Shangri-La Shougang Park - Beijing

Fourteen years later, the Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding Championships of the XXIV Winter Olympics took place here. Lissoni Casal Ribeiro have now repurposed the power plant at the old industrial complex into a luxurious hotel for the Shangri-La chain.

Lissoni Casal Ribeiro had the steelworks’ power plant gutted to its concrete skeleton and the steel roof truss before redesigning the structure as the main building of the tripartite complex. On three sides, they have covered it in an all-glass facade behind which the original structure remains visible. To the west, a new structure extends the ensemble. In contrast to the transparent facade of the pre-existing building, its closed facade is clad with dark-coloured ceramic plates. A bridge on the second upper level joins the third building, where 282 guest rooms are located over eight different storeys, to the main edifice.

Source: Lissoni & Partners