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Koelnmesse International GmbH
Messeplatz 1
D-50679 Köln

Tel: +49 221 821 0
Fax: +49 221 821 3013
Email: expo2010-germany@koelnmesse.de

Welcome to the official website of the German Pavilion at EXPO 2010 Shanghai China!

Impressions

EXPO theme: „Better City, Better Life“

: North-west view of the German Pavilion

From 1 May to 31 October 2010, the mega-city on the banks of the Yangtse River plays host to the World Fair, where the theme is “Better City, Better Life”. Germany is participating with a self-built pavilion.

This website gives you all of the key facts concerning “balancity”, the city in balance, where Germany is showcased at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. In January 2007, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, which is in charge of the pavilion, commissioned Koelnmesse International GmbH to organise and manage the German EXPO contribution.

The exhibition was designed by the creatives at Milla und Partner of Stuttgart, the architecture by Schmidhuber + Kaindl of Munich, and NUSSLI (Germany) GmbH from Roth near Nuremberg was responsible for the construction work. The three firms have established a partnership under civil law (Arbeitsgemeinschaft (ARGE) Deutscher Pavillon Shanghai GbR).

NEW!!! NOW YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE MUSIC OF OUR ENERGY SOURCE HERE:

!!! MUSIC OF THE ENERGY SOURCE !!!

: Accompanied by a music piece specially composed for the show, the energy sphere inspires the visitors of balancity.

Yanyan and Jens

accompanies you on your virtual way through balancity

“balancity” – a city in balance

The German Pavilion has been christened “balancity” – a newly coined word signifying a city in balance. Visitors to balancity will embark on a journey through a city of ideas, moving around as they would in a real city – on foot, moving walkways and escalators – through thematic areas representing different themes for a better life in a better city.

The journey starts at the Harbour and leads through a Town Planning Office, a Garden, past the Depot and the Factory via a Park, the City Square and the Forum to the "Energy Source", the city’s power plant.

A city can be a good place to live – if it provides a balance between renewal and preservation, innovation and tradition, urbanity and nature, community and individual development and work and leisure. That’s the message of the German Pavilion.