Located in the core area of Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone in Pudong, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Tower is a super high-rise building integrating functions of business, office, hotel, commerce, entertainment and sightseeing, with a total architectural height of 632 meters, 127 floors above ground and 5 floors underground. As the final masterpiece of the super high-rise building cluster in the core area of Lujiazui, Shanghai Tower has become an important carrier of Shanghai's financial service industry. Meanwhile, it also plays a vital role in optimizing the overall planning of Lujiazui area, improving urban space, enhancing the comprehensive supporting functions of Shanghai Financial Center and promoting the agglomeration of modern service industries.
The Top of Shanghai Observatory is the functional experience area of the building. In the 360-degree full-view Top of Shanghai Observatory, you can get a close view of the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center right under your feet, and overlook the World Expo Park, City God Temple, 80,000-seat Stadium and Hongqiao Airport at a glance, enjoying the scenery of Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River winding eastward into the Yangtze River and finally flowing into the East China Sea.
Growing Skyline: This exhibit is located in the preface hall of the Top of Shanghai Exhibition Hall on the B1 floor. With a 100-second real-scene restored animation film, it condenses and deduces the 170-year development history of the skyline growth of the Bund and Lujiazui since Shanghai opened its port in 1840. In the form of dynamic synthesis of images and sounds, it intuitively shows the ever-changing changes of Shanghai city: high-rise buildings spring up one after another, the height records are constantly refreshed, until Shanghai Tower becomes the new height and new landmark of Shanghai.
Shanghai's Shanghai Tower: This exhibition is divided into three themes: Charm of Shanghai, Height of Shanghai, and Shanghai's Shanghai Tower. Adopting the display method of combining motion and stillness, virtual and real, it intersperses dynamic images in static photos, showing people the Shanghai-style architectures of different periods and different styles from different perspectives, and gradually presents the representative buildings of this international metropolis in the process of development over time. These buildings, which are full of architectural aesthetics and profound historical and cultural heritage, are the urban connotation rich in Shanghai charm, representing inheritance and transcendence.
Skyscraper Dream: Adopting the domestic leading technology of motion self-luminous transparent screen combined with transparent crystal model, this exhibit comprehensively shows the mysteries of skyscrapers. It demonstrates the evolution of the world's tallest building with constantly refreshed heights since 1885, as well as the "skyscraper dream" that human beings have been pursuing continuously. It displays the world's tallest building rankings as of 2020, professionally provided by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), serving as a window to overview the world's high-rise buildings.
Gene Bank: The Gene Bank reveals the whole process of planning, birth and construction of Shanghai Tower, this vertical city. It simulates and displays more than 10 world-leading initiatives such as sky gardens and dampers, uncovering many unknown genetic structures of the building.
Vertical City: The Vertical City exhibition area adopts the world's cutting-edge 3D printing technology, uses an overall 1:350 nylon material printed model of the building, and adopts the new media display method of main screen plus sub-screens with integrated sound, light and electricity, to show the rich green, smart and humanistic connotations of Shanghai Tower, including rainwater collectors, double-layer glass curtain walls, BIM construction technology, Shanghai Girl, and Fish Joy Picture, conveying the concept of vertical city.
The Top of Shanghai Observatory is equipped with three of the world's fastest high-speed elevators, with a speed of up to 18 meters per second. It only takes 55 seconds to reach the Top of Shanghai Observatory on the 118th floor of Shanghai Tower. When taking the elevator, you can see the real-time running speed, height and orientation of the elevator through the screen. Every experiencer will be shocked by the speed of the elevator, and will also be deeply impressed by its comfort and stability.
Sky Post Office: Located at the Top of Shanghai on the 118th floor, every postcard records the beautiful scenery of the Top of Shanghai. Pick one for yourself or your relatives and friends to echo the mood and artistic conception at the moment. The message sent from the Top of Shanghai here is an eternal gift worth collecting.
Wishing Tree: The wishing tree on the 118th floor has also been fully upgraded. Write a wishing card or wishing blessing here, tie it to the cloud-side wishing tree with a red rope, and you will keep the memory moment of expecting the future, looking forward to more people making beautiful high "star" wishes at the Top of Shanghai.
Break Through the Sky: The Break Through the Sky interactive project uses advanced AV devices to let you feel the ultra-real experience brought by multimedia and physical height. When you are in the Top of Shanghai Observatory on the 118th floor, surrounded by the real scene of Lujiazui skyscraper group projected on the ground screen, with the advanced somatosensory hot spot control system, the virtual atmosphere creates the "crack" effect of breaking through the sky, and a thrilling challenge is about to begin.
Cloud Heart Lock: Hang a loving heart lock with your beloved one, make a devout wish and an eternal promise. Engrave the names of the loving couple on the lock, "lock" the two hearts tightly together to make their love last forever, leaving a happy witness at the Top of Shanghai Observatory.
Top of Shanghai Brand Store: The Top of Shanghai Brand Store is respectively located in the Top of Shanghai Observatory on the 118th floor and the sightseeing exit on the B2 floor, with a wide range of various commodities containing elements of Shanghai and Shanghai Tower.
