Shanghai Remodels Quarry Into “Ground Scrapper" - Pics

Shanghai is building a huge underground hotel on the site of an abandoned quarry – and the project is finally nearing completion after ten years in the making and a few missed deadlines.

The underground hotel is 67 meters below sea level, and it will have 17 floors under the ground’s surface and two floors under the water.

Developed by Shanghai Shimao Property Group and to be managed by InterContinental Hotels Group, the hotel, named InterContinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland, is expected to extend 19 stories into the bottom of the pit.

The project is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017, although it should have been finalized well earlier in time. Previous reports had said the project would be finished in 2014, then 2016 – but delays, partially influenced by the difficulty of construction, emerged time and again.

The hotel is located at an abandoned quarry from the World War Two period in Songjiang District, the southwestern outskirt of Shanghai.