The latest "groundscraper"—the opposite of a skyscraper, in a sense, as it burrows down into the ground—is the Intercontinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland, a 380-room luxury hotel in China. The $555M project, a full 19 stories grafted into the side of a pit, has just broken ground as one part of an 428,000-square-meter theme park. [Architizer]
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