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Old 07-21-2009, 12:42 AM   #1
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July 21, 2009: Tianzi Hotel

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To begin, this incredible hotel seems to have a few different names depending on what you read, as far as I can tell it has been known as: Tianzi Hotel, The Emperor Hotel, Son Of Heaven Hotel, and, in Chinese, 天子大酒.
The hotel is located in Hebei Province and according to Chinese architecture blog CAIP it was built some time around 2000/2001, The building is 10 storeys/41.6m high and was designed to represent Fu Lu Shou (good fortune, prosperity and longevity). The blog also points out that the hotel won a Guiness World Record for being the world's 'biggest image building'. Largest mimetic building perhaps?

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Finally, you'll notice that Shou, the chap on the left as you face the hotel, is holding what is apparently a peach. That peach is actually a suite within the hotel, the two holes in its front being windows.
And I thought the Japs were wacky.

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Old 07-21-2009, 04:50 AM   #2
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If the ALSRC-04 design had been a little imaginative like this, perhaps they would not have lost it for so long.
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Old 07-21-2009, 08:04 AM   #3
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Is there a room in the head? I mean, of course, one of the heads on top the necks.
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Old 07-21-2009, 08:24 AM   #4
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Knowing how the Chinese industrial process is sometimes, is the whole thing made out of papier-mâché?!
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:05 AM   #5
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Paper Mache & Plywood

No, probably only the faces and hands are paper mache, you can see they cleverly made most of the other areas flat so they could use big strips of plywood glue-gunned together I bet. I'm sure the couple layers of shelac should keep the water out anyway through right? :p
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:11 AM   #6
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Look like giant nesting dolls to me.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:16 AM   #7
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All together now:

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Made into a hotel (4 star)..."
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:23 AM   #8
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That first king, what's he holding? That looks like a lemon boobie with a smiley face.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:51 AM   #9
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It looks like that giant Pikachu blow up.
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Old 07-21-2009, 10:59 AM   #10
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Old 07-21-2009, 11:04 AM   #11
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That first king, what's he holding? That looks like a lemon boobie with a smiley face.
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Finally, you'll notice that Shou, the chap on the left as you face the hotel, is holding what is apparently a peach. That peach is actually a suite within the hotel, the two holes in its front being windows.
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Old 07-21-2009, 11:11 AM   #12
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Surrreee, that's a peach. It's the ugliest darn peach I ever saw.

eta: sorry, I never read your posts, bruce.
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Old 07-21-2009, 12:05 PM   #13
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OMG...I have to stay in that peach room. I'm adding that to my list.
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You all have it wrong. The guy on the left is about to unleash Pacman on the world, the guy on the right is doing the same with his rubber ducky, and the guy in the middle is holding a giant razor, which he used to cut off that pink thing, which is his... er...OMG!
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