Design revealed for UK pavilion at Osaka Expo

(c) woo architects - ES GLOBAL - World Expo Osaka 2025 - Exterior Day

Source: Woo Architects

Woo Architects’ modular scheme will be delivered under £24m design-and-build contract

Woo Architects’ designs for the UK pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka have been revealed.

ES Global was last year awarded a £24m design-and-build contract for the pavilion for the event, which runs from April to October next year in Japan’s second city. It is focused on a man-made island, called Yumeshima, in Osaka Bay.

ES Global said Woo’s UK pavilion design was based on a modular wide-span grid and would be fully demountable and relocatable.

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