What the hell are those black things on the top? I assume windows. They look like creepy eyes.
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He said he smashed a train station into a stadium, so imma assume those are skylights from the train station. I googled train station skylight to try and find an example, and I found this.
So I assume like that. But real. And round. And on a building.
In a serious attempt to describe the building, it's a combination of a small number of buildings to try to make an interesting building at least. The structure over the roof is based on this:


Except less of a depressing gray saucer-shaped shit and more like a glass and steel structure. If you ever looked at windows during the day you don't usually see what's inside all that well as I find.
And the rest of it borrows sort of from the Great Hall Of The People in Beijing and the Beijing Trainstation:


One a little more than the other.
Since the Seven Nations Pond is in the heart of Shanghai, which before everything got tore down to erect massive luxury hotels and office sky-scrapers would have looked more like a contemporary European city...



... I didn't think it would have been wholly appropriate for it to totally embrace full-on Chinese style, but to try and be an "international building" in that it has to look like it'll embrace the world and not just China.