Built of gray mining steel covered with transparent membrane, it covers an area of 204,100 square metres. It can hold 100,000 spectators.

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Used to honour Confucius, and is about 400-500 years old.

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It is semi-transparent, with 'bubbles' covering its surface.. It has an area of 50,000 square metres and can sit 17,000 people. It was built at a cost of US$100 million.

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Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Deshengmen (simplified Chinese: 德胜门; traditional Chinese: 德勝門; "Gate of Virtuous Triumph") is a city gate that was once part of Beijing's northern city wall. It is one of Beijing's few preserved city gates and now stands as a landmark on the northern 2nd Ring Road.

The original gate complex, built in 1437, was composed of three structures – the gatehouse, archery tower, and barbican. The gatehouse proper was demolished in 1921, and the city wall was torn down in 1969. Today only the archery tower and the barbican survives. They overlook the northern city moat, and house an ancient coin exhibition inside.

Deshengmen is now a major transportation node in northern Beijing. The gate complex is surrounded by the Deshengmen bridge, a rotary overpass that channels traffic from the 2nd Ring Road to the Badaling Expressway. The street that once passed through the gate is still named in relation to it. South of Deshengmen and inside the old city wall is Deshengmen Inner Street. To the north, it is called Deshengmen Outer Street.

Deshengmen means "Gate of Virtuous Triumph." In traditional times, the imperial military would march out of Beijing through Deshengmen, and return through Andingmen, the Gate of Peace and Stability.

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