Pakistan Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo
21
Sep 2009
The Pakistan Pavillion will be a replica of the Lahorte Fort, an iconic symbol of the city of Lahorte. The fort dates back to the year 1025 AD and is the cultural capital of modern-day Pakistan.
The 2,000 square meter pavillion is themed “harmony in diversity”, and will show various aspects of the best of Pakistan’s cities, merged into one showcase of tradition, culture, modernity and history.
In the pavilion, visitors will be able to experience the life of a typical Pakistani citizen through detailed visual and multimedia presentations. More images, after the break.
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hm, this looks awful.
Flag on the roof… (throwing out)…
more creating, less copying please
ouch….
man
this is horrible!
THIS IS THE REAL THING!
What about a flag on the roof??
Yeah, right!
A flag!
Just in case someone goes by plane in the neighborhood…
questionable how this comes together with facts of contemporary architecture… guess it’s just a kind of patriotic sign for political power.
It’s not meant to be serious. It’s just a shelter, where you can go in.
And the Louvre is just a place to keep paintings.
and the earth’s atmosphere is just a place to hold cookies, and milk
Terrible, just terrible. This expression of Pakistani architecture is way too literal.
love it!
Me too ! And I’m a modernist!
This is fun! Disneyland !
FYI: It’s spelled LAHORE.
very good joke!
please send us the real one
the real one is in Pakistan
I see how you could not like it but if this is their entry, well then they could have done much better. It’s not bad just plain.
Jesus.
compared with Pakistan and Malaysian Pavillions, I’m starting to like the Brazilian… it’s a joke.
At least its not as bad as the Australian pavilion.
Looks like one of those jumping castles. EXPO is nothing more than an amusement park pretending to be serious so it fits perfectly.
Ha ha . maybe the whole thing is inflatable !
All this expo is a joke, a really expensive one
not a bad companion to the host’s pavilion
now they are just taking the piss, right?
what is it ?
Really, why do we spend so much money on these follies. This expo really proves that the idea is outdated. Maybe next time we should just get each country to submit their CG file for a digital expo and put the saved cash to better use.
That’s hilarious! Isn’t it just wonderful to be reminded once in a while that the world still holds cultural differences and that we’re not all into the same ultra-modern japo-scandic minimalism? Bless’em for their literal & proudly patriotic approach. I wonder what the internal space will be like, maybe visitors will be strafed from the walls on arrival, it is a fort afterall !!!
This expo is going to be hilarious!
the citadel is so transparent and user-friendly. the architecture has a language. so about what tells us this building?
dear architects! who can propose pakistan government better project using the same compositions elements?
Pakistan was not like that from 1947 to 1971 as we were with them. But after 1971, when we became independent they’ve been acting….like….
The country should officially declare apology, as it committed one of the most dreadful,shocking,unkind genocide in the history of mankind by killing 3 million people of Bangladesh during the Liberation War in 1971.
I can’t expect anything better than this(Pakistan pavilion)from them.
dear naim ahmed kibria, nobody moking from this building, i can say better. i need only 15 minutes to sketch something more interesting like that.ukranian joung architects can propose pakistan government free one thousand ideas to do it better.
Vladimir, I only wish Pakistani Government realizes what they did to us in 1971 and ask for forgiveness. I believe Pakistan has thousands of Architects who can design thousand times better than this.
HI,
Naim I really am sorry for what happened to those 3 million souls, but i really do think that bangladesh brought this upon them selves and pakistan has no need to apologize.
V pakistanis have no need to apologize to u.
That said, i think this is JUST NOT the forum to discuss these issue.
and vladimir,
this is not job of any architect in pakistan.
This must have been done by our civil works dept. and accepted by some bearuecrat in isloo with a bad sense of aesthetics.
Trust me we have a lot of good architects.
if Pakistan can do it i vote the UK Changes its pavilion to a replica of Buckingham palace and the USA’s to Congress…
I agree that htere should be more national and elements of local culture in architecture, but why use elements from the past. Those same elements where used with reason in the time they were invented in. Culture is not the thing of past, but also the thing of present. And the present culture is created in present, it’s evolution. So I’m all for national and culture elements in architecture, but not for copying the past times. I’m for createing the extension of culture with reason and observing present, not copying.
what a trully inspiring piece of design. breathtaking to say the least. reminds me of Zumthor’s early work
Do I have to take my shoes off?
That´s a good exercise for terrorists to bomb. What kind of expositon is this ? it will be a pastiche or the site of world junkspace.
The theme of the Pakistan pavilion so me has interested that I have decided to make alternative sketches. Results are spread out here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vlodco_zotov/sets/72157622309403903/detail/
lol at the guards in the front entrance haha!
Is it inflatable?!?
Has anyone else replicated a real building for their Expo pavilion?
yes. me
The Shangai World Expo will be a big amusement park, perfect for Disneyland.
Is this more symptomatic of the current political/religious atmosphere in the Country?
i guess it’ll remain covered by a veil in Expo.
Dear ZEa, what was the role of Institute of Architects of Pakistan regarding this design before declaration?
Where were all the architects of civil works dept. at the time of design development? The architects shouldn’t keep quiet like the then common people of Pakistan in the time of massacre.
My pride my country gave birth 3 million souls who sacrificed their lives to the country.
it would b a matter of great disgrace if they allow visitors entry on roof top … get a life nd think out of the box plzzzz.
y not v plant like some dhanyaaa or weeds on the roof… it will b also like greeen architecture and ya most probably like roof gardenss… bwhahahahaahahhaha.. lmfao
First of all.. who has designed this Pavilion…
its sad and horrible…
vladimir zotovs alternative its actually quite nice. It shows it doesn´t take much effort to present a decent Pavillion…
Shame on the original…
I do not know if this will make feel better or worse. The good news is that just is a temporary “building” and the bad news is that if you take a walk around the brooklyn area you can find hundreds of similar matches….
what an idea!!! Brilliant!
what a waste of time and effort!!!
i,m a pakistani.love my country.pakistanis have talent to make something wonderful.but u know that our country is ruined by our baurocrates.everybody want to loot it.alas… the talented peoples r crushed by the leaders.cant go to good fields to do something new.shame on our leaders!