9/5/2023 0 Comments Dubai expo 2021 highlights![]() The mobility building, by Foster and Partners, contains what the Expo is calling the biggest passenger elevator in the world. Each is represented by a massive theme pavilion. The relative lack of options in Dubai seems ironic because mobility is one of the three themes of the Expo (the others are opportunity and sustainability). By contrast, the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair offered half a dozen ways to get around, including a monorail overhead and gondolas above the monorail, and several kinds of trams at grade. Buses will move around the perimeter of the Expo, and a limited number of individual golf carts, with drivers, can be booked in advance. Mostly, there are miles of paths, shaded by canopies of photovoltaic fabric. ![]() But once visitors have parked and walked through Khan’s vast portals, transportation options will be limited. The Expo itself, master planned by HOK with Populous and Arup, covers nearly 1,100 acres, not counting the adjacent parking lots for 26,000 cars. Reached by phone in Chicago, partner Gordon Gill said those buildings didn’t bother him, “since we designed them.” And he is sure the dome and the five buildings will remain standing after the fair, since his firm also created the plan for using the site as an innovation district after the Expo closes at the end of March 2022.
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