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Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit IV

movingcities — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:26:51 +0000

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, [...]

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Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit III

movingcities — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:14:36 +0000

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 [...]

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Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit II

movingcities — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:23:50 +0000

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 [...]

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Shanghai | Expo2010 site visit I

movingcities — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:31:51 +0000

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 [...]

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Shanghai World Expo | French Pavilion presentation

movingcities — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:42:52 +0000

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 [...]

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Shanghai World Expo | urban snapshots

movingcities — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:17:47 +0000

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 [...]

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