Park Hyatt Shanghai

Park Hyatt Shanghai occupies the crown of a tower whose design became a diplomatic headache: the architect William Pedersen planned a circular moon gate at the top, until Shanghai's mayor and residents read it as a rising sun on wartime Japan's flag, since the developer was Japanese. The guide follows how Pedersen redrew the tower in 2005 to defuse the objection, and the nickname locals gave the finished shape instead. Listen for how a piece of cloth ended up reshaping a skyscraper hundreds of meters above the Huangpu River.