Pangu Plaza
Building in Beijing, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pangu Plaza (Chinese: 盘古大观) is a five building mixed use complex comprising an office building, three apartment buildings, clubs, retail shops and the Pangu 7 Star Hotel (Pangu Seven Star Hotel), located at 27, North 4th Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang, Beijing, China.[1][2]
Shaped like a dragon,[3][4] it is a neighbor of many of the 2008 Beijing Olympic venues, including the Beijing National Stadium (Bird Nest) and the Beijing National Aquatics Center (Water Cube).[3][2] Also, it is close to the National Library, the fourth largest library in the world and the largest one in China.
The Pangu Plaza was designed by Chu-Yuan Lee of C.Y. Lee & Partners, the Taiwan-based architecture firm responsible for Taipei 101,[5][1][6] for the world's first traditional Chinese “courtyard in the sky".[3] The Pangu 7 Star Hotel occupies the first block of the "Pangu", and it contains two pavilions, a temple, a French restaurant, a Japanese restaurant, 234 guest rooms, with 140 suites, and a 600-metre-long (2,000 ft) corridor.[7][2]
The Pangu Plaza is a building invested and built by Guo Wengui in 2008.[8][9]
The “tail” building of Pangu Plaza "Pangu 7 Star Hotel" is one of the world's only two 7-star hotels.[5] The hotel is named "Pangu 7 Star Hotel Beijing" in spite of the fact that no traditional organization or formal body awards or recognizes any rating over "five-star deluxe", and in spite of the fact that customarily a hotel does not award itself stars. In the time-honored, international hotel rating tradition, 5 is the maximum number of stars awarded, so, for example, world-renowned establishments like Claridges or the Waldorf Astoria do not protest that they have been awarded "merely" 5 stars, as this is actually the highest award / rating. The Pangu 7 Star Hotel is considered to be the top luxury hotel in Beijing.[10] Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp., stayed at the hotel during the Beijing Olympics.[11]
Chinese authorities seized ownership of the tallest building of Pangu Plaza in 2016 and auctioned it for nearly 5.19 billion yuan. This building also houses the headquarters of IBM's China division.[8]
In 2023, the “head” of Pangu Plaza’s Tower A, which originally symbolised the head of a dragon, was subsequently ordered to be removed by the local authorities due to Feng Shui.
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