New Beijing Poly Plaza, Architectural structure in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China

New Beijing Poly Plaza is a 24-story building with a 90 meter tall central atrium whose glass walls are supported by a cable network system. The structure combines office spaces, retail areas, and cultural facilities within one cohesive design.

Construction began on 18 May 2003 and the complex was completed on 20 October 2006, not 2007. It was developed by Beijing New Poly Plaza Real Estate, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill with the Beijing Special Engineering Design and Research Institute, and built by China State Construction. After completion, the China Poly Group headquarters and the Poly Museum moved here from the older Poly Plaza across the road.

The hanging structure is called the lantern because its pleated glass shape resembles a Chinese folded lantern. Inside, bronze walls enclose the Poly Museum, whose collection of bronze antiquities is among the foremost in China, and the museum's stated aim is to repatriate Chinese antiquities. Walkways between the glass and bronze walls let visitors see the light and shadow effects.

The complex stands at the southwest corner of the Dongsi Shitiao bridge on the 2nd Ring Road, with Exit D of Dongsi Shitiao Station on Line 2 beside it. The lobby covers 1,500 square metres with no columns, and the atrium rises 90 metres, so visitors can cross between offices, shops and the Poly Museum under one roof.

The hanging structure called the "lantern" has no support columns at ground level; it weighs about 5,000 tonnes and cantilevers 23.98 metres, the largest of its kind in the world. It hangs from four parallel strand cables, the thickest 275 mm across and made of 199 strands of 15.2 mm. V-shaped rocker mechanisms keep the cables tensioned during a seismic event.