Shanghai Expo
UK Pavilion Winner (above) announced Oct 2007: Heatherwick Studios
Shortlist announced May 2007:
Avery Associates; Draw Architects; Heatherwick Studios; John McAslan +
Partners; Marks Barfield Architects; Zaha Hadid Architects
47 entries
Shanghai Expo 2010
- Spanish Pavilion
Shanghai World Expo 2010 Public Events Center, Shanghai, China
2007
Perkins Eastman
Competition entry
1.5m sqft
Facilities: Meeting hall; Banquet hall; Festival hall
Shanghai
Expo UK Winner : Heatherwick Studios
British Pavilion Shanghai 2010 - Heatherwick Studio: Winner
The Pavilion of Ideas is a unique display device - an enclosure that throws
out from all faces a mass of long, radiating cilia, each ending with a
tiny light source. Their length means they gently sway in response to
any wind movement.
These cilia, or staves, provide the Pavilion with its only means of support.
It rests on its soft forest in an urban field, flanked by two ramped,
embracing arms of grass, formed as ramparts under which an auditorium,
exhibition space, café, shop and reception spaces are sited. The
architecture eschews the need for significant concrete foundations and
aims to use simple construction techniques to touch lightly on the site.
Above and peering into these spaces, the Pavilion flickers with patterns
of light as it sends its messages, and those of its visitors, across the
site. Each cilium terminates within the Pavilion – with another tiny
light source. Inside, clustered together by the form of the structure,
they create an enormous engulfing digital screen. This is how the British
Pavilion’s content is expressed – outwardly as well as inwardly.
British Pavilion Shanghai 2010 - Image + Text from Heatherwick Studio
2007
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British Pavilion Shanghai 2010
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