The Danish pavilion celebrated in Shanghai
30.11.2009
It was crowded on Monday afternoon below the heavy steel that frames the Danish Pavilion, Welfairytales. More than 300 guests had shown up on the EXPO site in Shanghai to celebrate that the raw building of the Danish pavilion is now complete and will soon be ready to welcome next year’s three million expected visitors.
A Danish delegation headed by the Danish Minister for the Environment, Troels Lund Poulsen, had travelled to Shanghai in that occasion and guests could also hear the architect of the Danish Pavilion, Bjarke Ingels from BIG, explain what the pavilion has to offer. He introduced a building shaped as a double spiral, with pedestrian and cycling lanes taking visitors from the ground and through two curves up to a level of 12 metres and down again.
In this way, the Danish exhibition can be experienced, inside and outside, at two speeds - as a calm stroll with time to absorb the surroundings, and as a bicycle trip where the city and city life drift past. The afternoon ended with Christmas punch and snacks.
