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(BEIJING, CHINA) -- The 420-room, 18-story, multi-million-dollar Intercontinental Beijing Beichen, once home to the world's top athletes, is now open to business travelers and the general public.

Designed by international architects RMJM of London,  the hotel has been refitted after hosting the athletes during last year's Beijing Olympics.
 

Ross Milne

"RMJM prides itself on buildings which provide a lasting legacy and so it's fantastic to see this luxury hotel, which was designed initially to house the sporting heroes of the Olympics, now offering luxury accommodation to tourists and business travelers on such a notable and historic site," says RMJM project director Ross Milne.

RMJM also designed the nearby 443-bed, four-star China National Convention Center Grand Hotel, two office blocks and a retail mall in a fully integrated master plan to support the Convention Center's commercial goals.

The steel-and-glass Intercontinental Beijing Beichen has a state-of-the-art fitness center, spa, indoor pool and three restaurants. Private dining rooms and meeting rooms can accommodate groups of between 10 to 900 persons.

Intercontinental Beijing Beichen

The hotel is diagonally opposite Beijing's "Bird's Nest" stadium and is connected by a bridge to the National Convention Center, also designed by RMJM in an abstract form of a traditional pagoda.

The Convention Center initially housed the biggest media center ever built in the history of the Olympics, hosting 20,000 journalists from around the world reporting on the Games.

The hotel is also just steps away from the 'Watercube' national aquatic center, co-designed by John Pauline, as part of the ARUP and CCDI consortium, who now heads up RMJM's dedicated sports design studio. 

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