Dragon Gate
| Status: | | | Construction Dates | | Finished | 1986 | | Floor Count | 10 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - unused | | - education | | - hotel | | - museum | | - religious | | - residential | | - restaurant | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | - statue |
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Description
Originally built as the ”Hotel Älvkarlen” in the 1980s. It was sold to a Chinese businessman in the mid 2000s to be redeveloped as a Swedish-Chinese cultural centre.
Critique about below-standard construction, lack of permits, bankruptcy and several changes of ownership followed, all while the centre (as of 2025) still hasn’t opened.
The complex includes a 160 m long arcade with the world’s longest wooden relief, a 200 figures copy of the Terracotta Army and a 15 m tall Guanyin statue.
It was also planned to include a martial arts school and a buddhist temple.
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