Hotel set Within a Beautiful Water-Filled Quarry

From the website http://www.freshome.com this is a picture of a resort hotel set within a beautiful 100 meter deep quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. The project is to be complete in 2009.

25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Urban Overgrowth to Awesome Arbosculpture

My Gram who lives in Illinois on the edge of Lake Michigan tires of reading all of the political posts (though she dutifully slogs through them) so every once in a while I like to mix it up a bit. This one is for you Gram!