Quantum Of Solace

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ESO Hotel at Cerro Paranal (or Residencia) is the accommodation for Paranal Observatory in Chile since 2002.^[1] It is mainly used for the ESO (European Southern Observatory) scientists and engineers who work there on a roster system. It has been called a 'boarding house on Mars', because the desert surroundings are Mars-like,^[2] and an 'Oasis for astronomers'.^[3] It is not a commercial hotel, and the public cannot book rooms.^[4]

The architect was Hernán Marchant, a current Professor and Associate Dean at North Carolina State University and the constructor was Vial y Vives Ltda. of Chile.^[1] It won the Cityscape Architectural Review Awards in 2005.^[4] In 2004 it won the new and overall Leaf-Awards.^[4]

Location[edit]

The hotel is located at 2,400 meters (7,900 ft) above sea level on Cerro Paranal. The people there work in extreme climatic conditions including intense sunlight, dryness, high wind speeds and great fluctuations in temperature. To protect against these an artificial oasis was built to allow respite between shifts.

The total area is 10 000 m², with an L-shape of 176 m x 53 m. It has 4 levels, 1,000 m² of gardens, 108 rooms, and 18 offices.^[1] It includes a restaurant, music room, library, swimming pool, and sauna.^[1] Its inauguration was in February 2002.^[1]

The hotel complex, comprising four levels, fits into an existing depression in the ground. There are views across the desert to the Pacific Ocean from each of the 120 rooms and also from the dining room veranda. Also visible is a slightly raised dome comprising a steel skeleton that measures 35 meters (115 ft) in diameter.

The Residencia under construction at the end of 2000.^[3]
The ESO Hotel in 2012. ^[5]
The Garden of the Residencia in ESO Hotel
South West facade of the hotel at dusk.

In popular culture[edit]

The hotel's exterior was featured in the 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace,^[4] in which the structure was depicted as a fictional eco-hotel in Bolivia. A miniature of the hotel was built by the visual effects team for the shots where the hotel is destroyed.

References[edit]

2003 'Auer+Weber+Architekten Arbeiten 1980-2003 Works', Birkhäuser Publishers, Basel

^ ^a^b^c^d^eESO Residencia InsideArchived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ESO Hotel, Cerro Paranal, ChileArchived 2013-04-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a^b'An Oasis for Astronomers — ESO's Paranal Residencia Then and Now'. ESO Picture of the Week. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
^ ^a^b^c^dHotel on Mars
^'Building the Paranal Residencia — From Turbulence to Tranquility'. ESO Picture of the Week. Retrieved 13 February 2013.

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Hotel/Residencia, InsideCoordinates: 24°38′25″S70°23′18″W / 24.64028°S 70.38833°W
Tour of the hotel filmed by Brady Haran

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There have been a number of comments in the media regarding the title for the next James Bond film, and not understanding its meaning. However, it seems to be rather lazy journalism because the answer can be found in a collection of James Bond short stories.

Quantum of Solace is the title of a story published in For Your Eyes Only in which James Bond plays a very small part. Bond is attending a dinner party hosted by the Governor for The Bahamas at the end of a week in Nassau before leaving for Miami, in which he feels completely out of place. Once the other guests have left, Bond and the Governor and make small talk to pass the hour or so before Bond feels he can also depart. When he makes a remark about wanting to marry an air hostess, the Governor proceeds to tell a story that he says Bond may find interesting.

The Governor’s story is about a man who meets and marries an air hostess after meeting her on a flight. However, after a posting to Bermuda their marriage began to unravel and when he finally leaves his wife, he makes sure he does everything possible to destroy her life. The story ends with the Governor telling Bond that a relationship “can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people” and that all kinds of obstacles can be overcome in a relationship, but not “the death of common humanity in one of the partners”.

He rather pretentiously calls this the “Quantum of Solace” – or as Bond explains it – “the amount of comfort… When the other person not only makes you feel insecure but actually seems to want to destroy you, it’s obviously the end. The Quantum of Solace stands at zero.”

The Governor then reveals that the wife had been one of the dinner party guests.

Quantum of Solace was first published in 1960 and seems to be a comment on the state of Ian Fleming’s marriage at the time, although according to Andrew Lycett’s excellent biography of Fleming, it was based on a true story he’d heard in Jamaica.

Since the film will be picking up an hour after Casino Royale ends, in which the love of 007’s life is not only dead but revealed to be a traitor, make your own conclusions as to what the title means.