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Canada Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010

29Jul 2009By Sebastian J Filed under:News, Canada, China, Shanghai 2010

The 6,000-square-meter Canada Pavilion, among the biggest at the site, willfeature an exhibition themed The Living City: Inclusive, Sustainable, Creative. It is expected to welcome up to 5.5 million

people or 30,000 visitors per day during the six-month Expo period.

The pavilion will be anchored by an open public place and surrounded by three large structures. The square will be aperforming area, where visitors can watch the performances of Cirque du Soleilbefore checking out the pavilion, saidGregson.

The overall budget for the Canadian pavilion will be 45 million Canadian dollars (US$43.57 million), she added. Canada has

also given environmental protection consideration into the pavilion. Part of the pavilions exterior walls will be covered by aspecial kind of greenery and rainwater will be collected by a drainage system for use inside the pavilion.

Cirque du Soleil created the concept design for the Pavillion and will also create public performances, organize culturalprograms and develop strategic corporate alliances for the pavillion.

Seen at archtracker. More images after the break.

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39 comments

StructureHub Blogsays:

Not very notable; and Cirque du Soliel designed it? Maybe I just dont dig the renderings

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#July 29, 2009 at 12:38park says:

Has that something to do with CANADA?? Not really

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 12:41

Balkan says:

This is horrible!Aaaargh

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 12:44

jose says:


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it seems as if the Shanghai expo is a contest of wich country makes the wierdest building

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#July 29, 2009 at 12:59

jr says:

agree

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 14:17

William Bellsays:

Cirque du Soleil deserved better..

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 13:45

Claude says:

Le Cirque du Soleil they removed circle from circusThey should stick to doing circus related things.. and leave architecture to architects

Not very impressive 3 thumbs down

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#July 29, 2009 at 15:43Fredsays:

Design help anyone?

Next time, do not hesitate to contact professionals instead of letting the jugglers do the work.

Clowns should stick to clowning, cos this is fugly.


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Reply#July 29, 2009 at 16:00

Pedro Ribeiro da Silva says:

Another fine piece of the worst kind of architectureTheres nothing good that, even with a big effort, i could say about thisTHING..

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 19:07

Wargo says:

Look as a smashed paper bag.

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 20:16

Martin says:

From archtracker: Cirque du Soleil created the concept design for the Canada Pavilion, said Gregson. The country is stillsearching for contractors for its architectural services,

So architects have been reduced to contractors for architectural services to deliver building concepts designed by clowns.This is sad, and deeply embarrassing as a Canadian.

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 20:44

Juni says:

Hopefully they wrote CANADA on it

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 20:51

pat says:

ahahah


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right man!

Reply#January 2, 2010 at 06:23

Tuf-Pak says:

What on earth is happening at this expo? Is there a single noteworthy pavilion?

I guess the Mexico Pavilion is reasonable, but everything else Ive seen makes a truck stop look like the Taj Mahal.

Reply#July 29, 2009 at 21:24

Juni says:

Italy is nice

Reply#July 31, 2009 at 03:32

citicritter says:

Come on people, the British, Polish and Austrian pavilions thatve been published are all pretty nice, and this Canadian oneisnt even that bad. Its the lack (so far, and likely forever) of a US pavilion that is truly pathetic.

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 00:32

joninberlin says:

Im Canadian. This is embarrassing

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 05:36

krisztin says:


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i agree

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#December 2, 2009 at 06:28

LEONEL says:

I HAVENT INTEREST IN VISIT THAT PLACE....AND MAYBE AT THE ENTRANCE THEY ASK YOU FOR A VISA

..OBVIUSLY IM FROM MEXICO

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 10:18

Renante Solivar says:

ok ok ok enough with the hate! I think it has alot of potential. the form reminds me of rocks. the fact that Canada is knownfor Cirque du Soleil, is great. unfortunate, sure every Architect in Canada would love to have designed the Pavilion, it didnot happen this way.

The question i have is why did we not have a competition in Canada for this? That i blame on us (Canadians) for notdemanding that process! Complaining after the fact does not count!

like, dont like, whatever. criticize to make it better,then; be specific. So if you want better designs coming out of Canada tothe rest of the world; make it happen.

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 11:00

WFL says:

I am with you, bro!

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 12:29

claudem says:


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Cirque du Soleil?cummon this is a joke!!!cummon tell us the whole truth?whos behind this joke?

I participated in a competition for the Maltese pavillion, was short listed and had to pass thro hells gate! only to get somesecond place!and Canada comes with this blunder?Canada hire me at [email protected]

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 12:10

JuanLuisBurke says:

Something smells rotten in Canada oh yeah, its their visa policies and their Shanghai Expo pavilion!!!

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 17:19

Martin says:

Maybe our visa policies were designed by the same clowns that designed this pavilion.

Reply#July 30, 2009 at 21:01

Luisol says:

Touch mate!

#August 13, 2009 at 18:02

Samuelsays:

Im actually looking forward to the Expo.

So much bad architecture in one place must surely be a catalyst for change.


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Reply#July 31, 2009 at 09:45

montreal says:

Cirque du soleil did not in any way design this, they hired an architect to produce a design under their name, as they did foranother project in japan. They never give credit to the actual designers, Cirque du soleil is a Circus not an Architectureoffice.the last rendering is from a previous project that has nothing to do with the actual project.Plus Cirque du soleil has modified the design to suit their taste after design was finalized by the architects (IE the big uglyCanada Logo on the faade)

Reply#August 7, 2009 at 15:43

hochelaga says:

We want names


Scottmft says:

Oh, Canadahow the hell did Cirque de Soleil get this gig?We have real architectsreally, we do!


G says:

Are there _any_ good pavilions?


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Shane in Wpg says:

I keep going back and looking at the pictures.

I remain speechless!

OK! OK! I cant say it in polite pulic!


Topnotch says:

Let me get this right. All the people on this blog are a lot better then all the architects in the entire expo what a bunch oflooser you are. How can you pretend to be even close to these guys . If you are blogging how bad the others are maybe itstime for you to get a real job!

For the Canadian pavilion, The cirque knows how to move people in deliver a great time- move people out and give themsomething to remember. They never failed and you can be sure it will be amazing. 35000 people everyday will go through it.The design of the pavilion represent two arms holding people, the outside is made of wood from british columbia.

Reply#December 22, 2009 at 16:13

Drem says:

a lot of people like MacMansion to the design of that pavilion is a bit weak.

Football team can fill in 100 000 places stadium and amaze them why not a design by a football team?? you never

know migh be amazing to There is some very nice pavilion (concept design etc) for 2010 expo but the canadian oneis not one of them The cirque du soleil is still stucked in 1980 1990 attidude toward design and this attemp to get outof it is not an happy one and lack any real intensity and rigorousness the show inside might be great (they are acircus they are used to making show) but the building itself look like an unfinished draft.

It is not because we have the technology to build everything that every thing is great and it not because a Canadianwood is used to clad a building that it make the building a great canadian work of art

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Good content, thanks for sharing it with us

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