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Tailand Pavilion

"Entry"

The Thailand Pavilion has been painted red and gold, among other colors, to create a beautiful backdrop. It reveals traditional Thai architectural features. The pavilion's mascot "Tai" - a cute, friendly and cheerful child-giant – will welcome visitors at the entrance. There is a friendship clock on the roof of the pavilion, symbolizing the friendly ties between China and Thailand since a diplomatic relationship was established 35 years ago.

The exhibition is divided into "Journey of Harmony; Harmony of Difference Tones and Harmony of Thais." There will be a 360-degree hydro-screen and technologies that will let robots talk with visitors. 

The "Journey of Harmony" will take visitors to the past to explore the lifestyle of Siamese people. It portrays the story of Thais, who prospered waterside.

"Waterside"

The "Harmony of Different Tones" spotlights the interaction between urban and rural areas as well as the country's friendly exchanges with other countries. It represents Thais' pursuit of peace and harmony.

The "Harmony of Thais" embodies Thais' attitude towards life - pursuing a simple lifestyle with contentment.

"4D cinema"

Italy Pavilion

Pavilion Preview

                                         By Qian Zhou

Theme: City of Man
Highlights: 20 Functional Modules
Designer: A design Team Led by Giampaolo Imbrighi
National Pavilion Day: June 2
Pavilion Area: Around 6,000 Square Meters
Location: Within Zone C of the Expo Site

Pavilion Features

The design of the Italy Pavilion is inspired by 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.

Pavilion Display                                           

The whole pavilion embodies a mini Italian city. Strolling in the pavilion, visitors may feel like walking in a city boasting narrow streets, plazas, courtyards and lanes with an Italian flavor. Luxury cars, fashion and famous paintings are featured. The country's achievements in technology and environmental protection will also be displayed.

Highlight 1: Transparent Concrete

The pavilion makes use of a cutting-edge construction material known as transparent concrete. The Italian construction company building the pavilion may promote the material in China after the Expo.

 

Highlight 2: Inventions

The country's latest innovations, including a paint that cleans the air by eating smog,

will be displayed for two weeks this summer. About 300 winning inventions will be

exhibited from late July to early August. The inventions were submitted by small

 businesses, groups of companies, universities, research centers, and science and

technology parks in Italy.

Highlight 3: Craft Show

Italian tailors, blacksmiths and violinists will show off their craft at the pavilion.

Highlight 4: Energy Efficiency

The pavilion uses air purification and antibacterial ceramic tiles. The entire pavilion is conceived as a specific "mechanism" with ecoclimate functions and energy store devices. The integrated glass curtain wall with photoelectronic elements can isolate the emission; and the building's light beams can cover all areas within the pavilion, and achieve energy efficiency as well.

 

Taiwan Pavillion

The pavilion design is a transparent cube housing a giant ball in its center. It is mainly made of steel and glass, with the outlines of the island's Mount Morrison and Mount Ali painted on the facade. The main part of the pavilion was built with stone from Jade Mountain and soil from Yin-Ko Town. Taiwan will invite people to fly lanterns for good luck - a traditional island custom - and view its beautiful mountains and lakes at its pavilion. The pavilion showcases the island's scenery, its kind-hearted people and culture with the theme "Mountain, Water, Heart and Lantern."

There are two main highlights,which is 

1.   Movie about Taiwan's Culture and Scenery: The globe, 12 meters in 

diameter, houses a theater, where a four-minute movie about Taiwan's 

culture and scenery will be shown. The globe doubles as a screen to show 

the island's landscapes.

 2.   Lantern-flying Ceremony: The globe will be suspended over a pool of 

water, which will reflect the images shown on the globe. Visitors will be 

invited to take part in a multimedia lantern-flying ceremony on a platform 

above the pool. If 40 people make a ring on the platform, each of them will 

trigger a beam that will light the globe.

China Pavillion

China Pavillion built with  Traditional Dougong Style, located in Zone A of EXPO site. The construction on the China Pavilion began on Dec.2007, it's standing 63 meters tall and red in appearance, the China Pavilion takes the shape of an emperor's crown, with the upper layers larger than the lower ones and covering 160,000 square meters in floor space, the pavilion is composed of a national hall and a regional hall.


The pavilion will have a core exhibition area on the top floor, an experience area on the second and a functional area on the first. China's achievements in urban development from ancient to modern times will be the core theme of the pavilion.

Oriental Footprint

The wisdom that the ancient Chinese used to develop cities will be showcased with programs of different styles in Section One. A video played in the multimedia exhibition will tell stories about China's vast migration from rural to urban areas over the past 30 years of reform and opening-up, people's enthusiasm for building a better city and expectations for the future. The famous picture of “Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival” will also make its appearance in the China Pavilion to illustrate the charms of ancient Chinese cities.

"Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival"

The Experience Trip

Excursion trains will give visitors an appreciation of the great wisdom and achievements in China's urban development from ancient to modern times.

Low-carbon future

Chinese people will tackle future challenges brought by urbanization in a sustainable way which takes low-carbon technologies as its core.

China Pavillion is the most  popular pavillion in Expo 2010.        Video   CCTV Video

south africa

introduction:

"it's time for Africa"
familiar with this song? yeah, it is the celebration song for the 2010 FIFA world cup of South Africa.

his name is Zakumi, it is the mascot of FIFA 2010 of South Africa. It is a leopad, a common animal found in South Africa. The green and gold color represenst the South African national sport's team colors. His name comes from "ZA" for South Africa and "kumi" means ten in various African languages.

 so, how much do you know about the South Africa, most people will say that place produce the most precious things in the world--diamond. It is true but it has more than that.

Its captal is cape town, it has 48.7 million populations. The famous person in the whole Africa must be NelsonRolihlahla Mandela. He join the revolution and against the bad goverment, his drean is always want to give the African people the real freedom and turn the society to a democracy country. And after all the battle and struggling, he win all the respects from the black people. He gave the black people real freedom and they will never forget him from deep down heart.
and it is the reson why the South Africa pavilion has his photo in front of pavilion wall.

pavilion highlights:
1. national feature: Each iconic image of South Africa is framed and emphasized with halos. Zebra patterns on chair pads remind visitors of the natural scenery in South Africa

2. full color display screens: Full color display screens are installed at the exterior core zones to emphasize original South African cultures with images and sounds

 

3. characteristic patio: Inside the pavilion is a patio with round pads made of ostrich leather on top. Around the body of the patio are timbers for decoration, which resemble the traditional village and fences of South Africa and symbolize the core of its culture: humanity.

Turkey

introduction:

Turkey has 72.56 millions of people, it is in the middle between asia and europe. 97% of its land in the asia peninsula and only 3% lies in the Balkan peninsula. 99% of the population are islams, only few people are christians and judaism.  The capital city is Ankara.


pavilion:

The main inspiration for the exterior of the 2,000-square-meter rented pavilion was derived from one of the first known settlements in the world called "Catalhoyuk" in Turkish, the center of advanced culture in the Neolithic period. The pavilion looks like an amazing red and beige box with an animal sculpture, inviting visitors to explore a maze of dreams.

  


pavilion highlights:
1. The first section of the pavilion will take visitors through a journey of time to learn about Turkey's historical firsts. A map indicating the ancient sites of Turkey, the world's first mirror and the world's first man-built dam are featured here. In the middle section, a 360-degree movie will display scenes from the streets of Istanbul to reflect the pride of the city as the European Capital of Culture. Visitors will then encounter the future in the final section, which is represented by a symbolic figure of the phoenix, a mythical bird which dies in flames and is reborn from the ashes, to embody aspirations for the future.




2. A series of cultural activities will be staged, including traditional music and ballet performances as well as a traditional "Catalhoyuk" fashion show.


besides that, on 25th of septemper 2010, the turkey pavilion welcomed the 6 millionth visitors who is a couple from China. As a gift, the manager of this pavilion give a 8-days free trip to this couple for a honeymoon trip, how nich is that ? 

also to celebrate the 1 miilions visitors who has already visited the pavilion, on the second level of this pavilion, there is a traditional turkish restaurant . they also hang out the banner on th wall with " better cuisine, better life" to represent the enthusiams of Turkish to the delicious food.

They served the kebab as the maincourse and bachalawa as desserts. All the visitors enjoyed the food and lovely dancing performance.