China Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010

Sep 2009

By Sebastian J — Filed under: News , China, Pavillion, Shanghai 2010

The Chinese Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is already in construction. Being the country that hosts the World Expo, the pavillion designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang stands in the central location of the Expo site at 63 meters tall, which triple the height of any other pavillion.

The main structure of the China Pavillion, “The Crown of the East,” has a distinctive roof, made of traditional dougong or brackets, which has a history dating back more than 2,000 years.

Below the main structure, there will be a 45,000-square-meter joint pavilion featuring the displays from local provinces, cities and regions. For more information, click here. More images after the break.

63 comments »

Dustin says:

Probably not the prettiest pavilion but at least it reflects the country it comes from unlike all the others.

# September 3, 2009 at 17:54

t.heiredal says:

unlike the danish, sending the national symbole [the little mermaide] and give away 1001 city bikes?

# September 4, 2009 at 09:41

leo says:

they have some sculpture from Aiweiwei(chinese artist) for exchange during that period, and danish has a lot of bikes i guess.

# September 7, 2009 at 09:04

panza says:

http://www.ron-del.net/ba/03-07-22_m_sro_1.jpg

reminds me of a building from bratislava – built in 70’s , a Slovak Radio building

# September 3, 2009 at 18:21

jose says:

just when we thought authoritarian brutalism was over

# September 3, 2009 at 19:53

David Basulto [tricky] says:

Reminds me of the Geisel Library at UCSD:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideaholic/3332777982/

# September 3, 2009 at 19:59

dp says:

re bueno!!!
personalmente lo hubiese tratado de hacer de madera, a la antigua usansa de las pagodas, pero de todas maneras muy preciso!

# September 3, 2009 at 20:49

andreas says:

for some reason, the fourth picture down kinda severs whatever links to the past building still had…i guess huge goofy spotlights will do that….

# September 3, 2009 at 20:57

fengfeng says:

傻逼方案

# September 3, 2009 at 21:14

SHADOW says:

网友说这充分体现了中国上大于下社会关系

# September 3, 2009 at 23:49

QFWFQ says:

埃及的金字塔让人想到至高无上的法老和愚昧的奴隶制，世博会中国馆则提示出虚张妄狂的独裁政府和努力挣扎的卑微百姓。中国GCD可能觉得自己是地球的主宰，它得意于这样一座盛气凌人的建筑彰显了自己的“稳固”地存在，却不可能阻止民主化和自由社会的到来。

# September 5, 2009 at 08:14

LCLEE says:

算了吧，你所谓的民主也是虚妄不实的！

# September 5, 2009 at 08:19

QFWFQ says:

对民主和自由，我依据我的内心，有自己的理解。是不是虚妄不实，也只有自己能判断。

# September 5, 2009 at 08:24

LCLEE says:

自己的判断往往是狭隘的！

# September 5, 2009 at 10:38

killuation says:

“自己的判断往往是狭隘的！” 这种定义毫无逻辑可言……

# September 5, 2009 at 10:49

roy says:

我不知道你是在国内还是国外，我不知道你是华裔还是中国籍，我只知道你自以为是地以为自己很了解中国现状…我是百姓，我周围的朋友都是普通的百姓，我们从未感觉到自己很卑微。笑你怕影响世界和平

# September 5, 2009 at 13:51

QFWFQ says:

我觉得中国人生活在制度性破坏中，当然作为个人，也许你是受利者，你可能感觉不到很卑微，但是我说的是制度对人性的压迫和扭曲。
制度上的问题，我可以借用O8宪/章提出的19条主张，这些主张提示出中国在制度上的不理想之处。我觉得一个更优良的制度才能保证个人的健康和社会的和谐，免于各种恐惧。
19条主张如下（如果因为此帖导致ArchDaily被屏蔽，将更加证明个人面对制度之无奈与悲哀）

# September 5, 2009 at 21:48

QFWFQ says:

1、修改宪法：根据前述价值理念修改宪法，删除现行宪法中不符合主权在民原则的条文，使宪法真正成为人权的保证书和公共权力的许可状，成为任何个人、团体和党派不得违反的可以实施的最高法律，为中国民主化奠定法权基础。

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19、转型正义：为历次政治运动中遭受政治迫害的人士及其家属，恢复名誉，给予国家赔偿；释放所有政治犯和良心犯，释放所有因信仰而获罪的人员；成立真相调查委员会，查清历史事件的真相，厘清责任，伸张正义；在此基础上寻求社会和解。

# September 5, 2009 at 21:50

roy says:

政府的功能本来不就是让这个社会上的每个人受益吗？当然这是一个理想状态。对！我就是这个社会的受利者，那你从何知道我这样的受利者只是社会的一小部分？大部分人都感到很卑微吗？无论是我的祖籍家乡还是我自己的家乡，还是我现在所在的这所城市，都是世世代代生活最富裕的时候，周围的人我完全看不出来他们感到自己很卑微。不要挑刺，这个世界上不可能没有穷人，中国正在试图减少他们，13亿人不是完全听话的13个兵。另外你这句话我很占同，“ 我觉得一个更优良的制度才能保证个人的健康和社会的和谐，免于各种恐惧。”但何以见得中国的制度在压迫和扭曲人性？我一直容忍你们这些人的存在，不想如果改善制度，就一味批评。很多打着民主自由旗号的人事实上已经在破坏我们的生活，夺取我的朋友跟亲人。这里不是中国的网站，要是被屏蔽了不要说中国的制度怎样。

# September 5, 2009 at 23:26

Ming says:

indeed!!

# September 14, 2009 at 00:53

Laydo says:

“triple the height of any other pavillion” what a welcoming gesture by the host nation. I find this objectionable and boring. Look at any other page on this website and see what majestic wonders could have been considered instead.

# September 3, 2009 at 22:20

mooi says:

Tadao’s tokyo pavilion?

http://www.bloggang.com/data/koipotter/picture/1241508469.jpg

# September 3, 2009 at 22:50

PSR says:

That was Tadao Ando’s japanese pavillion for Sevilha world expo 1992

# September 4, 2009 at 04:12

Mathew says:

PRETENTIOUS

# September 4, 2009 at 00:18

sword says:

what a trash.most of my architect friends in china dont like this conservative project. i am a fans of Archdaily beacause i like all the new buildings and all the creative projects.The most important raison is all the projects are seriously selected by you,our dear editors.but this time you make me disappointed.you know this projet is only a bad advertisement of the EXPO.from the architects’s eye, it is a very poor projet.IT HAS SOME POSSIBILITY OF COPY .the architect who design it has no creative vision. so i hope you to get it rid of this website.

a chinise architect.

# September 4, 2009 at 00:55

David Basulto [tricky] says:

Dear Sword,

We are going to feature ALL the pavilions for the expo. This gives everyone a chance to do the critique, and evaluate them by knowing all that is being presented at the Expo.

# September 4, 2009 at 11:11

YAUHO says:

even if we chose not to talk about the style or scale of the project, the quality of the design is not what you would have hoped. Yes, Ando did something similar more than once, but with a construction clarity that this project lacks completely.

# September 4, 2009 at 01:26

biboarchitect says:

Arato isozaki has exactly the same building for Qatar!!!

# September 4, 2009 at 02:03

biboarchitect says:

Arata isozaki.. sorry :)

# September 4, 2009 at 02:03

multimater says:

I went there last year!

Oh wait…. no, I went here…

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20030727_27_July_2003_Tokyo_International_Exhibition_Center_Big_Sight_Odaiba_Tokyo_Japan.jpg

# September 4, 2009 at 05:44

David Basulto [tricky] says:

In terms of structure they have nothing in common…. I think that the intersected beams of this building are quite something…

# September 4, 2009 at 11:13

Marc says:

I went there last month and took a couple of fotos.
The beams which are considered to be intersected are not exactly doing some structure things. They are more just skin things.
But it is really a fantastic structure developed by the ancient. Mostly used in traditional buildings in China.
http://photo.renren.com/getalbum.do?id=317406635&owner=248472544

# September 4, 2009 at 13:21

aston79 says:

so 70’s…. vry dated

# September 4, 2009 at 08:26

Chen says:

hate it. I’m wondering why archdaily puts it here…

# September 4, 2009 at 10:39

David Basulto [tricky] says:

Dear Chen, please read my response above.

# September 4, 2009 at 11:11

QFWFQ says:

i also think so.
i think this bad design made the level of Archdaily become lower!!
我也这么想，我觉得这个坏建筑拉底了Archdaily整体水准！！

欢迎加入每日建筑讨论2群9946538。
创建于2009/08/26

# September 5, 2009 at 08:20

Blackbuddha says:

At least u r a Chinese!

# December 11, 2009 at 01:38

ygogolak says:

From all the links people posted all it takes to be the same is have some sort of an inverted pyramid. It’s all been done before people.

# September 4, 2009 at 12:13

cad says:

Stargate 2009

# September 4, 2009 at 14:35

the dude says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_of_Slovak_radio

# September 5, 2009 at 05:00

the dude says:

also the same than the office building on the artificial island in tokyo

# September 5, 2009 at 05:01

oo says:

just copy of metabolist, early isozaki….
nothing new

# September 5, 2009 at 16:24

roy says:

u r SB(it means idiot

# September 7, 2009 at 06:57

RT says:

hey, watch ur language! archdaily may ban us(chinese) from visiting the website! dont cause us any trouble

# September 7, 2009 at 21:53

H. Huang says:

I m living next to the expo site rite now and get to see this thing at least twice a day. .. god its huge and stupid…
its main concept should be the traditional Chinese wooden brackets (斗拱) which are supposed to be quite light. here this heavy thing has lost the feeling compeletly…

# September 7, 2009 at 02:13

RT says:

feel sorry for u…

# September 7, 2009 at 21:51

Chris Ling says:

Shan Zhai?

# September 7, 2009 at 18:14

Hex says:

yeah. Looks like what Arata Isozaki did in the 60s
But Isozaki’s idea was to provide an alternative typology for housing. According to Isozaki, those tree trunks are inhabitable.
http://workjes.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/c-in-the-air.jpg

While for He JingTang, I guess it was just to mimmick an old element in Chinese Architecture and scale it up for the expo…
http://www.yingchengj.com/jpg/14.jpg
Still, the thing holds the roof. Not really a new design in any way but I guess his idea was to make something BIG with local (and here historical) technology… successful huh?

You can argue the origin. Who did what first, or what looks like what.

Chinese did the dougong 2000 years ago.
But the problem is, why still showing it some 2000 years later?

# September 8, 2009 at 21:27

biboarchitect says:

also the Qatar national library looks exactly the same
http://media.photobucket.com/image/qatar%20national%20library/mheiss01/QatarNationalLibrary1.jpg

# September 14, 2009 at 03:17

ann.16years says:

some day Chinese people will rule da world! you’ll c! they r comin’

# September 14, 2009 at 03:15

william says:

I can not got the meaning of this pavilion,which has poor idea and structure.Maybe they wanted to creat the original building by using the element which from the traditional architecture.But what I can understand is that all the chinese architects are trying to creat their own architectureal skills.

# November 4, 2009 at 10:36

bshi says:

a bold project.
has a lot to say about china’s culture and carries that meaning across.
not the prettiest building around but very conceptual, simple and elegant.

# November 7, 2009 at 01:12