A rendering is presented during the foundation laying ceremony of the Shanghai Planetarium in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 8, 2016. Covering an area of 38,164 square meters, the planetarium will include a main building and ancillary constructions, such as an observation base for young people, a solar tower and observatory. (Photo/Xinhua)
Shanghai Planetarium (a branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum) broke ground on Tuesday morning at Lingang New City in Pudong New Area and will open to the public in 2020, according to eastday.com.
With an area of 58,000 square meters and a construction budget of 528 million yuan ($78.08 million), the planetarium is expected to be the largest in the world. The goal of the project was to build an energy-saving, ecological-friendly architecture.
Once constructed, the internal facilities will include a digital dome cinema and an optical planetarium to display complicated celestial movements and wonderful astronomical images of starry skies, solar systems and universe expeditions.
