Chilean Pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / Sabbagh Arquitectos
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May 2009
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This Thursday, the chilean government presented the design for the Chilean Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. The 2000sqm pavilion, named “Sprout of a New City” was designed by Sabbagh Arquitectos.
This was the first Latin American country to sign their participation on the Expo with their own pavilion.
The government emphasized that this pavilion will strength the relation between both countries, current commercial partners exchanging over US$17 billion.
More images after the break.
Is there a reason for the form? what will the exhibit? I think Chilean architecture should have more to offer.
The pavilion interior is nice compare to other pavilion but the exterior is very ugly and seem to be unfinished.
The floor have alot of holes and is discolouring. All the material use seem to be very cheap and from the wall outside to the wooden floor that seem to be cracking and discolouring.
The content and message seem to be lost in translation because my entire tour of 40 people do not seem to understand what message they want to deliver. Overall i would give 2/10 points.
I seriously think we chilean can do better than this and since we have pay so much for this project.
At least this is a billion times better than that piece of shit rabbit from Macao. There may not be a solid reason for the form but the curves are sort of playful and fun. I like the green roof too, although it seems like that won’t be experienced by visitors not in a hot air balloon.
I’m sorry Chileans, but why not look for inspiration in pavilions such as the Macau pavilion?
No, but seriously, considering there are so many great Chilean architects creating great stuff, how did they come up with such a boring pavilion?
this pavilion is irrelevant, such as chilean architecture is a fake: competent adaptation of what is going on, not more than that.
i have no idea about this weird, banal pavilion…budget problem??? maybe they shd pay more to get better renderings….
maybe you all can explain to me what exactly you find so irrelevant and boring…and while your at it why not telling me how you find the renderings insufficient.
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Not bad at all
I must say this is quite boring…
even the exhibition spaces created in 2000 for the millenium Dome is a thousand times more interesting…
a degrade of creativity even with the advance technology media??
i think the architects should design with Head than base of the recent software
what a shame, it looks like the lobby of a shopping centre
Who decided this whas the proper pavillion to represent Chile?
As far as I know there was no open call to present proyects, so it was more of a closed designation. This means no questioning or open debate was generated to find out how the pavillion should be. I’m sure the “Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile” has something to say about this. In the past a Museum in Valparaiso by Oscar Niemeyer was stopped and an open contest was done. Let’s hope this happens again.
In relation to the arquitecture itself shown here, it has to do more with a showoff of the arquitects, rather than an exhibition of the country.
ok, I have to agree with most of the critics, chilean architecture has much more to show us, but let’s say it’s a way much better than many of the pavillions we have seen here… that rabbit one???!!! come on guys, stop having any strange tea before designing anything…
Marvelous…Nice facade and shapes…Congratulations
The question is:
Where is Chile in this pavilion?
Is this pavilion useful to show the best of the country?
I trust in our Architect.
I hope a great presentation with this building for Chile in China.
Regards
horrible ..!
Like a corporation headquarter.
So ugly and conservative arch !
@none
do you think that “competent adaptation of what is going on” is a fake?
shame to me as a chilean…….i´m sure we can do better, originals and creative projects
I’ve seen other stuff of Sabbagh and I don´t understand what it seems to be happen here, it’s so different from the line of what they usually do. I think our pavillion in China, should be at the top of others, like in Sevilla when we took the iceberg there; I do really like Sabbagh but i think in this project, he just gave an stadart typical glass “curved” box with grass on the roof….. boring… nothing in timber or our beautiful sismic structures… I just don’t get it.
Probably they have a lot of work , and this one it’s just a product of a quaterpound cheese with a light coke….
beautiful. i dont see what everyones problem is!
not every single piece of architecture needs to be excessive!
not every single piece needs to reflect vernacular when we live in a global world, where people work in other nations.
beautiful material use. love the channel glass
I started reading the posts for every pavilion and got really mad!!
Seriuosly, I hated my country´s pavilion (Brazil) and wanted to see what people had to say about it. Most of the comments were ok regarding bad quality (except a dumbass who said that the wood for the pavilion came from the forests WE cut clear, not knowing that the main explorers of the rain forest are indeed foreing companies), but after reading the posts for the other projects I got to the conclusion that people lost focus on each country´s proposal and regardless of its meaning and not even knowing at all the country they are talking about started criticizing every project and saying that people should be ashamed of their contry´s architecture.
I guess everybody is so f… good that could elaborate proposals to synthetize every country´s simbolism, culture and natural features with a architectural element better than the any other architect.
I understand bad designs deserve criticism to enhance architectural quality, but in my opimion people are over reacting and badly judging everything wihtout further considerations, it becomes silly and pointless to give any opimiom at all whe based on that kind of approach.
Quiero leer la opinión del edificio, no creo que en esto sea relevante la capacidad creativa o si se hizo una votación para elegir al arquitecto de este proyecto……Como decimos en Chile, la gente que nivela hacia abajo, al basurero.
Afectuosamente.
http://www.archdaily.com/21172/chilean-pavilion-for-shanghai-expo-2010-sabbagh-arquitectos/ Pabellón de Chile en Shangai
I saw this and went in myself twice. It is a good architectural piece, in terms of space and the use of materials. It is not an architecture that can be appreciated by just looking at the facade, the space inside creates anticipation. I like it very much, and I am not a Chilean, but I am an architect.
Hi everyone, I am a Chilean architect working in China for a while and I visited the expo several times and checked most of the pavilions (Puxi and Pudong side). It’s curious but when I was at the Chilean pavilion and spoke with the staff they always said that the most annoying and fussy visitors were Chileans, why??? To tell you more, when I was there a Universidad del Desarrollo delegation of architects was visiting and I spotted 3 women complaining at the bar against a plastic bag stacked in the ceiling and a wine stain on the floor, they yielded to a Chilean host, at the end they were so mad that they left taking pictures of unreliable details to send them to EL MERCURIO newspaper. I just stared this people with no comments. Meanwhile the foreigners and Chinese fellows were so impressed that Chile was able to bring such a good pavilion counting that we are a small country in the bottom of the world, they probably understood the context and from where we are coming from or they probably knew much better than us that we have limitations. I am agree that wasn’t well built, and had some flaws in the design but anybody of u guys checked the other pavilions, how were they built, contents, design, and how much money they spent in many of them. If it’s make you happy we were much better than a lot of European countries (by content and design), much better than USA and much better than ALL of the America pavilions, en hora Buena.
well before criticize get informed and second this is an EXPO and we must understand that a pavilion host people just for a few minutes and they don’t pay much attention to the small things, they are focused on other things like “stamping a passport”, specially when they have been waiting on the line for 1 or 4 fours and you have 200 hundred people next to you, its a venue for a big show.
I don’t want this become into a vanish discussion about Chileans but…. hey Chileans enjoy things as they are, enjoy life and enjoy the things (small and big ones) that we can do, and I know we are far away of doing things REALLY WELL DONE but let’s give a good try for good things. Architecture, sports, art, scientist, etc they all need the good support from us.