Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.

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One sight is striking -- a beautiful structure that could have passed as a hotel in a different era.

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