Finland Pavilion
The Finnish pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is called Kirnu (“Giant‘s kettle”). Designed by JKMM, an architect‘s office in Helsinki, Kirnu won first prize in the design competition announced in May 2008, which received 104 entries in all. The …
Italy Pavilion
area: The theme of the Expo is “Better city, better life”, what is the Italian pavilion’s response to this motto? What is the idea which has inspired the project, winner of a competition which has seen the participation of 65 candidates? Giampaolo Imbr …
Netherlands Pavilion
“Better City, Better Life”, the theme of the expo 2010, origins in a good street. A street mixed with different types of buildings like a house, a shop, a factory, an office, a farm, a petrol station, a sportfield, a garage, forms the condition for a s …
Norway Pavilion
The explosive urbanization that China is experiencing calls for an increased sensibility and consideration for both natural and human resources. “Norway powered by Nature” contributes to these issues with an architecture that facilitates social sustai …
Spain Pavilion
The Spanish Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo of Shanghai seeks to reflect upon the Spanish climate, as well as to recover the extraordinary craft of wickerwork in order to bring it back to life and to reinvent it as a new construction technique. If in …
Switzerland Pavilion
The Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai is enclosed in a semi-transparent façade that produces electricity using cutting-edge solar technology and turns solar radiation into a visible form of energy. The electricity is drawn from by light-emitting …
UK Pavilion
The design process evolved to produce two interlinked and experiential elements: an architecturally iconic Seed Cathedral, and a multi-layered landscape treatment of the 6,000 sqm site. The Seed Cathedral sits in the centre of the UK Pavilion’s site, 2 …
Urban Best Practice Area
UBPA area in the zone E at the Shanghai Expo The Ministry of the Environment has been involved in the preparation of EXPO 2010 ever since 2004. Within the context of the program of environmental cooperation between Italy and China we have participated …
Più vicini alle comunità: la Urban Practice Area all‘Esposizione Universale di Shanghai
Getting closer to the community: Urban Best Practice Area of the Shanghai World Expo A project which did not make it for UBPA As far as the Urban Best Practice Area (UBPA) of Shanghai World Expo is concerned, I am a by-stander or an outsider rather tha …
UBPA B2 and C1 pavilion
The project for the Pavilions for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 B2 and C1 aims to recover and enhance the existing industrial pavilions, maintaining their structure and adapting it to new functions. The original design of the pavilions is therefore pres …