[Additional Expo related articles and posts here, here, here, and here. More to come in the days and weeks ahead.] Quite a bit of discussion on Shanghai Scrap, and elsewhere, on whether or not US interests are served by building a pavilion for Shanghai’s Expo 2010. That’s good: Americans need to be thinking seriously about…
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The US Expo 2010 Pavilion Totters
Posted on Author AdamPosted in Architecture, Expo 2010, Expo 2010 - US Pavilion, US Politics, US-China Policy47 Replies
Late yesterday afternoon Expo 2010 organizers announced that all national pavilion construction work must begin by June 30. Those who miss the deadline will not be allowed to build their own pavilions, and must instead seek space in a “standardized” pavilion or use a common pavilion. The statement didn’t single out any particular country, but…
Expo 2010 Site from WAY above the river.
[Perhaps it was too much sun. In any case, the title of this post has been changed on the suggestion of several readers and one commentator.] Early this afternoon a companion and I climbed the 367 steps to the top of Shanghai’s Lupu Bridge where, 550 meters (1800 feet) at a still undetermined elevation 100…
US Expo 2010 pavilion team totally misses deadline, hires PR flack.
It’s nearly forty-eight hours since the US missed the April 15 deadline to confirm its participation at Expo 2010, and – as of five minutes ago – I can’t find a single news outlet that’s covering the story. No doubt, the deadline was a soft one that the Shanghai Organizing Committee can and will extend…
The Pavilion Wars
At the Atlantic, “The Pavilion Wars,” my reported dispatch on the various factors that will almost certainly lead to the US missing an April 15 deadline to confirm its participation – that is, its pavilion – at Expo 2010 in Shanghai (better known as the World’s Fair). More likely than not, the Shanghai Organizing Committee…
Wait a minute, Mister Postman.
As noted in previous posts, Haibao, the Gumby-like mascot for World Expo 2010, has, in the wake of the Olympics, infiltrated Shanghai. Writing from the perspective of Shanghai Scrap HQ: he is on the banners that hang from the lampposts on my street; he is on posters in the subway station downstairs; and he is…
Where Fuwa Fear to Tread.
I promise that – in the run-up to Expo 2010 – I will not make a habit of Haibao posts [Haibao being the mascot for the 2010 World Expo]. But over the last five days or so, the roll-out of Expo 2010/Haibao-related material in Shanghai has been so rapid and massive, that I feel justified…
Haibao, on the street where I live.
While I was out of China two very important events happened in my neighborhood. First, everyone’s favorite pirate DVD shop re-opened. And second, the Beijing 2008 banners were pulled off lampposts and replaced with World Expo 2010 banners. I leave commentary on Haibao, the mascot, to those who did it much earlier, and much better,…