InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland: A Former Quarry
A. (Atkins) The InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel in China's Songjiang District, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Shanghai, appears modest when approached from ground level because only two storeys project above ground and green roofs help them blend into the surrounding greenery. But when guests step inside the …
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Into The Deep: The Songjiang Quarry Hotel in …
The Songjiang Quarry Hotel, officially known as the Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental, is probably one of the "greenest" and most audacious hotel developments in recent history. Its a bold idea that sees …
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China's 'Quarry Hotel' To Have 17 Floors Underground, 2 …
The 100-meter-deep quarry is located in Songjiang district, not far from Shanghai city. According to Shanghaiist, Atkins, a British design and engineering firm, won the rights to design the hotel.
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Governmental Inter-sectoral Strategies to Prevent and …
Government inter-sectoral strategies are required to address the challenges of the public health crisis, ... COVID-19 prevention and control public health strategies in Shanghai, China. J Public Health Man. (2020) 26:334–44. 10.1097/Phh.0000000000001202 [Google Scholar] 14. Yin R. ...
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Assessing the benefits of reclaiming urban quarries: a …
In order to assess the benefits of mined land reclamation, a CVM study was conducted at "P. Viaropoulos" abandoned quarry, which is located at Galatsi Municipality, in the center of Athens. Quarrying time spanned from the middle of 1930s till the end of 1970s, when 2,500,000 m 3 of aggregates were extracted. Nowadays, the abandoned quarry ...
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IJERPH | Free Full-Text | Lung Function and Respiratory Health …
Environmental exposure to dust from quarrying activities could pose health dangers to the population living nearby. This study aimed to investigate the health effects of dust exposure on people living close to quarry sites and compared them with those who live far from the quarry sites. A cross-sectional comparative study was conducted …
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ASLA 2012 Professional Awards | Quarry Garden in Shanghai …
Site and Context. Quarry Garden is located at the center of Shanghai Chen Mountain Botanical Garden, covering an area of 4.26 hectares (10.53 acres). Chen Mountain is isolated in the Garden and is nearly 70 meters (229.7 feet) high. Its appearance has been greatly destroyed and two east-west quarries are formed between the early 20th Century ...
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Views are the pits: welcome to China's quarry hotel
A hotel built in an abandoned quarry that plunges 80 metres below ground level is nearing completion in China, part of a wave of ambitious architectural projects spurred by rapid economic growth ...
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(PDF) Lung Function and Respiratory Health of
Lung Function and Respiratory Health of Populations Living Close to Quarry Sites in Palestine: A Cross-Sectional Study ... Public Health 2020, 17, 6068; doi:10.3390 / ijerph17176068 ...
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Impact of Granite Quarrying on the Health of Workers …
drilling and crushing locations at each of the quarry sites. At 25metres away from the quarry sites, mean SPM levels reduced drastically to 4.85±0.20mg/m 3 and 3.67±0.40mg/m 3. Both psychological and health problems suffered by nearby residents include shock (46.0%), nasal infection (29.2%), and asthma (4.6%). The quarry
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Quarry Garden | Shanghai, China
All together, the Shanghai government spent an estimated 2.1 billion yuan (US$319 million [2010]) on the project. The Quarry Garden is situated at the center of the botanical garden and covers an area of …
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Reclamation and reuse of abandoned quarry: A case study …
The Dawangshan Pit, an opencast limestone quarry with over 40-year mining history, has been converted into a fivestar hotel and theme park through the Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel ...
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COVID-19 epidemic and public health interventions …
Effective public health interventions helped slow the spread of COVID-19 in Shanghai, shorten the outbreak duration, and protect the healthcare system from stress. …
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Quarry Garden
The 10-acre Quarry Garden is located at the center of Shanghai Chen Mountain Botanical Garden. An abandoned rock quarry was transformed into an ecological public garden. A rocky area near the entrance was transformed into a new "biocoenosis" – a self-regulating ecological community. The land was reshaped and plants were established around ...
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This place is the pits: China opens luxury hotel in quarry
Shanghai - 15 November 2018: 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 for engineers working on the swanky 336-room InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland -- part of a $288 million (S$396 million) …
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Cross-Sectional Study Lung Function and Respiratory …
Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6068 3 of 13 sites by 0–500 m, and the control group, which included members living in the same town, whose houses are more than 500 m away from the quarry ...
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ENSIGN COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, KPONG …
effects on human health or the environment. Quarry pit: This is a surface excavation allocated to an operator within a quarry site for extracting building stone, construction aggregate, sand and gravel. xiii
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China Opens the World's First Underground 5-Star Hotel to the Public
November 16, 2018. The world's first underground luxury hotel in Songjiang, Shanghai is now accepting reservations beginning Nov. 20 with prices starting at 3,380 yuan ($490) a night. The hotel ...
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The unique quarry hotel has finally opened in …
Nov 19, 2018 • 1 min read. The world's first 'underground' hotel has officially opened inside the abandoned Shenkeng Quarry in Shanghai, China. After almost four years of construction, the InterContinental Shanghai …
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Air Quality Changes in Shanghai, China, and the …
This study evaluates air quality during the partial lockdown of Shanghai, the largest city in China, and the broader Yangtze River Delta region. It was found that daily …
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Lung Function and Respiratory Health of Populations …
The present study has investigated the environmental effects of quarrying activities on the populations living nearby and compared the respiratory health status of …
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Re-Build Landscape: Design for the Reuse of Abandoned Quarries …
In 2011, the city of Baux-de-Provence entrusted Culturespaces with the management of the quarry, as part of a public service delegation. Called "Carrières de Lumières", it is now the preferred place for setting up digital exhibitions Footnote 11 (Fig. 6 ), based on the concept developed AMIEX (Art & Music Immersive Experience).
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The Award Winning Quarry Garden Breathes Life …
The Quarry Garden is situated within the Chenshan Botanical Garden, the largest botanical garden in Shanghai. The 4.26-hectare space that comprised the quarry …
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THUPDI · Quarry Garden in Shanghai Botanical Garden · …
Site and Context. Quarry Garden is located at the center of Shanghai Chen Mountain Botanical Garden, covering an area of 4.26 hectares (10.53 acres). Chen Mountain is isolated in the Garden and is nearly 70 meters (229.7 feet) high. Its appearance has been greatly destroyed and two east-west quarries are formed between the early 20th Century ...
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An evaluation approach to spatial identity in historic urban …
Second, each characteristic space is evaluated from the public perception aspect, including visual perception and activities. Finally, the comprehensive spatial identity in historic urban areas is evaluated from the perspective of public perceptions, including integrative consideration of various characteristic spaces and issue analysis. 4.4.
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"Earth-scraper" hotel to open in Shanghai's unused …
SHANGHAI, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- An 88-meter-deep hotel, built vertically along the precipice of an underground, water-filled quarry, made its public debut in Shanghai Thursday.
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Quarry Garden
throughout the site, so that the site would maintain an industrial smell, rather than masking the site in a fragrant one. The vision of a destroyed natural environment returned back to nature in a new way invites visitors to contemplate the scars of industrialization and the forgiveness of nature. Quarry Garden Shanghai, China Project Resources
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Inside InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland: The World's First
A long abandoned former quarry in one of Shanghai's distant suburbs hardly seems like a promising site for a new resort. But more than a dozen years and $300 million later, the InterContinental ...
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Determining pulmonary function and the associated risk facto
Sampling design. A convenience sampling approach was adopted for the selection of quarry workers. For all the recruited quarry workers, age (±1 year) and gender-matched residents were selected from the surrounding area using the grid sampling method, where the entire study area was divided into a small 30 × 30 meter grid cells to form a sampling …
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Unique pit stop for guests opens its doors at last
The construction took 12 years to complete. A general view of the InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland, a hotel built on the site of a former quarry, before its opening to the public, in Shanghai, China, on …
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