Pavilions (UK, France, Italy)

United Kingdom Pavilion

Country:United Kingdom
Capital:London
Theme:Builiding on the Past, Shaping Our Future
Highlights:Seed Cathedral, Wrapping paper
Location:Within Zone c of the Expo site




Features
The first exposition in England was held in Crystal palace at Hyde Park,
but it was destroyed by a fire half century ago. Today, United Kingdom brought a new vision
of Crystal Palace to World Expo. It's a dazzling cube formed by more than 60,000 slim and transparent acrylic rods containing seeds of different plants that were collected in a bio-diversity project. (from official website)

Highlights

1.Green Cities:

Visitors will travel through four UK's capital cities from west to east - Belfast, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh. Large "green maps" of the cities are on display. The best way to show how green British cities really are is to "erase" all the buildings and streets, leaving only the green spaces.

2.Seed Cathedral

The core exposition of the UK's pavilion are different plants.They will be surrounded by the seeds in a 20-meter-high hollow cube-like structure with the seeds embedded in the walls and ceilings. The seeds demonstrate the concept of sustainability, the diversity of nature and the potential of life.

3.Living City

Showing imaginary future plants and a lot of plants in the living city. It wants people to know how scientists do for our earth and how science has used nature in area, and how plants of the future could offer solutions to climate change and other global concerns.

4.Olympic Corner

A place to give visitors a view about the future scene in the Olympics 2012. The area features a large "green map" of the 2.5-square-kilometer Olympic Park in Stratford in East London, which will be turned into the largest city park in Britain

5.City Park

The place is to designed to be the area for performances and for children to play football as a city park. Some UK football stars may be on hand to teach soccer skills to children. Many activities will focus on the English traditional theater- strenching back to Williams Shakesbear. In addition, some performances of currently international prestigious artists and performers.

France Pavilion
Country: Framce
Capital: Paris
Theme: The Sensual City
Highlights: A Style of Floating

Location: Within Zone C of the Expo site

Features

The "Sensual City" itself is impressive with a large, classical roof garden and a pond. The walls of the square-shaped structure, which is made from a special concrete, are covered in plants and it looks like a white floating palace. Gardens are the centerpiece of the pavilion. (from official website)

Highlight

1. Floating Palace

It seems like floating in the beauty rhyme with water

2. French Style Garden

There are streams, fountains and water gardens in it so visitors can enjoy in the sound and aquatic environment. Playing the sound effect of the French city makes people a feeling that they were walking in France.

3. Sights, Smells, Tastes, Sounds and Feel of France

The idea wants to give people both the atmosphere and the sense of France

4. Alain Delon

Alain Delon is a spokesman of France Pavilion and will introduce his close ties with China at the France Pavilion Channel.

5. Cat Leon

The mascot of France will interact with every visitor.

6. Romantic French Wedding

It's a chance for people to witness a romantic French wedding. New couples will tie the knot in the beautiful French-style garden within the pavilion.

Italy Pavilion
Country: Italy
Capital: Rome
Theme: City of Man
Highlights: 20 Functional Modules
Location: Within Zone c of the Expo site


Features
It's inspired the children's game "pick-up sticks," which is known as "Shanghai" in Italy. The rectangular pavilion has been laced with intersecting lines - representing pick-up sticks. It comprises 20 functional modules of different shapes, bounded by the "sticks." They represent Italy's 20 regions. The modules can be assembled into smaller structures. (from the official website)

Hignlights

1.Transparent Concrete

It means making use of a cutting-edge construction material. The building company of the pavilion will promote the material to China after the Expo.

2.Inventions
It includes the country's latest innovations, such as a paint that cleans the air by

eating smog. There are about 300 winning things displayed in the pavilion.

3.Craft show

Italy is known for its crafts and famous brand all over the world. In the pavilion, people can see many art crafts produced by tailors, blacksmiths and violinists.

                                        4. Energy Efficiency

Reference:

World Expo Shanghai China. 8 Jun. 2010 http://en.expo2010.cn/hec/en_gj_tpl_38.htm