Comments on: Polish pavilion for Shanghai Expo 2010

By: Agata

Agata — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:09:13 +0000

No super, i to “wycinanka” z moich stron (Kołbiel)

By: martin

martin — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:59:29 +0000

Have you seen the polish pavilion for the aichi expo 2005???? It won some prize for the most beautiful pavilion on the expo )) i think this one relates to the one designed by ingarden and exy architect … google it

By: texas daughter

texas daughter — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:19:47 +0000

Wow. Not being so jaded about things Polish, I like it. If the outside looks like folk art then make the inside reflect the othe parts of Polish culture you wish to show the world. Remember the world knows very little about Poland, show them all sides of this wonderful country.

By: shinz

shinz — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:45:43 +0000

Very typical contemporary sculpture-look-a-like. Does it have more connection to Polish other than the folk prints with three Polish name on the project?

By: Pesto

Pesto — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:10:49 +0000

I’m pretty sure that this pavilion won’t have the same illusion in final, like on visualization. This model shows (not fresh) concept hard to perform in reality… We’ll see the final in 2 years.

By: Evie

Evie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:09:19 +0000

Czesuaf i think your wrong. The Pavillion in my opinion presents a high quality piece of architecture. Comparing to some crap stuff that have been seen for last few years in Poland (with few exeptions), we can be quite proud of what’s going to be shown in Shanghai. For people from abroad, check out some new designs in polish city – Wroclaw. I’ve seen some good stuff recently from there, but can’t remeber name of architects…Maybe somone will help?

By: adjSpcs

adjSpcs — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:18:58 +0000

I think this is an interesting project. Not particularly novel, but contemporary none the less. The issue of it calling back to the folk is not such a big deal to me- the project explores issues of excess and quite frankly, the unattractive- which is quite interesting. Scale of patterning is a bit out of whack though…

By: kurosheep

kurosheep — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:49:18 +0000

This is indeed depressing stuff. It is like Philippe Starck in the 80’s trying to design buildings in Tokyo!

By: roadkill

roadkill — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:23:09 +0000

give me a the option to watch paint dry and i will get more excited!

By: wojtek

wojtek — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:18:00 +0000

as much as i like what centrala does in terms of “activism” and promotion of architecture the studio itself has yet to produce anything worth noting. that said, mentioning them in respected design blog kinda sabotages the chance to really show whats going on in our local architecture/design. Im just a fan, not architect or designer, but im sure you pros can provide some links to quality stuff because there IS some.

I agree that putting yet another folk refence in architectural context seems a bit cheap and played out.It has been done with fashion, rugs etc. but the pavillon itself looks quite neat.