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The Longemont Shanghai

building in Shanghai, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7748304 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Longemont Shanghai (Chinese: 上海龙之梦大酒店; pinyin: Shànghǎi Lóngzhīmèng DàJiǔdiàn) is a skyscraper and mixed use building in the Changning District of Shanghai, China. It contains the Longemont Hotel as well as office space. It is 218 metres (715 ft) high, has 53 stories and was completed in 2005.

See also

List of tallest buildings in Shanghai

External links

"The Longemont". SkyscraperPage.

Editorial summary

“The Longemont Shanghai” enters the record as building in Shanghai, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Longemont, Shanghai and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Longemont, Shanghai and building.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Longemont Shanghai” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Longemont, Shanghai and building provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7748304. Authority coordinates are 31.213, 121.426. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Longemont Shanghai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Longemont Shanghai primary sources, The Longemont Shanghai archive and Longemont research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Longemont Shanghai”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Longemont Shanghai” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.