DESIGN: Atelier Brückner FABRICATION: NUSSLI Group ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: Medienprojekt p2, KLEE Technisches Planungsbüro, Tamschick Media+Space Rooted in its cultural heritage and reinterpreted in timber, brick and clay, the Uzbekistan Pavilion expressed the Expo theme — “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” — through a deep-focused lens of sustainability. The pavilion's exterior walls combined clay from Awajishima island and reclaimed bricks from demolished buildings i

DESIGN: BWM Designers and Architects FABRICATION: NUSSLI Group ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: Kling Klang Klong, Mozarteum Salzburg and Elisabeth Gutjahr, Grosse8, Zone Media, Werkraum Ingenieure ZT GmbH, Graf Holztechnik, Shinohara, Dream Design Factory, Bewunder After Johann Strauss adapted “The Blue Danube” into a completely orchestral version for the 1867 World Expo in Paris, it became the Austrian composer's most beloved work and helped earn him the title of the “waltz king.”

DESIGN/FABRICATION: Lava, NUSSLI Group, insglück Gesellschaft für Markeninszenierung mbH (Content Concept and Exhibition Design) A stylized desert landscape of light, sound, scent, and touch turned Kuwait's pavilion into a children's park that invited visitors of all ages to explore hands-on. At Animals of Kuwait, animated maps revealed the country's most vibrant habitats, while in the Archaeological Sandbox, visitors followed projected desert creatures to uncover artifacts t

DESIGN: Tellart, RAU Architects FABRICATION: Tellart ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: Tellart, RAU Architects, DGMR, Asanuma A thousand invisible threads tie us to other human beings, but rarely do we truly notice how our fates are knitted together. Taking place inside the Netherlands pavilion's central sphere, the film "A New Dawn" used sweeping 360-degree visuals inside the dome to critique humanity's abuse of its diminishing resources. Submerging viewers in stark, almost dystopian