The lavish Five-star cave hotel being built in an abandoned Chinese quarry

- Construction has started on a hotel resort that will nestle into the 100 metre-high rockface of an abandoned water-filled quarry outside Shanghai.
- A huge waterfall will pour down from the roof of the 19-storey hotel complex, which will have part of its body built into the cave and two of its floors submerged beneath the water.
- An extreme-sports facility will be cantilevered over the quarry, offering rock climbing and bungee jumping, and there will also be an underwater restaurant facing a ten-metre deep aquarium.
- The Songjiang Hotel is designed by UK architecture firm Atkins. Construction has just begun and will take up to three years, although the hotel could open in 2015.
- Once complete, the hotel will offer around 400 rooms, as well as conference facilities for up to 1000 people, a banqueting hall, restaurants, a swimming pool and a water-sports centre.
- The building will use geothermal technologies to generate its own electricity and lighting, while greenery will blanket a roof that extends just two storeys above the edge of the quarry.
- Sustainability is integral to Atkins' design of this unique resort, built into an abandoned, water-filled quarry.
- Our design solution includes the use of green roofing and exploiting the site's geothermal heat to generate electricity and heating. A naturally-lit internal atrium incorporates the existing rock face, with its waterfalls and green vegetation.
- People could view the hundred-meter high waterfall from their room window.
- 'The hotel is part of the larger project to build Shimao Shanghai Wonderland, a large-scale theme park.'

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