Wu Zhiqiang: Warm Stories In World Expo's Pavilions

Wu Zhiqiang, chief planner of World Expo Park in Shanghai, said: "the pavilion of the Expo site is a new building in Shanghai.

They are not cold houses, but are full of warm feelings, including the feelings of designers, and the respect and preferences of all countries in the world for Chinese culture.

Because of his work, Wu Zhiqiang not only led the team out of the 2010 World Expo final plan "world eye", but also worked with designers all over the world to understand the colorful story behind the world's pavilion.

In the Expo site, adjacent to the "Oriental Crown" China Pavilion, it is such an Israeli Pavilion carrying a designer's exotic love.

The Israeli pavilion looks like a conch.

The spiral structure is made up of half glass, half of the original stone, and the Tai Chi totem of yin and Yang.

Every time Wu Zhiqiang meets Chaim, the designer of the Israeli Pavilion, he laments his deep affection for China.

It turned out that Chaim's grandparents took refuge in Shanghai during World War II, where they found a warm and safe place to live.

Chaim's mother was born in Shanghai.

Because of his family's love for Shanghai, Chaim was interested in Chinese culture and history from an early age.

When he accepted the mission of designing the Israeli Pavilion, he decided to "design with his attachment to his mother" to make this building a symbol of the friendship between Israel and China.

Chaim said that Israel and Shanghai were linked together by sea, so he designed "conch".

In the eyes of the Israeli designer, the highest wisdom of Chinese culture is "harmony", which includes two completely different things.

The unique design of yin and Yang blend in the Israeli Pavilion is a tribute to the concept of "harmony" in Chinese culture.

"When you know the story behind a building, maybe when you visit World Expo, you can see that it is not a house, but a rich feeling. It is a designer's understanding of world civilization and Chinese culture, and it is the love between the world and China."

Wu Zhiqiang said.

Wu Zhiqiang also decrypted that the Hollywood 3D blockbuster "Afanda" was so popular that the whole world was familiar with the English word "IMAX".

What is rare is that the huge IMAX screen is in the Saudi Museum of Expo site.

The Saudi Pavilion has built an aerial 3D cinema for China, with a screen of 1600 square meters, which is equivalent to the "Two Football Hall".

The building of such a huge screen in Saudi Arabia is not to show off wealth, but to show a movie.

Wu Zhiqiang revealed that this special film tells a love story between a Chinese and a Arabia woman who crossed the silk road more than one thousand years ago, expressing the mutual appreciation and mutual admiration of the two ancient civilizations.

In fact, linking Wu Zhiqiang to Shanghai and World Expo is also a 26 year cause.

26 years ago, Wang Daohan, the former mayor of Shanghai, told Wu Zhiqiang when he presented the prizes to Wu Zhiqiang at Tongji University. "You are learning to plan, you can pay attention to some situations in World Expo, collect some materials, and do some work for World Expo to hold World Expo in the future."

Since then, World Expo has planted seeds in Wu Zhiqiang's heart.

Three years later, Wu Zhiqiang went to Germany to study for a doctorate. He saw more and more comprehensive introduction to World Expo's materials, and learned that it was a powerful and powerful country. It began to make a long-term and unremitting quest for how to participate in World Expo.

In July 2004, Wu Zhiqiang led the design team after more than 100 days and nights of torment, came out with 28 buildings woven, and the two sides of Pujiang cross-linked into the final plan of World Expo 2010 "world eye", won the admiration of the world.

Now, with the opening of World Expo, Shanghai, Wu Zhiqiang, as the master planner of the Expo site, has also designed "colorful tour routes" for the 7 World Expo parks, which are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple in an authoritative perspective. It will intermingle the colorful scenes and highlights of the Expo site, so that people can experience the Expo better and enjoy the Expo.