Beside it, its neighbourhood: buildings and water from OpenStreetMap, the ground from the map's terrain tiles.
- Height
- 468 m1,535 ft
- Completed
- 1994
- By
- Jiang Huan Chen
- Coordinates
- 31° 14′ 23″ N121° 29′ 59″ E · 31.2397, 121.4998
Three columns on three raking legs, threading a 50-metre sphere near the ground and a 45-metre one high up, small spheres between them and a third above, under the mast.
Modelled from simple shapes at roughly its true size, and rendered in clay. The map draws the rest the one way it draws everything: the ground under Shanghai, as contour lines coloured by height, with its water and its names.
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