The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is supposed to showcase great architecture--the theme, after all, is "Better City, Better Life"--and chances are, it will. Norman Foster is cooking up a souffled sand dune for the U.A.E. Giampaolo Imbrighi is building Italy's pavilion out of transparent concrete. Denmark's, designed by Big, is basically a giant bike path (those Danes and their bikes!).
And then.... There's the U.S. and Canada.
In an editorial last week in the Globe and Mail, architecture critic Lisa Rochon revealed that for its pavilion--at 20,000 square feet, one of the biggest at the Expo--Canada passed over some 8,000 local architects to choose ... Johnny Boivin, the artistic director of Cirque du Soleil. Go get 'em, Lisa:
Other nations launch architecture competitions and unveil their designs with much fanfare in what has become a kind of Olympics of architecture and art. Not you, Mr. Canada. You farm out...
And then.... There's the U.S. and Canada.
In an editorial last week in the Globe and Mail, architecture critic Lisa Rochon revealed that for its pavilion--at 20,000 square feet, one of the biggest at the Expo--Canada passed over some 8,000 local architects to choose ... Johnny Boivin, the artistic director of Cirque du Soleil. Go get 'em, Lisa:
Other nations launch architecture competitions and unveil their designs with much fanfare in what has become a kind of Olympics of architecture and art. Not you, Mr. Canada. You farm out...
- 1/20/2010
- by William Bostwick
- Fast Company
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