If Chinese deities still hold sway, then guests at the Tianzi Hotel in China’s Hebei province can count on a happy stay. That’s because the colorful building depicts Fu, Lu and Shou, the Chinese gods of good fortune, prosperity and longevity. Shou, the jolly figure with the white beard, welcomes guests through a door in his right foot. His right hand holds a peach, which is actually a suite. Guinness World Records named the hotel the world’s “biggest image building.”
15 Buildings That Don’t Look Like Buildings
Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel resembles a giant ballistic missile. As the so-called “Hotel of Doom” prepares to open in 2013, TIME looks at 15 buildings that don’t look like buildings
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15 Buildings That Don't Look like Buildings
- Ryugyong Hotel
- Indira Gandhi Planetarium
- National Fisheries Development Board Building
- Chang Building
- Aldar Properties Headquarters
- Longaberger Basket Company Home Office
- Tianzi Hotel
- National Library of Belarus
- Flame Towers
- Lotus Temple
- Cross # Towers
- Fang Yuan Building
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- The Experience Music Project
- London Aquatics Centre