(Chengdu, 30 Nov 2017) In alignment with Swire Hotels’ vision, The Temple House has prepared a series of seasonal celebrations and festive decorations, with sustainability theme. This year, The Festive House presents a White Christmas with whimsical and magical elements. Natural and reusable materials are mostly used as festive decorations. The Christmas tree located in the courtyard of The Temple House, is composed by 7000 recycled aluminum shells of used tea-light candles, collected from Daci Temple. And the metal structure of the Christmas Tree is reused this year, and for many more years to come. Christmas Bazaar was hosted in the afternoon of the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, and all the proceeds are to support local non-profit projects. Local artists were commissioned to create murals on wall panels, as a creative way to introducing seven Swire Hotels to the audiences.
Going forward, The Temple House will keep celebrating festive seasons with “sustainability” and “community” in mind.
Sustainable Christmas tree lighting ceremony
The tree-lighting ceremony was held in the evening of 25th November. Prestige guests, including government officials, the media and the Abbot of Daci Temple, were invited to celebrate the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. The night was warmed up with the performances of Woo Zeal Acappella Choir, the children of Soong Ching Ling International Kindergarten, as well as The Temple House’s very own talented staffs.
The centerpiece of the evening, the 2017 Sustainable Christmas Tree, was made by using 7000 aluminum shells of used tea-light candles, collected from Daci Temple in Sino Ocean TaikooLi. Through this collaboration, community relationship was enhanced, as well as the awareness of surrounding cultural heritage and architecture was being cultivated.
Christmas Bazaar
Traditional and nostalgic seasonal treats and beverages could be found at the Christmas Bazaar. All the proceeds are to support local non-profit projects, such as Rotary Club Chengdu and YMCA’s “Summer Camp for Left Behind Children,” and Animals Asia’s bear base in Chengdu.
Local Artists Commissioned to introduce Swire Hotels via Murals
Following last year’s success with showcasing the “Golden Monkey Sculpture” by Australian artist Lisa Roet, The Temple House is in collaboration this year with Chengdu-based young artists, to create three murals outside of MIXUN Spa, The Temple Café, and JING bar, as a creative way to introducing all seven Swire Hotels to the audiences. All murals are themed with holiday components, local elements, as well as The House Collective (The Opposite House, The Upper House, The Temple House and The Middle House) and EAST series (East Beijing, East Hong Kong, and East Miami). These murals are also to celebrating the soon opening of The Middle House in March, 2018.
Going forward, The Temple House will keep celebrating festive seasons with “sustainability” and “community” in mind.
About The Temple House
The Temple House is located in the heart of the city within the Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu. The 100-room hotel and its 42 adjoining serviced apartments form an integral part of the city government’s conservation project to preserve the surrounding heritage buildings next to the thousand-year-old Daci Temple. The three-dimensional woven façade combines modern design with the traditional Chengdu architectural elements of timber, brick and step stones. Elegant bamboo trees frame the hotel’s entrance, which is set in a beautifully restored hundred-year-old Chinese courtyard building first built in the Qing Dynasty. The Temple House also offers a dynamic collection of outlets including The Temple Café - the all-day dining restaurant and French Bistro, TIVANO – an authentic Italian restaurant, Jing Bar featuring live DJs, MIXUN Spa and Teahouse.
About The House Collective
The House Collective, including The Opposite House, The Upper House, The Temple House and The Middle House is a group of small, individual hotels in Asia for seasoned travellers who seek a different, intimate and personalised experience in luxury travel. Each with its own distinctive character and sense of style, The House Collective is a group of refined, highly individual hotels that defy comparison.
For more information, please visit www.the-house-collective.com and www.thetemplehousehotel.com
About Swire Hotels and Swire Restaurants
Swire Hotels has been created to manage soulfully individual hotels in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the USA, providing a characterful experience for well travelled individually minded travellers who seek originality, style and personalised service. We create distinctive hotels with a sense of place that break with convention.
The company’s first hotel, The Opposite House in Beijing, opened in 2008 and was followed by The Upper House, Hong Kong, and then by EAST, Hong Kong and EAST, Beijing. The Temple House in Chengdu was opened in July 2015 and EAST, Miami in 2016. By the end of March, 2018, The Middle House will be open in Shanghai.
A restaurant division was set up in 2013 to manage the company’s stand-alone restaurant operations. Our first restaurant Plat du Jour opened in November 2013 followed by Public and Ground Public in Quarry Bay. The Continental in Pacific Place opened in October 2014 and Mr & Mrs Fox in Taikoo Place in 2015. Our latest addition, the second Plat du Jour opened in Pacific Place in January 2016.
About Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu
Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu is a 250,000 sqm (approx. 2,710,000 sq ft) mixed-use development located in the heart of Jinjiang District, south of Dacisi Road, east of Shamao Street and close to the popular Chunxi Road shopping area. The project comprises an over 100,000 sqm (over 1,140,000 sq ft) open-plan low-rise retail mall; a 100-room intriguing urban hotel, The Temple House, managed by Swire Hotels; 42 serviced apartments as well as a 47-storey Grade A office tower, Pinnacle One. The complex will be conveniently accessible from the interchange station of Metro Lines 2 and 3.
Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu embraces the historic Daci Temple and takes pride in the reinvigoration of surrounding heritage buildings. Welcoming lanes, courtyards, plazas with architecture inspired by traditional and modern streets in the east and west make it unique in Chengdu. Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu won the Silver Award for Best Urban Regeneration Project in MIPIM Asia Awards 2012.
Sino-Ocean Taikoo Li Chengdu between Swire Properties Limited and Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited had opened since 2014.
For more media queries, please contact:
Ms. Grace Chuang
Director of Communications, The Temple House
Tel: +86 28 6297 4048
Email: [email protected]
Mr. Jeremy Tran
Reuter Communications
Tel: +86 21 6225 5339 x 807
Email: [email protected]
