China: Shanghai Museum (Shanghai Bowuguan) in People's Park (Renmin Gongyuan) with surrounding skyscrapers, Shanghai

Shanghai Museum holds more than 120,000 artifacts representing almost five millennia of continuous Chinese civilization. The Building was designed by Shanghai architect Xing Tonghe to represent a ding, or ancient three-legged bronze vessel. It also incorporates the sacred geometry of Yuanqiu, the circular altar at the Temple of Heaven (Tiantan) in Beijing, with a square base (representing the earth) surmounted by a circular superstructure (representing heaven). It was completed in 1996, and has five floors with a total area of more than 39,200sq.m (420,000 sq ft).