posts tagged ‘expo2010’
Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit IV
February 1st, 2010 • architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, construction, expo2010, shanghai 上海
Shanghai World Expo 2010 | January 19, 2010
A short visual post-script to our last week coverage of the Shanghai 2010 World Expo construction site focuses on the people that make progress happen: the migrant/construction workers. One sees them everywhere, doing everything; painting, building, cleaning up, connecting, strolling, resting, moving, sweating, smoking, hanging, hammering, pushing, pulling, pressing, measuring, listening, sleeping, digging, carrying, waiting, hurrying, cutting… On the ground, up in the air, in basements, on scaffolding, ladders and staircases. read more »
Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit III
January 28th, 2010 • 3 comments architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, construction, expo2010, shanghai 上海
Shanghai World Expo 2010 | Spanish pavillion | January 19, 2010
Norway, Australia, China and Spain complete the third and final chapter of the MovingCities series on the Shanghai 2010 World Expo pavilions under construction. While in the first and the second post we covered parts of the European expo-district, today we are strolling over the elevated streets connecting different parts of the area. read more »
Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit II
January 27th, 2010 • 2 comments architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, construction, expo2010, shanghai 上海
Shanghai World Expo 2010 | Austrian pavilion | January 19, 2010
A second series of snapshots from our recent visit to the Shanghai Expo2010 construction site (check part I) in which we cover the Danish, Dutch, Russian, British and Austrian pavilion. Besides their obvious identification as national pavilions, some of these structures have an additional thematic names: in today’s case Welfairytales (DK) and Happy Street (NL), in yesterday’s Greenopolis (RO), The Sensual City (FR) and balancity (GE). read more »
Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit I
January 26th, 2010 • 3 comments architectures, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, construction, expo2010, shanghai 上海
Shanghai World Expo 2010 | January 19, 2010
With less than 100 days before the opening of the World Expo, pavilions are getting in shape. Although structures are far from finished, the rough outlines of the future architectural experiences become visible – even so that these, to us, are more exciting than their expected state of completion. No cladding, no finished interiors, no green-designers’ draping, no visitors; only construction workers toiling everywhere. A MovingCities impression of the German, Swiss, French, Polish, Romanian and Luxembourg pavilion. read more »
Shanghai World Expo | French Pavilion presentation
March 3rd, 2009 • architectures, events, movingmemos
Tags: beijing 北京, expo2010, maquettes, party
French Pavilion | Shanghai 2010 World Expo
On February 20, the UCCA hosted the unveiling of the design of the French Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, which goes by the theme of “la ville sensuelle”. Designed by French architect Jacques Ferrier the idea of the pavilion is to be sensual and ecological at the same time. read more »
Shanghai World Expo | urban snapshots
January 28th, 2009 • 7 comments architectures, cities, movingmemos
Tags: architecture, construction, demolition, expo2010, shanghai 上海, urbanism
With less than 500 hundred days before opening, the 2010 World Expo site in Shanghai doesn’t feel like any other ordinary construction site in China; although a trained and experienced ‘construction tourist’ might sense a familiar pre-Beijing’08 Olympic odor filling the surrounding area. Exploring both expo areas along the banks of the HaungPu River, we ran into fences and walls, strolled over deserted plots of lands, climbed a small wall and faced the Chinese exhibition hall, still under construction. read more »
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