The Danish pavilion, Expo 2010 Shanghai

The project design for the Danish pavilion consists of 10 white towers or cells reaching for the sky and – at the top – merging into one vibrant entity – a metaphorical tale about a better city where buildings and urban life merge into one sustainable, living organism.

The pavilion interprets the theme of a better city by juxtaposing a number of vital cells representing Danish sustainable solution models. These elements combine into a wonderful and inspiring organism: an urban community inviting you to work, live, move, think, express yourself, act and experience. All essential aspects of enabling and maintaining balanced city living.

This is what the committee of judges said about the project:
‘This is probably the project which most radically reflects the temporary nature of the pavilion […] With its interesting and relevant elements it focuses clearly on the theme of a better city […] through a different and sophisticated idiom, unlikely to be seen in any other country’s pavilion.'