The Pavilion Wars

The upcoming World's Fair should offer the chance to build a showpiece U.S. pavilion. But thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuverings and State Department incompetence, we may end up with a Chinese-funded pavilion—or no pavilion at all

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Third guy enters the fray for control of the U.S. pavilion

The battle to bring the U.S. pavilion to the World Expo in Shanghai seems to just get more complicated as the days count down. According to China Daily, a Chinese-American oil industry executive called James I.C. Chiang is now planning his own vision of what the pavilion should look like...


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Architecture of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai

The grand tradition of World Expos may seem a little quaint to Americans--evoking 1950s era images of flying cars and robot butlers. But the Expos still live, and the upcoming Expo 2010 in Shanghai, promises to be worthwhile since the city is using the event to anoint itself as the design capital of the new millennium.

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Clinton says take me to the fair!

Supporters of an United States pavilion at the upcoming Shanghai world's fair in 2010 have been looking to the Obama administration for some help to boost the effort. Eyes have turned to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and newly anointed Commerce Secretary, former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, as possible saviors of the effort.

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Expo-sing Shanghai

Fresh off the Beijing Olympics, China is showing off with Expo 2010 in Shanghai

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G20 and the Shanghai World Expo

How many Americans and other G20 attendees know about the Shanghai 2010 World Expo? Americans don't even have a U.S. pavilion approved. This omission is a great problem for the U.S. and shows how potentially out of touch we appear to other G20 countries.

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National Geographic to promote Yeosu Expo

The organizing committee for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea has joined with the National Geographic Channel in a deal to promote the international event, which hopes to draw more than 8 million visitors from around the world.

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Shanghai Sweats as U.S. Races Clock to Fund World Expo Pavilion

Eight months after Beijing hosted history’s most-watched Olympics, Shanghai is finding next year’s World Expo a very different experience as the U.S. delegation struggles to raise $61 million to participate. 

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Can Locke save the world's fair?

Eyes turn to new Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. expo boosters look for someone to prevent China's "humiliation" over America's possible no-show at Shanghai's Expo 2010.

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World's Fair, a last gasp for America

Next month - April 24 to be exact - will mark the 45th anniversary of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The date will probably pass without fanfare, but I bring it up only because I recently stumbled upon a tattered artifact from the fair, the official 312-page guide, which originally sold for $1.

It made me think about where we are and where we've been as a country

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All the world's a fair: Illinois couple keeps Expo spirit alive

The popular 1944 movie “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, portrayed the world’s fair of yesteryear as an exciting and dressy extravaganza, filled with romance and intrigue. People traveled for miles by train and automobile to see all the new and fascinating discoveries exhibited at these highly anticipated events.

This is the image of a world’s fair that Bob and Sherri Hous of Danville want to recreate through their extensive collection of world’s fair items.

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Expo to Help China Overcome Crisis

The World Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai can help China and the world ride through the global financial crisis, said a Chinese political advisor in Beijing on Sunday.

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Italy using Milan 2015 to stimulate the economy

Italy's government has allocated €17.8 billion ($22.53 billion) to public building projects as part of its efforts to stimulate the country's ailing economy.

The funding approved Friday will go into roads, railways, schools and prisons. Other projects include money for Milan's 2015 Expo.

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3M to sponsor the US Pavilion in Shanghai

During the Shanghai World Expo, 3M will put on display in the US Pavilion its environmentally-friendly products that are in line with sustainable development.

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Expo organizers work to ensure US interests will build pavilion

LOCAL officials need to step up efforts to achieve a US presence at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo as the deadline for signing an exhibition contract is a little more than a month away, according to Hong Hao, director of the event's coordination bureau.

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Ticketmaster to sell Expo 2010 tickets in the US

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U.S. Pavilion at Shanghai Expo to break ground on schedule (video)

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Virtual 2010 Expo to be online

To attract greater attention and extend its influence, the 2010 Expo Shanghai will build a wider cooperation with the Internet...

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U.S. Pavilion at Shanghai Expo to break ground on schedule

Officials of the U.S. Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010 said here Friday that they were confident that the pavilion would break ground on schedule despite the difficulties in raising funds for the project.

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Shanghai Expo tickets on sale

Tickets for the World Expo 2010 will go on sale for groups on March 27 and for the public on July 1.

The basic ticket price will be 160 yuan (22.40 U.S. dollars). Foreigners will be able to buy tickets from overseas outlets authorized by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination.

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Good prognosis for US pavilion at Shanghai 2010

Plans for realizing a US pavilion at the upcoming world expo in Shanghai, which will run from 1 May to 31 Oct 2010, appear to be on track and the nonprofit group led by Nick Winslow and Ellen Eliasoph is heading into the design development phase, with detailed estimates in place and major sponsorship announcements imminent.

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The U.S. Can't Host a World Expo, and Fans Say That's No Fair

For the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France produced an engineering marvel, the Eiffel Tower. Not to be outdone, America shot back with Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition and the debut of the Ferris wheel. Attendance at the world's fair topped one-third of the U.S. population.

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Edmonton putting the Expo bid on the back burner

The province is nowhere near promising dollars to back Edmonton's bid for the 2017 World's Fair, says Culture and Community Spirit Minister Lindsay Blackett.

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Eco-friendly vehicles for Expo 2010

OVER 1,000 environmentally friendly buses and cars will be used to transport visitors in and around the Expo zone during the 2010 World Expo.

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Money low, so US may skip 2010 Shanghai Expo

Canada will have its Cirque du Soleil. France will showcase its cuisine. The United States may be a no-show.

Amid the worst recession in decades, U.S. organizers are struggling to raise $61 million for a national pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, expected to be the biggest ever.

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