Expo 2010

Atelier Brückner’s Magic Box & A glimpse of the future

The Shanghai Expo of 1 may – 31 October 2010 was themed Better City-Better Life and was to showcase the Chinese city’s place in the world of the future and its place in the 21st century as one of the world’s greatest cities. It was the largest fair up to that date and attracted …

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This was Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion in Shanghai

Architecture / 3 minutes of reading

Thomas Heatherwick’s Seed Cathedral, 2010 What have seeds got to do with art? Well, Thomas Heatherwick did manage to preserve a big chunk of our plants within an art piece he presented at the UK pavilion at Expo 2010. Out of the 200 building exhibits on display, Heatherwick must have instinctively known that he had …

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What is Xu Bing’s gigantic Phoenix project?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Xu Bing is an internationally celebrated Chinese artist. He works in a couple of disciplines and materials but the most common is ink painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. Xu has worked with pigs and silkworms. Though, one of his well-known installations is a gigantic flying dragon titled Phoenix. How was Phoenix created? The installation features …

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