World Expo Shanghai 2010 Pavilions – Some Favourites – General

www.lostlaowai.com — In less than two months the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will start its six-month run. As I’m slowly catching Expo Fever, I thought I’d run through a few of my favourite pavilions, comparing and contrasting what the official word on the structure is with my amateur thoughts and opinions.
This list is by no means a complete list of pavilions or “good” pavilions. Rather, it is a list of the pavilions that stuck out to me in my random browsing of the Internet and the official World Expo Shanghai 2010 Web site.

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World Expo Shanghai 2010 Pavilions – Some Favourites

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Damjan_D 1 year 47 weeks ago

About Israel's building...I'm pretty sure that their design team is full of starcraft fans, cause it that's not a Protoss building I don't know what is. Keep in mind that the last time I played the game was 12 years ago and I made the connection within five seconds ==> http://illsmokum.tripod.com/thehive/id33.html

Spot on with the description of Brazil's offering...I would add that it could also be said to look like a second grade project for the social studies chapter on dinosaurs...sans dinosaurs, of course.

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