Shanghai's New Opera House Opens With a Gravity-Defying Staircase

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorShanghai has a new opera house, and the thing everyone is talking about is the staircase, which the Good News Network calls gravity-defying.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTen years of design work, three auditoriums, and the star of the building is a staircase.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe firm is Snøhetta, from Norway, and the spiral connects the ground level to a rooftop observation deck over the river and the skyline.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the rooftop is free.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAccess is free of charge, and the roof reaches out thirty-two meters at its boldest point. I'd call that an open-door programming strategy.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty-two hundred seats, three auditoriums, and the best view in the building is the one with no tenor.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe designers say the roof draws on a folding fan and an opera dancer's skirt, so the building is technically in costume.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFine, my theory is the architects planned the staircase photo first and then built the opera around it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTen years, forty-two hundred seats, and the one thing people will post is the way out.