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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May 26th, 2009 00:47 | Matthew
Incredible display here! What is the model made out of?
May 26th, 2009 00:49 | Trey Ratcliff
Really incredible!
It’s made out of cheese. (not really… not sure).
May 26th, 2009 03:01 | Xen
Great(and realistic) model there.
Hope there wouldn’t be any mice there ;P
May 26th, 2009 07:30 | Scott Webb
Okay now that is the most impressive model! What a sight!
May 26th, 2009 08:50 | Gail Moshier
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
May 26th, 2009 10:42 | casusan
Fantastic Trey – I don’t know if I’d ever have the patience to build this!
May 26th, 2009 12:08 | Indibang
oh ya! model making is not easy!
May 26th, 2009 12:52 | Wayne
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May 26th, 2009 13:04 | Joy
WOW! What an incredible model. I got exhausted just trying to think of all the work that went into this!
May 26th, 2009 14:54 | Richard Uchytil
That is soooooo amazing! Such detail, so cool, great photo!
May 26th, 2009 18:21 | Jeannie
If I was 10,I would like this for my tonka trucks.
May 26th, 2009 18:36 | Deek Dubberly
Okay, so wow! This is amazing. Now I totally want to go to Shanghai.
May 27th, 2009 00:41 | nottiat
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
May 27th, 2009 04:25 | Yasha Gardashov
yo this plan is insane dame !!!!!!!
May 27th, 2009 04:39 | zach
the question is… does this model itself have its own model inside of it… a model of the model?
May 27th, 2009 06:17 | James
Now just add a thick layer of black smog…
May 27th, 2009 06:37 | Mandy Li
I wonder which building it is,so dizzy
May 27th, 2009 07:58 | leo
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..
May 27th, 2009 08:56 | drewster
what is that giant cylindrical building on the right?
jaja
May 27th, 2009 11:15 | Cody
what scale?
May 27th, 2009 13:03 | Rod
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!!
May 27th, 2009 14:50 | Stuck In Customs
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.
May 27th, 2009 20:24 | Damien
Shouldn’t the water be brown for a more accurate representation?
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May 27th, 2009 20:52 | baipo
thak you this is amazing
May 27th, 2009 21:28 | mattofsmeg
Funny how the river is blue
May 28th, 2009 04:06 | hotwheelsfanatic
Awesome, I bet my boys would love to play cars on that
May 28th, 2009 18:17 | Judi
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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May 30th, 2009 09:44 | moom
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.
May 30th, 2009 10:37 | amanda du
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.
May 30th, 2009 12:42 | John
This shows how overpopulated this spec in the world map is and I just can’t get over it.
June 1st, 2009 20:41 | hari
@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.)
June 2nd, 2009 12:11 | Linda McGuire
The model is made of dominoes. Want to tip the first one?
June 3rd, 2009 17:30 | EB
where are all the starbucks?
June 5th, 2009 01:49 | Nick Robinson
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,
June 7th, 2009 17:02 | guitarpick
they need a way to model the pollution that will be floating around
June 8th, 2009 01:24 | Subhash Bohra
Wohaaa…. It is Huge !!!!! Great piece of Art !!!
June 8th, 2009 01:25 | krishna
This is an Awesome ! Pic. Incredible buildings and architecture display. It makes me to plan a visit to Shanghai sometime
June 8th, 2009 01:32 | Gary
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
June 8th, 2009 06:49 | Reika
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!
August 2nd, 2009 07:21 | Jerome VanHoff
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.
August 2nd, 2009 11:09 | Stuck In Customs
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.