Expo 2015 pavilions

This article contains the details of the pavilions in Expo 2015. The 2015 World Expo Milan covers more than 2.9 square kilometers and contains more than 70 exposition pavilions. More than 145 countries and 50 international organizations registered to participate in the 2015 Milan Expo.

Theme pavilions
There are 5 theme areas:
 * , which serves as an introduction to the Expo;
 * Future Food District which displays a modern and hyper-technological supermarket
 * Children's park, an area dedicated to kids exploring the Expo theme
 * a Biodiversity Park which includes a garden and two pavilions
 * Arts & Foods: rituals since 1851 exhibition hosted at the satellite venue Triennale di Milano.

In addition the Media Center, which looks exactly like Pavilion Zero, welcomes visitors at the west entrance of the exhibition.

National pavilions
147 of the world's 196 nations were represented at Expo 2015, either in stand-alone pavilions or within larger pavilions.

{|class="wikitable sortable" !Country !Image !Designer !Description !Award(s)

Afghanistan

 * Eating for Longevity, Afghanistan Amazingly Real, a 125-metre section within the Spices cluster. ||

Albania

 * Our Food, Our Story, Our Mystery... within the Bio-Mediterraneum cluster ||

Algeria

 * Mosaico della ninfa cirene, II-III secolo, dal museo di lambèse 02.JPG||||This pavilion's theme was Agricultural Heritage and Technological Development for Food Self-Sufficiency and describes how difficult hunting and obtaining water is in its arid conditions. There was also a food area which served cous cous and other offerings from the national cuisine. ||

Angola
1st prize of the World Association of Agronomists
 * [[Image:Med 2.png]] BIE award 2nd place for theme development (over 2000 metres)

Argentina

 * Expo 2015 - Pavilions - Argentina (16734010664).jpg||||Theme 'Argentina feeds you'. The pavilion was designed to resemble four silos ||

Austria
Exhibitor Magazine best interpretation of theme honorable mention
 * [[File:Austria Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015 (Rho Fiera Milano, Italy), exposition wall - 2015-07-28.JPG|thumb|left|A wall within the Austrian pavilion]]|| Klaus K. Loenhart of terrain:loenhart&mayr ||The pavilion was a lush outdoor forest, giving visitors the opportunity to meander through and enjoy a breath of fresh air.|| Exhibitor Magazine best pavilion honorable mention

BIE award winner for best display (under 2000 metres)



Azerbaijan
Theme 'Protection of Organic Food and Biodiversity for Future Generations' Honorable mention sustainability award for Design and Materials
 * Expo Milano 2015 - Azerbaidjan pavilion.jpg
 * Simmetrico Network
 * [[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best small pavilion winner

Bahrain
BIE award 2nd place for architecture and landscape (over 2000 metres)
 * Recipienti per alimenti del periodo tylos, dal II secolo ac al III dc.JPG||Designed by Anne Holtrop and Anouk Vogel ||Contained 10 connected fruit gardens ||Honorable mention sustainability award for Design and Materials



Bangladesh
Theme 'Sustainability in Rice Production for Better Life Under Changing Climate' Includes information about rice capable of adapting to climate change developed by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute

Belarus

 * Theme: The Wheel of Life ||

Belgium
Honorable mention sustainability award for Design and Materials
 * Designed by Patrick Genard in collaboration with Marc Belderbos, construction by Besix - Vanhout ||||Exhibitor Magazine best exhibit honorable mention for The Cave

Benin

 * Theme: At the Heart of Benin's Cuisine, Nutrition for a Life Bursting with Energy ||

Bolivia

 * Theme: Quinoa, a Future Sown Thousands of Years Ago ||

Brazil

 * Studio Arthur Casas||||Exhibitor Magazine best 'Elements & Detail' honorable mention for The Net

Brunei

 * Theme Science and Technology for Food Safety, Security and Quality. Part of the spices cluster ||

Burundi

 * Theme A Discovery of the Five Senses: Burundi, part of the coffee cluster ||

Chile

 * Undurraga Devés Arquitectos||The pavilion is a wooden box: a suspended structure with a large wooden lintel enclosed by a frame of crossed beams and supported by four concrete pillars that create an intermediate space and a clear horizon.||[[Image:Med 2.png]] BIE award 2nd place for architecture and landscape (under 2000 metres)

China
BIE award 3rd place for architecture and landscape (over 2000 metres)
 * Expo Milano 2015, Pavilion of China.jpg||Studio Link-Arc||The building's predominant feature is its complex roof form. From the front it appears to be a series of curves, while at the back it forms a row of rectilinear shapes.||Exhibitor Magazine' best exterior design honorable mention

Colombia

 * Expo2015Milano-ColombiPavilion.JPG||Theme Concept: Mauricio Cárdenas, Studio Cárdenas; Architecture Concept: Manuel Villa Arquitectos; Architectural Design: Mauricio Cárdenas, Studio Cárdenas ||The Colombia Pavilion theme was "Naturally Sustainable", a concept that was experienced throughout the exhibition of the five thermal floors the country has: hot, temperate, cold, moorland and perennial snow. The possibility of having a stable temperature during 365 days, allows the country to be a constant food producer, a breadbasket of the world. The archietecture of the pavilion was inspired in Colombia's geography having 4 modules of different height and extension. ||Colombia Pavilion received second place in the category "Best heritage for future generations" special prize given by the World Association of Agronomists at the Class Expo Pavilion Heritage Award.

Czech Republic

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Czech Rep.jpg||Chybík + Kristof ||||[[Image:Med 3.png]] BIE award 3rd place for architecture and landscape (under 2000 metres)

Dominican Republic

 * Theme: Empowering Family Farmers so They Can Feed Themselves, Their Communities, and the World and part of the coffee cluster. The pavilion was run by the Laboratorio de Arquitectura Dominicana (LAD)

Egypt

 * Theme EGYPT, the Never Ending Story ||

Estonia

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Estonia.jpg||Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid ||Theme Gallery of
 * [[Image:Med 3.png]] BIE award 3rd place for best display (under 2000 metres)

France
BIE award winner for architecture and landscape (over 2000 metres)
 * XTU Architects||||Exhibitor Magazine editor's choice honorable mention

Germany

 * German Pavilion Membrane Trees.JPG[[Image:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Germany.jpg|thumb|left|German pavilion]]||Schmidhuber ||The German pavilion attempted to reproduce the landscape of the typical rural areas of its country; stylized trees emerged from the ground alongside the external exhibition area. The largest pavilion at Expo 2015
 * [[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best pavilion winner

Exhibitor Magazine best activity/interactive winner for Seed Boards

Exhibitor Magazine best use of technology honorable mention for Photovoltaic Cells

BIE award winner for theme development (over 2000 metres)



Guatemala

 * Theme The Heart of the Mayan World. Part of the coffee cluster. ||

Hungary

 * Milan Expo (19153001676).jpg|| Attila Ertsey and Herczeg Ágnes Sándor Sárkány ||Theme From The Purest Sources ||

India

 * India participated via the Basmati pavilion in the rice cluster ||

Indonesia

 * Theme The stage of the world ||

Iran

 * [[Image:Med 2.png]] BIE award 2nd place for best display (under 2000 metres)

Ireland

 * [[Image:Med 3.png]] BIE award 3rd place for theme development (under 2000 metres)

Israel
Honorable mention sustainability award for Design and Materials
 * Expo 2015 - Pavilions - Israel (16754245334).jpgIsrael Pavilion of Expo 2015 162617.jpg || David Knafo||The Israeli pavilion introduced the technological agriculture in Israel, was called "Fields of Tomorrow", and its presenter was Israeli Moran Atias||Exhibitor Magazine best exterior design honorable mention

Italy

 * Nemesi & Partners||||

Japan

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Japan.jpg
 * Hakuhodo Design Inc.
 * The pavilions symbol was 6 iwaibashi (chopsticks with two thin ends) arranged to form an 'E'

The pavilion was designed to represent a 'bowl of diversity' and constructed with three-dimensional wooden grid made by combining traditional Japanese wooden framework with recent understanding of compressive strain BIE award winner for best installation (over 2000 metres)
 * [[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best presentation winner for Harmony

Kazakhstan
Exhibitor Magazine editor's choice winner BIE award 3rd place for theme development (over 2000 metres)
 * Facts and Fiction GmbH ||||Exhibitor Magazine best activity/interactive honorable mention for Interactive Floor Relief

Kuwait
Exhibitor Magazine people's choice honorable mention
 * Exhibitor Magazine best 'Elements & Detail' honorable mention for Dhow Sails

Lebanon

 * Theme: Cuisine: the Lebanese Art & Soul, part of the Bio-Mediterraneum cluster. ||

Lithuania

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Lituania.jpg||||Theme: Well of Knowledge: Experienced Future ||

Malaysia

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Malaysia.jpg||||Theme Towards a Sustainable Food Ecosystem The pavilion comprises 4 structures designed to resemble seeds, and made is from glued laminated timber ||

Mexico
Exhibitor Magazine editor's choice honorable mention BIE award 2nd place for theme development (under 2000 metres)
 * Expo Milano 2015 - Mexico.jpg||Francisco Lopez Guerra||The pavilion is a volume wrapped by structures that resemble the dried corn husks||Exhibitor Magazine best use of technology honorable mention for Bar Code Stickers

Monaco

 * [[File:Aquarium of the jellyfish in the pavilion Principality of Monaco, Expo Milano 2015. 2015-07-28.JPG|thumb|left|Jellyfish aquarium in the Monaco pavilion]]||Enrico Pollino was the architect and Facts and Fiction designed the space.||After Expo 2015 the pavilion was intended to be dismantled and re-erected in Burkina Faso as a Red Cross building ||[[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best interpretation of theme honorable mention

Morocco
2nd or 3rd prize of the World Association of Agronomists

Nepal

 * Implementing Expert Group (IEG) (who also designed Nepal's pavilions at the 1988, 1990, 2000 and 2010 expos ||Theme Food security and sustainable development ||

Netherlands

 * Totems Amsterdam||The pavilion is a sort of Luna Park composed of a sequence of spaces of different sizes and colours, each one able to host exhibitions and events in an open, free-flowing arrangement.||Award for "Less expensive and most commercial pavilion"

Poland

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Poland.jpg||Piotr Musiałowski ||||

Qatar
Exhibitor Magazine people's choice winner
 * Exhibitor Magazine best activity/interactive honorable mention for Interactive Food Table

Russia

 * Speech Architecture||||[[Image:Med 3.png]] BIE award 3rd place for best installation (over 2000 metres)



Slovakia

 * [[Image:Expo Milano 2015 - Pavilion of Slovakia.jpg|thumb|Slovakia pavilion|left]]
 * Karol Kállay ||Slovakia. Recharge yourself ||

Slovenia

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Slovenia.jpg
 * SoNo Arhitekti ||Theme I feel SLOVENIA. Green, active and healthy ||

South Korea
or for best installation (over 2000 metres)
 * Expo 2015 - Pavilions - South Korea (17728651071).jpg
 * Archiban ||Theme Hansik, Food for the Future:You are What You Eat. The pavilion is inspired by traditional Korean pottery, being built in the form of an enormous "Moon Jar"
 * [[Image:Med 2.png]] BIE silver award for exhibition design

Spain

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Spain.jpg|||Designed by b720 - Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos||||

Switzerland
Exhibitor Magazine best interpretation of theme winner
 * Swiss pavilion expo2015.jpg||Netwerch||||Exhibitor Magazine best exhibit honorable mention for San Gottardo — Acqua per l'Europa



Thailand

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Thailand entrance.jpg||||||

Turkey

 * The pavilion consisted of 3 main divisions of indoor, semi-outdoor and outdoor venues on a total area of 4.170-square-meter, which includes 7 semi-outdoor distinct chambers||

United Arab Emirates
Exhibitor best exterior design winner *Exhibitor Magazine people's choice honorable mention
 * Foster and Partners |||After Expo 2015 the pavilion is to be demounted and reerected in Masdar City ||Exhibitor Magazine best pavilion honorable mention

United Kingdom
International Jury prize BIE award winner for architecture and landscape (under 2000 metres)
 * Expo 2015 - Pavilions - UK (17972272195).jpg||Wolfgang Buttress||The pavilion is called "The Hive"||[[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best exhibit winner for The Hive



United States

 * Expo 2015 - Pavilions - USA (17406349315).jpg||Designed by Biber Architects||The pavilion is a multi-level building which includes a vertical farm||[[Image:Med 1.png]] Exhibitor Magazine best 'Elements & Detail' winner for ''Vertical Farm'

Vatican City

 * Expo2015-HolySee-Pavilion.jpg||Quattro Associati||Theme Not by Bread Alone. At the Lord's Table with all Mankind ||[[Image:Med 1.png]] BIE award winner for theme development (under 2000 metres)



Vietnam

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Vietnam.jpg||Vo Trong Nghia||Theme Water and Lotus ||
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Clusters
Expo 2015 was the first universal expo at which countries that didn't self-build were grouped by theme or supply chain rather than geography into one of nine clusters.

{|class="wikitable sortable" !Cluster !Image !Designer !Theme !Participants

Arid zones

 * Expo2015Milano-AridZonesCluster.jpg||||Agriculture and Nutrition in Arid Zones (Supply chain) || Djibouti, Eritrea, Jordan, Mauritania, Mali, Palestine, Senegal, Somalia and the UN

Bio-Mediterraneum

 * Expo2015Milano-Bio-MediterraneumCluster.jpg||||Bio-Mediterraneum - Health, Beauty and Harmony (Theme) ||

Cereals and Tubers

 * Expo 2015 Milano - Cereals and tubers cluster.jpg||||Cereals and Tubers – Old and New Crops (Supply chain) ||

Cocoa and Chocolate

 * Fabrizio Leoni, Mauricio Cardenas, and Cesare Ventura for the concept and exhibition layout ||Cocao and Chocolate – the Food of Gods (Supply chain) ||Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Gabon, Ghana, São Tomé and Príncipe and the UN

Coffee

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Cluster coffee.jpg||||Coffee - the Engine of Ideas (Supply chain) ||

Fruits and Legumes

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Cluster fruits and vegetables.jpg||||Fruits and Legumes (Supply chain) ||

Islands, Sea, and Food

 * Islands, Sea, and Food (Theme) ||

Rice

 * Expo Milano 2015 - Cluster rice.jpg||Agnese Rebaglio, Davide Crippa, Barbara Di Prete and Francesco Tosi ||Abundance and Security (Supply chain) ||Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, the Basmati Pavilion and a UN display

Spices

 * [[Image:Expo2015Milano-SpicesCluster.jpg|thumb|Spices cluster|left]]||The World of Spices (Supply chain) ||
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Corporate pavilions
The Milan World Expo had a number of corporate pavilions. {|class="wikitable sortable" !Company !Image !Designer !Description

Love It - Copagri

 * EMBT||

OVS and Coin Excelsior Pavilions

 * Zito+Pedron Architects||The pavilions designed by Marco Zito and Alessandro Pedron consist of two semi-identical "L" rotated by 180° and placed next to each other, almost interlocking. The metal façades are made of brushed aluminum and etched corten sheets. It serves as the official gift shop for the Expo.

Slow Food Pavilion

 * Herzog & De Meuron||

Vanke

 * Daniel Libeskind||

Waterstone - Intesa Sanpaolo Pavilion

 * aMDL||

Intesa Sanpaolo Bancomat Pavilion

 * D2U||
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Other pavilions
Almost 50 international organisations participanted in the expo, some had their own pavilions, and some were shared.

{|class="wikitable sortable" !Organisation !Image !Notes

Caritas

 * Expo2015Milano-CaritasPavilion.jpg           || Caritas's pavilion was designed by Piuarch consisted of stacked white boxes

Don Bosco

 * || At the end of the expo the pavilion was intended to be dismantled then transported to Ukraine to continue Don Bosco's work

Duomo factory

 * Expo2015Milano-PadiglioneDuomo.jpg           || A pavilion for the Venerable Factory of the Duomo of Milan

EU

 * Expo 2015 Milano - EU Pavilion.jpg           || Received an honorable mention for its presentation The Golden Ear,

Save the Children

 * Expo 2015 - Save the Children pavillon.jpg   || Save the Children

UN

 * Expo2015Milano-UN-kiosk.JPG           ||

WAA-CONAF

 * Expo2015.jpg           ||  A pavilion designed by Enzo Eusebi shared by World Association of Agronomists and CONAF
 * }