DESIGN: Shifa Zghoul and Ahmad Jubra FABRICATION: Daiko Nitten Jordan may be small, but its impact on the world is huge. It's home to several Dead Sea Scroll discoveries, and archaeologists found there the oldest-known evidence of bread-baking — about 14,000 years old, predating by far the arrival of agriculture. In the same way, the Jordan pavilion at Expo 2025 measured a modest 300 square meters but offered an experience rivaling those that were more than 10 times its size

DESIGN/FABRICATION: TARHIV Architecture & Urbanism Ltd. Almost every pavilion at every World Expo, from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, had one thing in common: thermostats locked at a constant temperature. Croatia turned this standard inside out and upside down in a first-of-its-kind pavilion called “Climadiversity” that exported its weather 5,800 miles to Japan. To call attention to the way climate has shaped human culture and the way human culture has shaped climate, the Balkan co

DESIGN/FABRICATION: Bickerstaff.734 FABRICATION: Bickerstaff.734 Oscar Wilde once defined a cynic as a “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Yet while Russia tries to reduce Ukraine to smoke and rubble, its brutal attacks haven't made a dent in the resilient country's core values — a feat captured in the confines of its small space at Expo 2025. Under the provocative theme “Not for Sale,” Ukraine's pavilion was designed in the guise of a store wh

DESIGN: Atelier Brückner FABRICATION: NUSSLI Group ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: Medienprojekt p2, KLEE Technisches Planungsbüro, Tamschick Media+Space Rooted in its cultural heritage and reinterpreted in timber, brick and clay, the Uzbekistan Pavilion expressed the Expo theme — “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” — through a deep-focused lens of sustainability. The pavilion's exterior walls combined clay from Awajishima island and reclaimed bricks from demolished buildings i