Even the Model of Shanghai is Huge
Look at this crazy place I found in Shanghai!
This was inside one of the many government buildings. It was a multi-story complex dedicated to the past, present, and future of Shanghai. It was filled with multimedia presentations on the water systems, photo exhibits of the Bund under British control, and video extrapolations of what the city would become in 2020.
Of all these cool things, the best was this gigantic model of Shanghai. I walked around it about five times, trying to get some kind of sense of how to photograph the dang thing. Then, finally, I decided to grab a shot that included a few tourists to show the scale of this monstrosity.
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Filed under the categories: China, Nikon D2XS, Shanghai, Travel
Incredible display here! What is the model made out of?
Really incredible!
It’s made out of cheese. (not really… not sure).
Great(and realistic) model there.
Hope there wouldn’t be any mice there ;P
Okay now that is the most impressive model! What a sight!
How fortunate for you and us that you happened to find that exhibit, Trey!!!!! How amazing. Can you imagine the time and patience it took to build that huge city to scale!!! Great photo and adding the other tourists did lend prospective to the view. Thanks again for sharing your wonderful pictures with us. Gives us a chance to see parts of the world we wouldn’t otherwise
Fantastic Trey – I don’t know if I’d ever have the patience to build this!
oh ya! model making is not easy!
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WOW! What an incredible model. I got exhausted just trying to think of all the work that went into this!
That is soooooo amazing! Such detail, so cool, great photo!
If I was 10,I would like this for my tonka trucks.
Okay, so wow! This is amazing. Now I totally want to go to Shanghai.
great shot
to be more specific: it’s the “Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall” at People’s Square. it’s quite impressing how fast this city changed in past and is changing. the latest mission of shanghai is “better city – better life” as 2010 china hosts the EXPO – unfortunately nowadays it’s the opposite, caused by the 24hrs/7days construction sites
to get the Huangpo (= river through shanghai) that blue they have to work very hard
yo this plan is insane dame !!!!!!!
the question is… does this model itself have its own model inside of it… a model of the model?
Now just add a thick layer of black smog…
I wonder which building it is,so dizzy
wondering if its recursive, i.e. if the building that contains the model, in the model also contains the model.. now that would be much harder to do..
what is that giant cylindrical building on the right?
jaja
what scale?
Yeah I know it’s not Japan but it would be so cool to have godzilla someplace in the middle of this.LOL
Amazing model!!
thanks all – yes I think this is an impressive model too… that’s funny zach… I bet if we look close, we can find a model of the same building inside this building.
Shouldn’t the water be brown for a more accurate representation?
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thak you this is amazing
Funny how the river is blue
Awesome, I bet my boys would love to play cars on that
Hi, this is incredible in more ways than one….I have been to Shanghai 4 times and really into this sort of thing and have never seen any info that would have lead me there.
do you know if it is advertised as an attraction.
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There are similar models of modern and ancient Beijing at the Urban Planning Museum in Beijing just south of Tiananmen Square. Also saw smaller ones in Tianjin.
It is from Urban Planning Museum of Shanghai in People square. It is 100:1, and all the buildings are existing already. And it is only for the inner ring of the city. It means it is model for the downtown only.
Currently, there are more bridges and buildings than this model.
The river is not blue in the reality. But it is government’s dream and target. Having nice dream is not bad!
I am a woman living in Shanghai. I visited this building 3 times.
This shows how overpopulated this spec in the world map is and I just can’t get over it.
@James: you’d be surprised how little smog there actually is in the city. It tends to be foggy in the mornings, but it usually clears up fully by mid-day. (I live in Shanghai now.)
The model is made of dominoes. Want to tip the first one?
where are all the starbucks?
There’s one just like it in Beijing! I saw it last week. There seem to be huge models in just about every museum too,
they need a way to model the pollution that will be floating around
Wohaaa…. It is Huge !!!!! Great piece of Art !!!
This is an Awesome ! Pic. Incredible buildings and architecture display. It makes me to plan a visit to Shanghai sometime
eh, so where’s the train?
Totally awesome! Can’t even start to imagine the hours put in!
Oh to be eleven again with firecrackers! jk
I can imagine that maybe a team of architects worked on this and worked on different sections each, but still, that’s a lot of hard work that finally paid off =D mind = blown!
Obviously photoshopped. I can tell because the pixels are all wrong. You can trust me on this because I am an expert. Please delete your fake post.
Thanks all.
Jarome… wrong. Make a big enough deal of it and I am happy to show more originals shot there. Trust me I’m an expert.
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LOL @ Jerome…you sound very much like my class mate (who’s in Year 10) who says the photography I have with a blurry background is “photoshopped” given he couldn’t achieve the same results with his point-and-shoot…