Holiday Inn Express E’mei Qiliping / ZZHK Architects

As one of the four greatest Buddhism mountains in China, Mount. E’mei has been rated as the World Heritage of both nature and culture by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) since 1996. Qiliping is located at Hongya, Meishan, Sichuan. Qiliping is a part of Mount. E’mei. With about 1,300 meters of elevation, and only 26 kilometers from Golden Peak, the top of Mount. E’mei famous for the fabulous view it has, Qiliping is commonly known as a platform for viewing Golden Peak from distance. Having 300 square kilometers of forests in the surrounding mountains, 90% of the area of Qiliping is covered with trees. The average temperature in Qiliping during the summer is 24, which is about 5 to 8 lower compared to the urban area. More interestingly, an average of about 18,000 negative oxygen ions exist in per cube centimeters of air in Qiliping, which is 400 times more ample than the urban area. The tourism project “Zhoushandao” takes up 43.5 acres of land with 76,000 square meters of building area consisted of a main hotel building, 17 apartments, ridge clubhouse, and some hilltop villas. The hotel, Holiday Inn Express E’mei Qiliping, is the symbolic architecture of the project. As the biggest and the most wide-spread hotel management group in the world, InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG), the introduction of its subsidiary, Holiday Inn Express, to Qiliping successfully fulfils the shortage of high-quality and international hotels of the region.

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