INSTITUTO FUTURISTA

Um mundo! Um nunca acabar de terra grossa, fragosa, bravia, que tanto se levanta a pino num ímpeto de subir ao céu, como se afunda nuns abismos de angústia, não se sabe por que telúrica contrição.
Terra-Quente e Terra-Fria. Léguas e léguas de chão raivoso, contorcido, queimado por um sol de fogo ou por um frio de neve. Serras sobrepostas a serras. Montanhas paralelas a montanhas. Nos intervalos, apertados entre os rios de água cristalina, cantantes, a matar a sede de tanta angústia. E de quando em quando, oásis da inquietação que fez tais rugas geológicas, um vale imenso, dum húmus puro, onde a vista descansa da agressão das penedias. Mas novamente o granito protesta. Novamente nos acorda para a força medular de tudo. E são outra vez serras, até perder de vista.

Miguel Torga: Um Reino Maravilhoso

The innovative design of the 400-bed resort hotel stands two levels higher than the rock face of the 100 metre deep quarry and includes underwater public areas and guestrooms. It will incorporate conference facilities for up to 1,000 people, a banqueting centre, restaurants, cafés and sports facilities. Sustainability is integral to the design ranging from using green roofing for the structures above the ground level to geothermal energy extraction."

The Songjiang Hotel will be a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry close to Shanghai in China, and is expected to be completed by May, 2009. The Shangaiist says, "Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.

The innovative design of the 400-bed resort hotel stands two levels higher than the rock face of the 100 metre deep quarry and includes underwater public areas and guestrooms. It will incorporate conference facilities for up to 1,000 people, a banqueting centre, restaurants, cafés and sports facilities. Sustainability is integral to the design ranging from using green roofing for the structures above the ground level to geothermal energy extraction."

4 organic shaped apartment towers are situated in a free, playful and humanistic urban landscape. the towers consist of elliptical floor plans creating elliptical balconies which shift position moving upwards. the result is playful in its appearance, with several pragmatic advantages too.

via: designboom