Nepal Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010
The foundation of the Nepal Pavilion was completed this week. With the theme “Tales of Kathmandu City,” the pavilion will capture important historic moments of the city. The pavilion will put on display the luster of Katmandu, the capital city of Nepal and an architectural, artistic and cultural center that has developed over 2,000 years.
The theme touches upon the soul of a city by exploring its past and future. Another highlight of the pavilion will be Nepal’s efforts in environmental protection and developing renewable energies. The pavilion is in the form of an ancient Buddhist temple in Kathmandu, surrounded by traditional Nepalese houses.
A car or motorcycle rally will run from Lumbini to the Expo site. The rally will bring the “eternal flame of peace” to Shanghai from Nepal. More images after the break.
oh dear…
care to be more specific? would be more useful you know.
hahahahah, sketchup
No, The Sims…
no seriously, that is sketchup… well at least its definitely sketchup people
that was unexpected
exept one or two thing, every thing seems good, love it
keep gooing like this
i do not understand why this pavillion has been published… If this is an example of architecture that can be shown without any critics, i think we should show too ignorant architecture from suburbs or disneyland parks.
Un saludo desde españa
Isn’t it a bit naive to think that Disneyland architecture is “ignorant”? Read up on your American History of Urban Design” and you will find that the Disneyland model was considered down to the very smallest detail and that a huge portion of any retail, leisure, entertainment and even residential architecture built since is too some degree imitating it. These are interesting reads: Boris Borman Jensen: “Dubai – Dynamics of Bingo Urbanism”. The Architectural Publisher B. 2007.
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Alan E. Bryman. The Disneyization of Society. Sage Publications. 2004.
If you cannot accept “Expo-tecture” at an expo, then where?
No.
This is Disneyland architecture.
And its ignorant.
disneylandtecture
there was a time when the WORLD EXPO and its pavillions were more than just “circus stands”… materiality and technology used to be more effective on showing the different aspects on each culture…
Is this the Sims restaurant? or maybe the neighboors house? I can’t remember…
ughhhhhhh
God save the architecture…
This is a fresh breeze of other reality to all the contemporary architecture fanboys and fangirls. You are not going to find such architecture in sleek and shiny architectural magazines of course.
World Expo pavillion is a constructed image of a country, therefore if we consider the degree of economical and overall development of Nepal (GDP 7 times smaller than Denmark etc.) then this is a true image of the country today.
I follow the direction you’re going with your idea. But to be fair, this is not representative architecture in the shape of a pavillion, this is a rather cheap pastiche.
It doesn’t need to be a rocketship, or bubbly cad-cam creation.
I would suggest looking at the Alvar Aalto’s Finish pavilion or the Brazilian Pavilion’s by Neiemeyer, or the pavilion by Sverre Fenn. I know they’re dated. But the masterly thing about them is how they represent ideas, emotions, materials, and even politics of a country without this weirdo knee-jerk (and poor quality) romantic representationalism.
I think nearly every pavilion announced for this Expo has been lamentable, but
designer’s dilemma.
that’s why we turn to umberto eco for solace. and for protection.
you might want to look him up.
I was reading all the comments and ur comment stroked me so badly.. I’m a Nepalese and i wud agree the quality of the design which is shown here is not gud… but the real building is quite nice.. hve u seen the pic?? you pronounced this design “cheap pastiche”…. but i think its representing our country may b its an imitation of different cultures from Nepal. and again u said ” weirdo knee-jerk romantic representationalism” plz wud u define wht xactly u meant when u said this??? its neither weird nor romantic… thnx
I totally disagree with you…good architecture does not always mean that it has to be “sleeky and shiny”. The theory of Critical Regionalism Architecture would be fitting for Nepalese Modernity……Contemporary Nepalese architecture can still use the basic materials, texture and method of construction and draw inspiration from the past architectural forms but re-interpretate the forms and space to reflect the current day.
The Stupa is badly interpreteted in the 2010 Expo…looks more decorative without any intellectual arguments for what it is.
Sorry for the ignorant question, but what do they do with these Expo architecture after the Expo is over? What happen to the architecture from past Expo?
This question is not ignorant. Its quit a problem for all the expos, to find users after the show. I found a german website of the re-use for the buildings of the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Some of the buildings has been demolished, some has been deconstructed and rebuild in an other city, some buildings have new users…
http://www.expo2000.de/expo2000/nachnutzung/index.php
i am a nepalese and let me know you that we too use the materials after the expo is over and the other fact is nepal’s gdp is not that small it’s just 3 times less than that of denmark.
they will all be removed after the Expo,thank God………….
I can’t wait to see the World Expo in Milan!!
:-)
It`s a shame for a culture like the nepalian to be represented by that thing
By the way we are not Nepalian we’re Nepalese and what the hell do you know about our culture?
Nep,
What kind of an idiotic response is that…apologies Juan.
Juan, yes, it is a shame tha we have not taken advantage of our rich culture to create a better contemporary architecture.
what is this? this is something you do when you learn sketchup. btw, i’m nepalese and this building doesn’t expose anything from nepal.
point taken. well, this is the thing that’s going to come up in shanghai.
making fun of sketchup appears to be fashionable on this web page, much to our consternation.
would welcome more creative and substantive comments though.
haha. sorry about that. i think the presentation could’ve used a little bit of photoshopping to not make this look like an object. also, this thing is a copy and paste from what already exists in kathmandu so i don’t think this qualifies as a design but rather a product.
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, not taking its meaning into consideration and not even knowing at all the country they are talking about. People started criticizing every project and saying that people should be ashamed of their country´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 opinion people are over reacting and badly judging everything wihtout further considerations, it becomes silly and pointless to give any opinion at all when based on that kind of approach.
wow,its amazin…great.
Hi bms,
are you the bms that I think you are???
no i am the yak in mustang.
what else can i say to the yeti in ktm?
from a position of anonymity you have me at a disadvantage.
Yes, its definitely you…who else can be so sarcastically witty.
Great………….
compared to others it looks really excellent.
Sure we stole! the architecture i mean.
But we stole it from our own backyard, or junkyard if you like, considering the state of all our culture, heritage, tradition and all things good and nice.
Speaking of which, and speaking of the other pavilions, especially the high tech, highly personalized novelties: they have as much culture etc as the Large Hadron Collider.
Sure we have God on our side, and they have the Hubble Telescope. But at the confluence between the two: THAT’S where Architecture happens, and THAT’S where we push and peddle our wares!
I am a Nepalese and trained as an architect overseas. I am embarassed with what Nepal had put up at the expo. Such a rich culture and history to draw inspiration from yet they put a replica of what was done hundreds of years ago.
I hope this will not be repeated again.
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