John Kormeling
Happy Street
2010 Shanghai World Expo Exhibition
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Dutch Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010
The dutch pavilion for shanghai expo 2010 has been designed by architect John Kormeling. The 5,000-square-meter structure called ‘Happy Street’, consists of twenty-six small houses elevated along the expo’s main pedestrian strip that curves in a figure eight – a lucky number in china. Happy Street is mixed with different types of buildings like a house, a shop, a factory, an office, a farm, a petrol station, a sport field, a garage, forms the condition for a social life. The main building is a yellow colored tulip – a symbol of the netherlands.
Each house explore themes such as energy, water, space and other urban issues. In response to the chinese expo theme ‘better city, better life’ the sub-themes of the design include: – urban cultural diversity – urban economic growth and prosperity – innovation in science and technology in urban contexts – re-modelling urban communities.
Artist: John Kormeling
(born in 1951, in Amsterdam, Netherlands) lives and works in Eindhoven (NL).
John Körmeling had solo exhibitions at De Pont, Tilburg (NL) and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL). In 2004, Körmeling had a major solo exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto (CA), for which the notorious drive-in wheel was re-installed.
Recently John Körmeling designed the Dutch Pavillion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai (CN).
Known as ‘Happy Street’, the pavilion consists of 26 elevated small buildings, designed after various Dutch architectural styles, along a main pedestrian strip that curves in a figure eight. Each house is a mini pavilion in itself, exploring themes such as energy, water, space and other urban issues to achieve a ‘Better city, Better live’.
Curator: Nicolaus Schafhausen
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