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Designing hotels For The people's Republic of China

Gregory Mun Biu Tong is vice president and corporate treasurer of Wimberly, Whisenand, Allison, Tong and Goo, a Honolulu-based architectural firm, and received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Kansas State University. Last September, Chinese officials invited Tong to tour the People’s Republic and recommend sites for hotel development in various cities, and these visits ultimately led to the government’s approval of the two hotel projects reported in the present article. AMONG THE FACILITIES we recently incorporated into our design plans for a proposed hotel were many conventional amenities : a cocktail lounge, a coffee shop, a swimming pool. But the Huashan Hotel will also boast such features as an underground air-raid shelter, parking for 400 bicycles, and living quarters for 300 staff members because it will be constructed in the People’s Republic of China, where design must reflect ways of thought and styles of living radically different from our own. In undertaking the design of two Chinese hotels Shanghai’s Huashan Hotel and a Kweilin resort property, whose more conventional features and construction plans are described in the box on page 35 we had much to learn about the current state of Chinese