This eight-story project by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music has an impressive horseshoe-shaped opera house, four rehearsal rooms, a lecture hall, and a handful of terraces on the top floor. The opera house itself has 1,200 seats across four tiers, with a touchscreen display fitted in the back of each one that shows subtitles in nine different languages. They have pulled out all the stops for this one. The opera house is constructed on a spring isolator that cuts out the vibrations from the metro line directly beneath.