ul. Mińska 25/44; 03-808 Warsaw; Poland
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Polish Pavilion for EXPO 2010 in Shanghai
China, Shanghai - first prize
The Polish Pavilion makes reference to tradition, but ultimately is that tradition’s contemporary reinterpretation. We aspired to make the structure in its own right, in a purely architectural dimension, a significant landmark. That it should be an attractive, eye-catching exterior both in daylight, against the panorama of other Expo facilities, as well as a mesmerizing experience at night with the edifice drawn by the multi-colored light seeping through the cut-out patterns. The structure’s overall shape, with many slanting planes, on the one hand complements and rounds out, by the suggestion of a folded sheet of paper, the ‘cut-out’ narrative, on the other creates inside a geometrically intriguing and flexible space that can be creatively apportioned, by inner divisions, to different exhibition, performance and utility functions and uses.