SHANGHAI, China — A hotel carved out of an old rock quarry opened its doors to the media in Shanghai Thursday. The owner offered reassurance on the safety of the building, despite possible fears of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hotel carved out of an old rock quarry opened its doors to the media in Shanghai on Thursday, with its owner offering ...

For more than a decade, China has been a front-runner in the world’s skyscraper race. Now the country is taking the pole position in digging “groundscrapers” -- enormous structures built mostly ...

It took almost 10 years to construct, but the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland will soon open on December 1st offering guests a most unique hotel experience. The hotel will be located about 20 ...

When you picture the Shanghai skyline, rows of skyscrapers likely come to mind. But the city well known for building to extreme heights has recently completed a project that drops to a new low: a vast ...

After almost 10 years of construction, Shanghai has unveiled to the public its ‘earthscraper’ hotel built vertically along the precipice of an underground, water-filled quarry. Costing 2 billion yuan ...

A hotel development sunk into a disused quarry in China opened its doors Thursday to deep-pocketed clientele. Preventing the 88-metre-deep (290 feet) pit from flooding was among the chief challenges ...

Sometimes the best building designs are uniquely suited to the environment on which they’re erected. Case in point: the Songjiang Quarry Hotel–a jaw-dropping structure built into the side of a ...

China's latest luxury hotel yesterday opened inside an abandoned quarry after nearly a decade of construction. InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, a much-anticipated £225 million project, is built ...