China Pavilion for EXPO2010
He Jingtang, China Pavilion, Shanghai EXPO 2010 China Pavilion of Shanghai EXPO 2010 was released a while ago, titled "Crown of the East", designed by a senior Chinese architect He Jingtang , but now there are some interesting discussions about it on abbs, the world biggest architectural forum, of course in China. The main issue is about: Where is the idea from? Is it representative of China after all? Many posters dig out the Japanese pavilion for EXPO '92, Sevilla, Spain , designed Tadao Ando . So, where are the both inspired from? Is His inspiration from Ando? Or is Ando's from Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) in China? What we are interested in that no matter the architect He or the debaters on abbs, swamped in opticality again. Todao Ando, Japanese pavilion for EXPO '92, Sevilla, Spain [via abbs ] Comment by Yan known as ID Bendangwuren on ABBS The competition of the pavilion undoubtly results in a typical Chinese way. As a citizen, maybe we could just think thi...