States of Architecture in the Twenty-First Century | New Directions from the Shanghai World Expo
Hardcover
Expo 2010 Shanghai was the most ambitious world exposition to date with more than 70 million visitors. It boasted an unprecedented collection of pavilions that represented the ambitions of individual nations as well a collective vision for cities in the new millennium. Together, the buildings constitute a cross section of contemporary trends in architecture, showcasing a full spectrum of cutting edge technology, building materials, and design sensibilities.
This book captures this extraordinary architectural event with the eloquent and probing photography of Nic Lehoux. The thorough documentation includes detailed photographic accounts of the various architectural features and the public spaces and landscapes that bind them into a total and unique environment. ¥ The accompanying essay situates the event in a long standing tradition of world expositions while underscoring the particular geographic, cultural, and political aspects of the Chinese context that shape the Shanghai Expo and its thematic orientation.
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Photo | @dollarside Location | Shanghai World Expo site, China . The World Expo which was held in Shanghai 2010, has left an area abandoned. However, some places have been reused such as the World Expo Park which put combined ecology with the reuse of buildings from the Expo as a stage for performances. This photo shows an area of the Expo site which was previously used for leisure activities while is now an abandoned plane in a abandoned setting. . Beautiful photo by a talented photography enthusiast, Steve Gu. . . #shanghai #shanghaiexpo #shanghaiexpopark #china #asia #worldurbanplanning #urbanplanning #cityplanning #urbandesign #urbanpatterns #aerialview #aerial #airplane #reuse #abandoned #drone #landuse #도시 #도시계획 #상해 #비행기 #architecture #urbanism #landscapearchitecture #드론스타그램 (at Shanghai Expo Park)
The more you look at it, the more inspiring it gets. "Seed Cathedral" by Thomas Heatherwick for the Shanghai Expo. Repost: @harshanthomson_photography #thomasheatherwick #shanghaiexpo #architecture #architectural #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecturalphotography #archiporn #archimasters #modernarchitecture #onarts (ved Shanghai, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4xZaObnGVt/?igshid=dlhqkdc8yjq6
Sewing The Seeds “That’s where the concept of the Seed Cathedral came from – the idea that the building consists of just these more than 200,000 seeds. What you see from the outside are 7.5-metre-long light-collecting rods that illuminate the inpidual seeds contained within them. These 60,000 rods constitute the building.” - Thomas Heatherwick on ‘The Seed Cathedral’ at the ‘2010 Shanghai Expo’. The wooden structure stood 20 metres in height and each rod was 7.5 metres long encasing one or more seeds at its tip. During the day, the rods draw daylight inwards to illuminate the interior. At night, light sources inside each rod allow the whole structure to glow. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #thomasheatherwick #seedcathedral #2010shanghaiexpo #shanghaiexpo #uk #sculpture #art
Been a recluse at #zhenyoga for almost a week and today I'm finally feeling better. Ventured out to see the city of #Chongqing. It is a freaking huge city with the #yantzeriver running through it. - Sporting a handstand in front of #guotaiartscentre, designed by the same architect - #hejingtang, who did the #chinapavilion at #shanghaiexpo in 2010. - 🤳🏼 by @didier363636 • • • • #yoga #yogamen #yogi #instayoga #igfitness #igyoga #yogateacher #namaste #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeverywhere #yogajourney #victorchauyoga #yogapractice #yogalove #realmendoyoga #boysofyoga #lululemonambassador #menatyoga #handstand #inversionjunkie (at 国泰艺术中心 Guotai arts Center)
#Repost @designboom with @repostapp ・・・ designed by @embtarchitects, the spanish pavilion for shanghai's 2010 world expo sought to recover the craft of wickerwork in order to reinvent it as a new construction technique. photo by shen zhonghai KDE⠀ ⠀ see more architecture by #embtarchitects on #designboom #shanghaiexpo
Who would thought that both of them would become the Tongan Ambassador to China. Me, BG 'Uta'atu and Col Latu. #tongan #shanghaiexpo (at Shanghai, China)
Sewing The Seeds “The big Expos around the world are all very busy, rich, complex and mind-bogglingly amazing events, but when you ask people what they remember, it always seems to be the pure, very simple things. So we thought we shouldn’t just design a building and then worry about what exhibition to put inside, but rather design something simple, where the exhibition idea determines the building.” - Thomas Heatherwick on the ‘Seed Cathedral’ at the ‘2010 Shanghai Expo’. Held under the auspices of the ‘Bureau International des Expositions’, the Shanghai Expo in 2010 was the largest the world has ever seen. Staged on a 5.28km2 city centre site beside the Huangpu River, it featured pavilions representing the ideas and cultural and commercial ambitions of more than 200 countries and international organisations. Visitor numbers reached a record 70m during this six month event, which ran from May 1 to October 31, 2010. The UK pavilion at Expo 2010, colloquially known as the ‘Seed Cathedral’, was a sculpture structure built by a nine-member conglomeration of British business and government resources directed by designer Thomas Heatherwick. It referenced the race to save seeds from round the world in banks, and housed 250,000 plant seeds at the end of 60,000 acrylic rods projecting from the walls of the building. The structure stood where it was built, at a cost of £25 million, in Shanghai, and won the BIE gold award for best pavilion design. The ‘Seed Cathedral’ catered to over 100 public and private sector events, hundreds of VIP and dignitary visits and over seven million general public visitors during its six month existence at the 2010 Expo. The cathedral has now been dismantled, with some rods donated to schools, some donated to the World Expo Museum and some being auctioned for charity. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #thomasheatherwick #seedcathedral #2010shanghaiexpo #shanghaiexpo #uk #sculpture #art