Completion of the main steel structure of the Shanghai Planetarium

At noon on June 12, with the completion of the installation, and welding of the truss the Shanghai Planetarium (Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Branch) was unloaded with a large cantilever structure, with a steel volume of more than 2,000 tons. This marked the successful conclusion of all the main steel structure projects of the Shanghai Planetarium, and the construction of the main structure achieved a staged victory.

The Shanghai Planetarium, built in Shanghai Lingang New City, is the largest planetarium in the world, and is expected to be completed by the end of 2020. Its construction project has a total land area of 58,602 square meters, and a construction area of 38,164 square meters of which, the above-ground construction area is 25,762 square meters and the underground construction area is 12,402 square meters, including the underground 1st floor and 3 floors of the main building, as well as the adolescent observation base, the Volkswagen Observatory, the Magic Sun Tower and other ancillary buildings. It was always the plan to build the world’s largest and world-class planetarium.

The three major exhibition areas interprets “people and the universe.”
At the Shanghai Planetarium site, you can see that its main building is shaped like three interstellar orbits, meaning that the spherical buildings of the earth, the moon and the sun “run”. The unique design of the “round hole skylight” and “balloon aura” on the main building, makes the building itself look like an astronomical “instrument”.