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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!

EXPO theme: „Better City, Better Life“

: Pavilion view from northwest

From 1 May to 31 October 2010, the mega-city on the banks of the Yangtse River will play host to the next World Fair, where the theme will be “Better City, Better Life”. Work on Germany’s national pavilion for the event is underway.

This website gives you all of the key facts concerning “balancity”, the city of ideas, where Germany will be 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 is responsible for the construction work. The three firms have established a partnership under civil law (Arbeitsgemeinschaft (ARGE) Deutscher Pavillon Shanghai GbR).

“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 urban spaces.

: An underwater escalator will take visitors to the Harbour

The journey starts at the Harbour and leads through a Garden and a Park, via a Town Planning Office, past the Depot, the Studio and the City Square 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.