Techno palace

Source: J M Richards / Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Library Photographs Collection

Asia’s first Expo, held in Osaka in 1970, was a paean to technological innovation with an orgiastic riot of pavilions assailing visitors visually and aurally.

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