It is smallest building among all Shanghai pavilions this year. It not takes all area of UK plot. It has almost nothing inside. It is invisible behind the fance. And actually it is not a building at all... But long time before opening the Expo it was most famous pavilion, and after opening became most attractive. The queueing time is three hours, it means 180 minutes... have you ever been in three hours queue? Can you imagine samething just to see it you can stay so long time? Maybe tank of water in desert... Or touch Pope...
But here is just dandelion on envelope.
The answer is that never before you see building without walls, roof and even basement. Building without surface. Without definite shape and even volume. No windows, no columnes, beams and frames. Just the cloud reminds building...
Unlike other small and huge pavilions on Expo it has a lot of free space in front of itself allow stay calm and relax beyond the croud, even lying on inclined floor, and see it as you see on flame or river... Because those plastic horns are living themown live depends on wind...
It made very simple way... nothing special... plywood, 60 thousends pvc-horns, leads, water and stones...
Real iconic building:) The price is 25 millions pound.
The author is Thomas Heatherwick, I'm afraid he even not understand what a new typologe he made.
Below is small video about his inspiration for this pavilion.
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