Brazilian Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 / Fernando Brandão
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Jun 2009
AsBEA (Brazilian Association of the Offices of Architecture) and APEX (Brazilian Agency of Promotion of Exports and Investments) have announced the winning project to represent Brazil in the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Architect Fernando Brandão won with a design based on the “Pulsing Cities” of Brazil. The inverted parenthesis on the facade represent that pulsation.
The structure will feature recycled wood painted green which will be leaned on a metallic structure. You can find more information here (in Portuguese). More images after the break.
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bleh!
Como arquiteto brasileiro:
-eu lamento!!!
Ridículo!
uuffff.where’s the architecture?
almost as bad as the dutch pavilion! Who approves these horrible projects!!
Unfortunally Mathias – THINGS HERE ARE NOT EXPOSED OR SHOWED IN PUBLIC!!!!!!!
Pure politics!!!!!
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aaaargh! what a crap!
I’m embarrassed for them… this is not architecture!
No es por nada, pero yo con 20 minutos en sketchup hubiese sacado mejores imágenes.
Triste el llevarme esa imagen de brasil habiendo tan buenos arquitectos en esa tierra… Donde están Marcio Kogan, Mendes da Rocha, el mismo Niemeyer. Triste el ver esto habiendo visto las obras de los anteriores.
Not that I like the building, but the idea has very much substance if taken as far as it goes.. Imagine a building about interagtion between strangers with football and architecture as medium. Not that i ever been there but I imange that would give a little taste of the spirit in brazil..
Of corse the national team would play there at the opening:)
Instead it’s a UGLY lump featuring a crapy exhibition with a layout like a teenagegirl’s horse-magazine..
WHAT!? I was expecting more from Brazil, this is sad, sad, sad :-(
Meu deus! Sai da arquitetura! Não é para você!
Why do you guys publish this stuff!
So bad! He must be ashamed! Im sorry for him…
Cheira roubadinha.
Pretty…………..
Ugly………..
Jesus F***ing Christ!
This is as bad as it gets…
é isso então que temos pra mostrar?
v-e-r-g-o-n-h-a
I like the big sign. This is a pavilion for Brazil yeah?
So I am skeptical as the other posters. May I ask what people from Brazil would like to see represent them at the Expo? Can I also how you would reflect this in a pavilion design?
no….
This looks like a RAID product with all of those little ants milling about.
I’m pretty sure this guy didn’t study at AtelierMaterial…
Dear readers. I want to inform you that there´s a big controversy in Brazil because of this project. The competition for this project was restricted, and was kept very low until this announcement.
We are all aware of the excellent work that old architects and young practices have been doing in Brazil, and I´m pretty sure that an open competition would have turned out way better.
es horrendo, parece trabajo de kinder… si el proyecto es una porqueria.. por lo menos que hagan unos buenos renders…
Looks like the rainforests they clearcut, eliminating the planet’s primary source of oxygen.
David- Who would you suggest should design the pavilion?
David thanks for the update…Good to hear there’s an uproar in Brazil over this horrendous project.
Robert,
I´m my opinion, I think it should be an architect selected through an open competition.
But on a personal aspect, I wish that competition was awarded to MMBB (Milton Braga, etc), SPBR (Angelo Bucci) or Grupo SP (Alvaro Puntoni). These Sao Paulo practices have been doing a good work in the last few years, and they are very good going back and forth working together, establishing a local scene. And in that sense, I think they can deliver something that is closer to the brazilian architecture heritage.
Esta proposta de “arquitetura” está totalmente de acordo com a identidade visual da copa do mundo de 2014, ou seja: Para um projeto gráfico abaixo da crítica, um espaço igualmente ruim.
Parece até que não temos profissionais para resolver este problemas com a categoria necessária. O Design e a Arquitetura brasileira não mereciam nada disto.
I Guess Brasil run over the budget (cause the soccer world championship 2014) for the pavillion and this is the best they could do.
Maybe they should contract an architect for the design.
Reger,
As I stated before, this has nothing to do with the budget.
I’m really ashamed. Brazil has better architects than this one. For sure, much better projects didn’t win the competition.
angelo bucci would have rocked it… too bad brazil doesn’t see the benefit of open competitions…
Se é para isto…mais vale ficarem pelas novelas.
Triste, muito triste
Sad, very sad… I think a 1st year student could do way better…
Tricky. I know, was ironically.
it look like a huge cage for wild animals, and much worst applying green archiecture in a wrong sense. for me, to scale how good/bad is this from 1-10 as 10 is the best i say it will be 2 for the effort.
brazilian people are ashamed of this project.
there wasn´t an open competition.
the project was made by a friend-of-authority architect.
sad, very sad.
i repeat: “brazilian people are ashamed of this project.
there wasn´t an open competition”…
As brazilian architecture student, just one word came to my mind:
SHAME
I came to see the comments because I hated the project, and I am glad to see I’m no thte only one. Although it’s a shame to be glad for that: wouldn’t it be better to have an architecture that reflects the competence of Brazilian’s architects? Sure it would.
I didn’t know this was a closed competition: why is that? Do someone knows? What happens now? We keep this crap or there’s gonna be some re-evaluation?
That’s about as weak as it gets
It was an closed competition with 65 offices included. But with a crazy dead-line ( just 10 days), only 10 architects joined.
It was a process and project mistake.
sad
Simply DISGUSTING!!!
Any student can make a better project, this “building” is awful.
WTF is this?
If you look at the website of this “architect” it gets worst…hauihiuahi
oh dear…
LAMENTÁVEL
A “closed” competition, 65 offices invited, a complex program, 10 days to deliver… and, still, 10 offices did it, providing this “thing” as a winner!! In my country, I would be expelled from the architects’ association only by agreeing to participate. Considering that these unethical conditions were defined by the Brazilian Association of the Offices of Architecture, it’s revolting. It’s a shame for Brazilian Architecture. I don’t dare to imagine how the other 9 projects looked like…
Realmente tem algo muito estranho nessa “competição”, aí…
Que desastre!
O Brasil tem representantes MUITO melhores.
There is something really, really strange in this “competition” (as you refer)…
What a disaster!
MUCH better architects could have represented Brazil in Shangai.
Aposto que foi o orçamento mais barato apresentado.
Nessas horas tenho vergonha da arquitetura brasileira.
Those neatly aligned chairs are going to be all over the place!
Nobody is happy with this project. We are still waiting for official position of our institute of architecture. You can check the debate at (in Portuguese):
http://concursosdeprojeto.org/2009/05/22/concurso-expo-xangai-2010-br/
I also invite you to read a text I wrote about pavilions and competitions:
http://concursosdeprojeto.org/2009/05/28/pavilhoes-de-exposicoes-e-concursos-licoes-a-aprender/
Se é para entregar um projeto de mão beijada para alguém que seja no mínimo alguém capaz. Os pavilhões para essa expo em geral estão bem ruins, e esse esta na briga pelo titulo.
Meu Deus, o q houve com Oscar Niemeyer, Ruy Ohtake, Vilanova Artigas, Paulo Mendes da Rocha ?
enfim…
Deplorável apresentação brasileira no EXPO WORLD 2010!
Essa picaretagem foi longe demais. Raras vezes vi algo tão medíocre num ´´concurso´´. Isso não é arquitetura, é um deboche, uma afronta à nossa inteligencia. Acho que a ASBEA e a APEX foram fazer um negócio da China e esqueceram do resto. It sucks!!!!!
HORRIBLE`!
Nossa que horror!!! como q 1 projeto desse ganha??
This Crap Bag is not qualifyed to represent Brazil
infelizmente, no brasil temos de lidar com esse tipo de pessoa, que não tem nada a acrescentar profissionalmente com uma ar
as a brazilian student of architecture i must say this is a major let down.
what were they thinking when creating/aproving this…
Cara, porque não foram na lata de lixo no niemeyer e pegaram qualquer coisa, com certeza seria muito melhor do que isso aí.
they could go to the niemeyer’s trash can to pic anything. Certainly better than this stuff…
It is a shame, a country as Brazil, emergent, rich in the culture, and the poor in the knowledge, the architecture of this pavilion, if exists some, simply remembers to me, samba, Futbol and Mulata.
It´s a pity, because Brazil its not represented by this crap.
TA NA HORA DE COMEÇAR A PROJETAR!
POR FAVOR, ALGUÉM DA UM FIM NESSES CARAS!
Is it just a joke to keep the real project secret?:-P
As a brazilian architect working abroad I am sad to see such kind of a “poor samble of building” which represents the brilhant brazilian architecture, recognised all around the word, in this event like the Shanghai Expo 2010.
Olhem o site desse coitado…O que que ele está fazendo ai?!!
For those not used to brazilian pratices of so called ‘competitions’ this smells like what we call “maracutaia”, façade competition, business between friends. It´s sad to say, but this isn´t uncommon here.
the idea and renderings make sense.
Clear example of Another wasted oportunity.
Andrade Morettin, MMBB, Puntoni, Studioparalelo and SPBR would be good options to develop an excelent project in Brazil.
Its Really a shame.
Speechless!!!!
marmelada hein….!
please take it out!!!
im brazilian and i feel ashamed
Guys, I am Brazilian and I am currently working in Shanghai. The idea is fair but the outcome is just mediocre. Brazil has much more to show than only jungle and poorness. Hope somebody can correct this pavillion design in time. Do you guys have any contact of the approving institution in Brazil?
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