SPECIAL EXPO
The primordial force of the Earth (and its colors) are behind imposing architectural forms full of materic vigor.
Starting with the Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates, by Foster + Partners: an evocative canyon 140 meters long that winds through ‘dunes’ 12 meters high. And then: the Pavilion of the Morocco by KILO architectures based on a Berber model; the KIP Pavilion designed by RIMOND© in collaboration with the architect Tony Marincola; the wooden pavilion of Chile in Monterey pine by Cristián Undurraga and Eugenio Garcìa; the Pavilion of France designed by X-TU, ALN Atelien Architecture and Studio Adeline Rispal; the Pavilion of Japan, designed by Atsushi Kitagawara, set into a wooden grid of 17,000 shaped interlocking slats; Vanke Pavilion by Daniel Libeskind; Intesa SanPaolo Pavilion, facing a reflecting pool and designed by aMDL – Michele De Lucchi with Alberto Bianchi, Simona Agabio, Marcello Biffi.
edited by Antonella Boisi and Laura Ragazzola





