Archinect (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
BIG / Bjarke Ingels has partnered up with Kilo Design / Lars Holme Larsen and Skibsted Ideation / Jens Martin Skibsted to form KiBiSi , a Copenhagen-based industrial design outfit. One of the latest projects in their portfolio is the seating system for the BIG-designed Danish EXPO Pavilion , currently under construction in preparation for Shanghai 2010.
The Paper Tiger (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I've been traveling to China for a long time, but there are some things I will never claim to understand. The above is one of them. Okay, China has changed tremendously over the last few decades; citizens are pretty much free to lead their lives the way they want, as long as they don't cross that invisible red line and get involved with politics or organizing. But we're still dealing with an authoritarian...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Heatherwick Studio's design for the British Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. Seeing Things is a biweekly design column by Brooke Hodge, a design writer and curator based in Los Angeles. The British designer Thomas Heatherwick is known for his innovative and offbeat projects, including a rolling bridge in London and a Longchamp boutique in Manhattan. Taking up Walter Gropius's dictum to address the...
Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
E.L. Doctorow's World's Fair (1985) culminates with two 1940 visits to the 1939/1940 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Park, Queen's, New York City, but much of the story takes place during the 1930s in or near the Bronx. Doctorow's semi-autobiographical tale centers around Edgar, the primary narrator, and his extended family. The finely articulated attention to detail and subtle character development...
Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Preparations for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 are heating up and many countries are getting in on the action by designing structures for the space. We couldn’t help but be dazzled by the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion by Atelier Feichang Jianzhu, but we were even more impressed to learn that the fascinating building is composed of [...]
Abduzeedo by design - (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Since 1851 the world meets regularly in the great Universal Exposition. London was the first to show itself to the world when built his famous "Crystal Palace", a huge area covered by steel and glass that houses the stands of many countries. From then on I remember the Tour Eiffel (1889), the German Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona (1929), the Portuguese pavilion by Alvaro...
Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
Foster + Partners' 450 person/3000 sqm, sand dune inspired design for the UAE pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010. we previously reported on the Polish and Danish pavilions I believe Foster's inspiration is far more sexual- what's your take?
BLDGBLOG (Free subscription) | 04/08/2009
[Image: The "permutated cubes" of DesignAct 's proposed Singapore Pavilion for the World Expo 2010]. It's Habitat 67 as redesigned by BIG for an era of heavily cantilevered structural glass, by way of Herzon & de Meuron , OMA , and perhaps a kind of aerialized Kengo Kuma , in this recent proposal by Singapore's DesignAct . Their building, a finalist for the World Expo 2010 Singapore...
Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009
This incredible pixelated skyscraper by Singapore-based Design Act was a finalist in a competition to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. Entitled “My Dream, Our Vision”, the project uses permutated cubes to generate a spectacular modular sculpture that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Singapore as an efficient, dynamic, cosmopolitan, and forward-looking nation. Simultaneously...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Advisor: Financial crisis not to affect success of 2010 Shanghai Expo [Xinhua] "The global financial crisis will have only limited impacts on the Shanghai World Expo 2010, an official with the organizers said here Sunday. Wan Jifei, vice director of the Shanghai World Expo Executive Committee, pledged that the financial crisis would not affect the overall success of the Expo at a press conference...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Wan Jifei, vice director of the Shanghai World Expo Executive Committee, pledged that the financial crisis would not affect the overall success of the Expo at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual session of China's political advisory body.
Wangjianshuo's blog (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Here is the Shanghai Expo 2010 China Pavilion, a.k.a Oriental Crown. Taken by Jian Shuo Wang on March 8, 2009 It does look like a crown. Where is it? It is located the crossing road of horizontal and vertical axes. The photo above was taken at the Shangnan Road 上南路 and Pudong South Road 浦东南路. This cross road is also the terminal station of the current...
Shanghai Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 03/05/2009
Taken @ Metro, Line 2, shanghai With the coming Shanghai Expo 2010, the city speeds up to build more Metro lines now. Now we already have 8 Metro lines finished, and there will be 17 lines till 2010. And Line 2 normally is very crowded.
montreal city weblog (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
The Saint-Michel environmental complex is to be the centrepiece of Montreal's pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 expo .
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 02/27/2009
Can't wait to get your tickets for the World Expo? Neither can we! Luckily for all of us, we now have a couple of dates to look forward to: group tickets will go on sale on March 27 and the public can start lining up on July 1. Basic price will be 160 yuan, three-day passes will be 400 yuan and seven-day passes will be 900. Discounts will be offered to the disabled, seniors, students, Chinese service-people...
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