Atrium at Cloud Nina shopping mall, Shanghai

Longemont (, literally: 'Dragon's Dream', also known as Cloud Nine Shopping Mall or Shanghai Summit Shopping City) is a 60-floor, tall

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

with a

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at its base, and offices and Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel as its main body, completed in 2006 and located in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

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Overview

The building is primarily a shopping mall at the lower levels. The mall is home to many multinational retailers such as Uniqlo, C&A, and

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, and is also connected to a Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel. At night the skyscraper is lit by floodlights attached to the outside walls. Longemont is located in western Shanghai, near

Zhongshan Park Zhongshan Park () is a common name for Chinese parks, in honour of Sun Yat-sen, better-known in Chinese as Sun Zhongshan, who is considered by many to be the " Father of modern China". Currently there are more than 40 Zhongshan Parks in China, and ...

. The park itself is just to the north and to the north of that is

Suzhou Creek Suzhou Creek (or Soochow Creek), also called the Wusong (Woosung) River, is a river that passes through the Shanghai city center. It is named after the neighboring city of Suzhou (Soochow), Jiangsu, the predominant settlement in this area prior ...

. An accident with an escalator in August 2015 resulted in the amputation of a man's leg.

Transport

The skyscraper are immediately northeast of the Zhongshan Park Station on

Shanghai Metro Line 2 Line 2 is an east–west line in the Shanghai Metro network. With a length of nearly , it is the second longest line in the metro system after line 11. Line 2 runs from in the west to in the east, passing Hongqiao Airport, the Huangpu river, an ...

, Line 3, and Line 4. It can be seen from Lines 3 and 4, which are elevated at this point.

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2006 establishments in China Buildings and structures completed in 2006 Shopping malls in Shanghai Skyscrapers in Shanghai Skyscraper office buildings in Shanghai Skyscraper hotels in Shanghai Changning District {{PRChina-struct-stub

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