The New China Pavilion: A Red Big Sight
Just saw over at the Shanghaiist that the China Pavilion for the next World Expo is going to look like this:
The structure is named as “the crown of the East” as its most distinct feature is the roof. It will be made of traditional dougong brackets, which have a history of more than 2,000 years.
The dougong style features wooden brackets fixed layer upon layer between the top of a column and a crossbeam. Some important buildings in the Forbidden City and Summer Palace in Beijing feature elaborate dougong-style roofs.
It looks like a pretty cool building design, and I couldn’t help but notice how it has a somewhat similar shape to another gigantic Asian building, Tokyo’s Big Sight:
Upside-Down Pyramids:
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