Skyscraper Museum Hosts Multimedia Exhibit 'China Prophecy: Shanghai' Thru March 7

China Prophecy: Shanghai is a multimedia exhibition that examines Shanghai's evolving identity as a skyscraper metropolis. The exhibit runs at The Skyscraper Museum through March 7, 2010.

The exhibition takes a close look at Shanghai as a model for 21st century urbanism. Using architectural photography of recent towers, architectural drawings of existing and proposed towers and computer animations, documenting both the recent high-rise developments and future plans for the next generation of Shanghai's development, this installation will lead to an inquiry into the economics, laws, and culture shaping the present-day Chinese metropolises.

Click here for additional information on the exhibit. Click here for a Virtual Walkthrough of the exhibit. 

Museum hours are 12-6pm, Wednesday-Sunday. Tickets are $5; $2.50 for students and seniors.

The Skyscraper Museum is located at 39 Battery Place (Battery Pl/West St) in New York.

For more information, visit http://www.skyscraper.org/home_flash.htm

Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs and publications, the Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence.