom. This is part of Shenkeng’s cultural imprint and is currently not open to the public and residents.

There is a large cave behind the water curtain of the waterfall. It used to be a place where miners stored explosives. Later, pigeons were attracted to live here, so you will always see pigeons flying out of the waterfall. The artistic conception is very beautiful. .

The hotel has preserved more than 200 wild trees and vegetation on the cliffs of Shenkeng to show respect for the wild beauty of Shenkeng. The island in the center of the lake creates the artistic conception of "pine rocks listening to the waterfall", and the vigorous and tall welcoming pines in the mountains welcome guests from all over. This small island looks like a fish from a distance! The wooden boardwalk can better appreciate the scenery of the pit from the outside.

A special reminder to you is that the stones piled up on this road are all ores dug out of the mines during the construction process. You can pick up a piece and take it back as a souvenir! Don't take it randomly, I'm kidding. Theme Park

If you walk outside the hotel, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that there is a theme park called the "Secret Pit" Elf City Theme Park. It is also built by Shimao Group and will be launched in the near future. Open to the public.

The park is not very big, and the glass plank road is a beautiful view of the pit!

There is also a cliff hurricane (big pendulum) in the park, which is on the cliff of the pit Edge!

Projects for children, such as treehouses, paths for the brave, and more. The future "Leap Over the Pit" project is still under construction, that is, a high-altitude zip line (not a cable car). You can tie the zip line and slide directly to the hotel opposite!

It is marked on the ticket office at the entrance of the park. : Adult tickets are 120 yuan/person.