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Wafer-thin building entrances public
By:Wu Qiong  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2019-04-03 13:08

With China’s juggernaut economy countless buildings have popped up throughout China in the past decade. This month, however, it’s an old building on Shanghai’s Ningbo Road that has risen to prominence for appearing to be as thin as a piece of paper.

The polygonal structure is a five-storey building completed in the 1930s. Observed from the crossroads between Middle Fujian Road and Ningbo Road, the building appears unremarkable from the front. But when viewed from the side, people are wowed that the right-hand side of the wedge-shaped building is only around 20-centimeter wide. The razor-sharp edge gives the optical illusion of the building being incredibly flat and has thus been monikered the “paper building” by the city’s residents.

Around 40 households live in the building. According to a resident surnamed Chen who has lived there for over two decades, they are already used to the strange appearance. He said many people came to take photos of the optically illusory building these days, which has been widely circulated by Shanghai media, raising the eyebrows of netizens.

This building in Shanghai is far from the only such structure in China, however. A similar building also exists in the city of Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province.


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