Hotel Xiangjiang, how to Move House. Literally.

  • Xiangjiang Hotel was moved
Xiangjiang Hotel in its final location
 

Have you ever moved house? What a pain! What if your house were a piece of China's architectural heritage? That was the dilemma facing engineers in Hunan Province -to preserve the historic Xiangjiang Hotel, they needed to move it 35 metres. Rolling slowly over thousands of metal poles, the move took just 40 hours. Oh, and 8 years of planning!