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Slow Food Nation 2008–the country’s first major sustainable foods celebration took place over Labor Day weekend at Fort Mason San Francisco. Individual “Taste Pavilions” fabricated from repurposed materials were designed by the Bay Area’s most celebrated design firms. Sagan Piechota’s design for the pickle-and-chutney booth—assembled just days before the event—featured walls made of pickle jars and a ceiling composed of 3,000 mason jar lids suspended from wires. From ARCH DAILY

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2010 Shanghai World Expo: Hong Kong Expo Pavilion by Ida & Billy

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thomas heatherwick's british pavilion at shanghai expo 2010. More HERE

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Architects Foster + Partners have designed the United Arab Emirates’ pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010.





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CHICAGO - August 4, 2009 - The much anticipated Burnham Pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) of London, UK, has officially opened to the public in Millennium Park. With UN Studio.

More than 7,000 pieces of aluminum - no two alike - had to be individually bent and welded to create its curvilinear form. Then thousands of yards of fabric had to be custom tailored and tightly fit onto the interior and exterior aluminum-tube structure.

Every evening, the inner fabric's curving skin serves as the "screen" for a sound-and-video installation by artist Thomas Gray that impressionistically explores how the Chicago region has transformed during the past 100 years, and asks people to examine their dreams for the future.

The pavilion's site is augmented by a kiosk for the public to engage in "inventing the future" of the metropolitan Chicago region. An interactive touch-screen installation let's people choose from various scenarios of the choices currently facing regional planners, and then see animations of the consequences of their choices.

Taken from: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/chicago/burnham_pavilion.htm

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SPANISH PAVILLON for the International Exhibition Shanghai 2010

Architect: Benedetta Tagliabue
Miralles Tagliabue EMBT
Location: SHANGHAI
Site area: 6465,80 m2
Bldg. area: 5169,60 m2
Gross floor area: 10951,06 m2
Structure: Iron
Exterior finishing: wicker, etfe, glass
Interior finishing: bamboo, wicker, wood, dry wall
Design Year (period): 2007-2008
Completion: 2010








Project 2007:

Project leader: Makoto Fukuda, Arch., Salvador Gilabert, Arch, Elena Rocchi, Arch.

Collaborators: Guile Amadeu, Arch., Francesca Ciprini, Arch., Mattia Cappelletti, Arch., Manuel Rearte, Johane Ronsholt, Kazuya Morita, Gian Mario Tonossi, Olivia Kostifa, Cesar Trujillo, Carles Pastor, Marta Martinez, Noelia Pickard

Client: SEEI (Sociedad Estatal para Exposiciones Internacionales, S.A.)
Budget: €18.000.000,00
Date: 2007 – in progress
Site: Shanghai, China
Surface: 8500 mq

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