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25 May 2010

Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilions

For this year's Shanghai Expo, countries around the globe have been locked in battle to produce the most show-stopping pavilion and secure the attention of all-important Chinese businesses.

Here, we show some of the most arresting pavilions for the forthcoming Expo, whose theme this year is: 'Better City, Better Life.'

The Danish Pavilion: 'Wellfairytale' by Big architects

The Danish have decided to move their Little Mermaid statue, along with a supertanker full of water from the harbour, to Shanghai. 'It is more efficient to move the Little Mermaid to China than to move 1.3b Chinese to Copenhagen,' remarked BIG architects and the 2+1 Ideas Agency. The statue will sit at the base of a swirling velodrome, where 1,500 Danish bicycles will carry visitors through the exhibits. Meanwhile, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will design a temporary sculpture to fill the space left by the mermaid.

The Chinese Pavilion: 'Oriental Crown' by He Jingtang

The Chinese pavilion is the biggest, tallest and most expensive building on the Expo site. Built from interlaced red beams locked together with traditional Chinese dougong brackets, the inverted ziggurat is visible from miles around. But then, having spent almost £40bn on the Expo (roughly twice the budget of the Beijing Olympics), the Chinese were determined to make an impressive pavilion. Visitors will get a 40-minute tour that will include a trip in a cable car. A vision of China's future low-carbon cities is also promised.

The Japanese Pavilion: 'Purple Silkworm' by Yutaka Hikosaka

Also known as Purple Silkworm Island, this is the biggest and most expensive pavilion that Japan has built for a World Expo. The cocoon-shaped pavilion is made from the world's first 'pillow membrane', built from amorphous solar cells. Collected rainwater will be sprayed over the membrane to keep it cool as it powers the displays. Once inside, visitors can tread on electricity-generating floorboards, test-drive Toyota's one-person transport pod, and listen to violin-playing robots. Canon is also set to unveil its new 3D camera.

The Macau Pavilion: 'Rabbit Lantern' by Carlos Marreiros

No, it's not a bunny girl from one of Macau's swankiest casinos, but a giant silver rabbit lantern, the kind Macau-born architect Carlos Marreiros remembers playing with as a child. The mega-structure is a glass case lit by colour-shifting LED lights powered by solar panels, while its head and tail are detachable balloons. Marreiros says it can be recycled when its six months are up. The 19.99m-tall rabbit marks the year (1999) when the former Portuguese colony was handed back to China. Visitors will find it sitting just a bunny hop away from the Chinese pavilion.

The article is republished with permission from Wallpaper.com 

讀者回應

1. 2010-05-25 17:22  
Amazing - I can't wait to check all this out in person.
2. 2010-05-26 11:03  
BE WARNED! I have just been to the Expo. The crowds are horrendous! Be prepared to queue up for hours to get into some of the more popular pavillions. Also note that to get into the China Pavillion, you must get hold of an allocated-time ticket which is free - but you must be at the gate at opening times to get it. And there is a limit of 40,000 tickets per day. Needless to say, I missed out on both visits, which i thought was a bit unfair for a foreign tourist. (Any Expo officials reading this?)
3. 2010-05-26 20:48  
The British Pavilion was absolutely amazing too.. ;)
4. 2010-05-27 16:22  
"Rabbit Lantern"... or an homage to Monty Python's Holy Grail? ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2PdyxMtiYM
5. 2010-05-27 17:59  
Expo 2010 is brilliant .... get there if you can.

Yes, the crowds are horrendous .. probably best to go in the afternoon. Many pavilions are still admitting visitors past 9pm.

The UK pavilion is amazingly disappointing .. don't bother queuing. For me probably the best is Germany, followed by Italy, although I didn't get a chance to see Japan .. because of the long queues!

Let me know if you want any more advice on Expo ... I was there for 10 days!

6. 2010-05-27 21:22  
One word: Brilliant !

Only China could pull off something that..massive? After the Olympics, now the Expo is another massive hit for them !
7. 2010-05-27 23:14  
I am looking forward to visit Shanghai and Expo 2010.
'My girlfriend' 'Little Mermaid' is sitting and waiting fore me! He.He..!

Hope also to meet some of you boys here from fridæ, you welcome to contact me here on my profil on fridæ..

I am just now planing my visit.
I will arrive Shanghai 7 july and depature 15 july.
Will be 3 days at EXPO 2010.
修改於2010-06-24 19:10:10
8. 2010-05-28 15:12  
I wanna go but I am afraid of the crowds!! I'm a huge expo fan as I love world cultures!!
9. 2010-05-30 01:55  
I just got back from Shanghai and I could not believe that I queued 4 hours (12.30 pm till 4.30 pm) just to get into the Saudi Arabia pavilion. It was not apparent how long the queue was at the start of the queue as the barricades went on for ever and I could not make out the length of the queue.

The line was also limited by the fact that once you get into the pavilion, you get onto a travellator/people mover (slow) that takes you through an imax experience. If I had known that it would have taken 4 hours to get in I would have skipped it. But after the experience, I would gladly say that the experience was worth it.
10. 2010-05-30 12:35  
that many hours to see a country's exhibits? might be easier and faster to fly and see the country first hand.
11. 2010-06-03 00:51  
just saw expo the other day. even on a monday, terrible lines, and piles of trash between them, too :(

didnt get to see a lot, but out of the 7 i saw, England, Spain, and Canada were my favorites, in that order. OMG, why is the US pavilion always so terrible? It was pathetic, and embarrassing. I remember how boring the Aichi, Japan Expo pavilion was, too, and unfortunately they didnt take the cue from others that much more needed to be done. I recommend not wasting your time. But if you like Corp. Inc. logos, frat boys trying to speak Chinese, and 3 terrible videos in an industrial creative-less space, check it out.
12. 2010-06-18 16:21  
I am from South Germany. Also want visit the Expo and Shanghai. Looking for normaly gay who chan be my guide. Plan the trip in Jul/Aug. So hope there are not to much visitor on expo. Well maybe can found a young gay who can speak german language little bit.

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