Herzog & de Meuron   Italy   Located in the quietest part of the fairgrounds, the Slow Food pavilion is made up of three wooden-framed cabins arranged around a triangular courtyard.

Daniel Libeskind   Italy   The organic form of the building and the 4,000 decontaminating scales cladding its skin metaphorically refer to he dragon, the protector of harvests in Chinese culture.

Atsushi Kitagawara   Italy   The thickly set grid of the facade has been constructed following the principles of the Japanese ‘cidori’ tradition, where neither nails nor glues are used.

MADE arhitekti   Italy   In the image and likeness of a tree, the pavilion is made up of three parts: the foliage houses offices and the conference hall; the shaded staircase beneath the branches functions as a large public space; and the service areas are located in the roo

Netwerch Architektur   Italy   Four deposits of local products within the reach of the visitors make up the pavilion, connected to one another and to the main building via an elevated platform; the project invites to reflect on food scarcity and our consumer habits...

Foster + Partners   Italy   Evoking the desert experience, the pavilion presents two large walls stretching sinuously to offer a long exhibition route that ends in a small oasis.

Studio Link-Arc   Italy   The waves of the undulating roof, built with laminated wood and bamboo, suggest the fusion of cities and nature, and reinterpret the codes of traditional Chinese architecture. 

Undurraga Devés arquitectos   Italy   Aunque desde lejos aparenta ser un volumen compacto, de cerca el pabellón chileno revela su rico entramado de vigas de madera que es a la vez su piel y sus huesos.

Studio Arthur Casas Atelier Marko Brajovic   Italy   The translucent net of the Brazilian Pavilion evokes the country’s rich agricultural tradition through a panoptic scheme that, however, offers visitors different paths through the interior.

team.breathe.austria   Italy   An exact wooden prism is mixed with a small forest of plants and trees, misting nozzles, and ventilators with which it succeeds in producing enough oxygen for 1,800 visitors.

Nemesi & Partners   Italy   Taking on the appearance of an urban forest, the pavilion unfurls its volume from four stumps around a central clearing, dressing up with a skin that decontaminates the air.

XTU   Italy   Formed by a very dense scheme of beams of laminated wood, the seemingly closed tree-like building contains a large public square within it.

Wolfgang Buttress Tristan Simmonds   Italy   Inspired in the metaphor of the hive, the pavilion is built with 169,300 pieces of golden aluminum which palpitate at the rhythm of a real swarm of bees 1,500 kilometers away.

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos   Italy   A good part of the success of Spain’s agricultural production can be attributed to a combination of tradition and innovation: that is the argument proposed at the Spanish Pavilion, illustrated by way of siamese gable-roof sheds, with a markedly elong

Today the world produces more food than it consumes, and yet 800 million people go hungry. Figures of this nature, and of course the fact that gastronomy is one of the strongholds of the culture and economy of Italy, explain the ‘Feeding the Planet’

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Milan hasn’t reinvented the expos, but has organized one better than many. The visionary original concept of Jacques Herzog – together with Italian architect Stefano Boeri, British urbanist Ricky Burdett, American green architect William McDonough an

Fulvio Irace   The climate of economic and social austerity has pushed away the gimmicky formulas of previous universal expositions in favor of simpler and more sustainable architecture.

Richard Ingersoll   Simona Galateo   The urbanization layer that globalization has brought to Milan takes the form of trademark buildings which stimulate gentrification and alter the city’s skyline and traditional scheme.

The competition for the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 already has a winner. The Barcelona-based firm B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos has been selected out of a total of thirty-one participants for an entry whose title, ‘The Language of Taste’,

A pocos meses del comienzo de la Exposición Universal de Shanghai, ya están en marcha los preparativos de las dos siguientes exposiciones internacionales, que tendrán lugar, respectivamente, en Yeosu (Corea) en 2012, y en Milán en 2015. Para esta últ