Comments on: Ordos Hilton Hotel by VMX Architects

By: yrag

yrag — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:46:14 +0000

I love it! Since my chances of making it to Ordos Inner Mongolia are fairly slim, I’m looking forward to see the finished project.

BTW @ Alexander Etchells—so what the hell are you doing here—National Geographic is calling.

By: mama

mama — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:53:54 +0000

Go New Dubai! Just what Mongolia needs. Genghis Khan would have been proud.
Now I need to ask: Ai Weiwei’s father was apparently denounced by the communists and sent off to the gulag. While hundreds of thousands of peasants were dying under the communist rule though, young Ai was having fun at the Film Academy and spent the 80′s having more fun in New York? He’s been involved with H & deM on the Bird’s Nest but has then been critical of the Olympic Games, accusing others of exploitation. He seems to be everywhere where money’s no object. Could anyone shed some light on this hypocrisy?

By: MRN

MRN — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:52:15 +0000

In this bad economy times, large scale hotel with the idea of an escape from reality is absurd. Can’t we re-think hotels now because this is more of a rich pompous castle that redicules the people around it. Inner Mongolia social fabric will present New Utopian Grand Plastic Society as the mirror image to Sin City.

By: g

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:49:32 +0000

J says ‘no til the casket drop’ ??

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:13:23 +0000

It does really look like a UFO, or moon base.. What worries me about most of these Mongolian\ORDOS projects is the lack of specific local context in the description and images.. They all seem to be sitting out in the middle of some blank generic expanse of countryside, and correspondingly the architecture looks like it could be dropped down in any landscape, anywhere. What is it relating to exactly? You do get the feeling that the architects are just using it as excuse to go wild with whatever fantasy ideas they’ve been storing up, as opposed to taking the specific traditions and topography of the area into account. The line in the text about a plan shape being chosen to make the hotel easy to find in Google Earth made me laugh out loud…