So yesterday we brought you the Walter Towers by Architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). This was our first foray into the BIG world, and after exploring their portfolio of upcoming projects, we couldn’t resist doing a back-to-back feature of another one of their bold creations. I’m sure that there is a huge team of folks in the BIG firm who are responsible for their renderings, as those released for the Danish Pavilion for Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China, have the same wow-factor as the Walter Towers. Sure they’ve left out the inherent Chinese smog, and oppression, but images are so fresh and so clean, clean.
The pavilion will incorporate 1,500 bicycles for use by visitors during the Expo. A bathing pool at the centre of the pavilion will be filled with sea water from Copenhagen harbour, shipped to Shanghai. The Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen harbour will be shipped to Shanghai and installed in a bathing pool at the centre of the pavilion, which will be filled with sea water also shipped from Copenhagen to Shanghai. The 3,000 square metre pavilion will be made from white, painted steel and manufactured at a Chinese shipyard. The facade will be perforated with with a pattern that the architects claim “reflects a Danish city silhouette”. BIG goes on to say “The Danish pavilion should not only exhibit the Danish virtues. Through interaction, the visitors are able to actually experience some of Copenhagen’s best attractions – the city bike, the harbor bath, the nature playground and an ecological picnic.”
