information:

• status

  building

• date

  07.2015 / — 2021

• place

  United Arab Emirates, Dubai

• function

  Commercial and Retail / Exhibition Pavilion

• Other Buildings

  Мастерплан комплекса Экспо-2020

Nicholas Grimshaw /

United Arab Emirates

Archi.ru about this project:

18.10.2021

Julia Tarabarina. Tolerant Aesthetics of Terraforming

The World Expo is a gigantic event; it is difficult to give it one definition or cover it at a glance. All the more so – such an ambitious and record-breaking fair as the one that is now open in Dubai despite all the pandemic restrictions. By no means claiming to present an all-rounded review, we are making an attempt to examine Expo 2020, where signs of aesthetic tolerance of a developer project begin to loom behind the imposing-looking “wings” of “star” architects and delights from space exploration.

The very first World Expo, at the time called World’s Fair, took place in 1851 in London, UK, and covered an area of 10 hectares with 25 countries participating in it. Since then the area of the exhibition varied from tens of hectares in Europe...   more