Pangu Plaza

The Pangu Plaza (Chinese: 盘古大观) is a five mixed used buildings complex comprises an office building, three apartment buildings, clubs, retail and Pangu 7 Star Hotel (Pangu Seven Star Hotel) which located at 27, North 4th Ring Middle Road, Chaoyang, Beijing, China.[1][2] Shaped like a dragon,[3][4] it is neighbor with 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] Pangu 7 Star Hotel occupies the "First Block" of the "Pangu", and it contains two pavilions, a temple, a French restaurant, a Top Class Japanese restaurant, 234 luxurious guest rooms, with 140 suites, and a 600-meter-long corridor.[7][2]Pangu Plaza is an iconic building invested and built by Guo Wengui in 2008.[8][9]

Pangu Plaza Photo


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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]Warren Buffett and Henry Kissinger have been lounging there.[3]

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Footnotes
  1. "Pangu Plaza | Buildings | EMPORIS". www.emporis.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  2. "Beijing China Tourist Website". 3 February 2013.
  3. Barboza, David (2008-08-20). "In Beijing, No Making Heads or Tails of a New Building". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. "Creditors put fugitive Guo Wengui's dragon head-shaped Pangu Plaza on the auction block at a steep discount to recoup debt". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  5. "Enter The Dragon Building: Beijing China's Pangu Plaza". WebUrbanist. 2011-10-30. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  6. "Beijing Tourist Website". 3 February 2013.
  7. "Pangu 7 Star Hotel Beijing (北京盘古七星酒店)". SinoHotel.com. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  8. Oscar Holland; Serenitie Wang. "Seized Beijing skyscraper sells online for a 'bargain' $734M". CNN. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. Hood, Bryan (2019-08-22). "This Beijing Skyscraper, Seized by Chinese Authorities, Just Sold for $734 Million Online". Robb Report. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  10. 盘古七星公馆当世无来者 (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  11. 比尔·盖茨年租七星盘古四合院公寓 (in Chinese). Retrieved 26 January 2010.

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