Expo 2020 Dubai Canada Pavilion Building, Architect, UAE Exhibition Design Project Photos
Expo 2020 Dubai Canada Pavilion Exhibition
1 Oct 2021
Architecture: Moriyama & Teshima
Art installation: KANVA
Location: Canada Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Photos by Gerry O?Leary
Canada Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai
KANVA, a Montreal-based firm renowned for meaningful projects extending beyond the boundaries of architectural shapes and forms, is proud to unveil TRACES, a multisensorial, thought-provoking exhibition on the grounds of the Canada Pavilion at World Expo 2020 Dubai. Commissioned by Global Affairs Canada and produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) to populate the Plaza grounds leading up to the pavilion Entry Hall, KANVA has taken a national, yet universal approach to designing a public installation that aligned with both Canada?s participation at the Expo and Expo 2020 Dubai?s themes of Opportunity, Mobility, and Sustainability.
?The concept for TRACES began with the location of the Canada Pavilion in the sustainability section of the Expo grounds, and with the main exhibition being inspired by Canadian landscapes and natural diversity,? explains Rami Bebawi, a KANVA partner and lead architect of the TRACES project. ?We wanted to create something that would emphasize the threats that climate change and global warming pose to those same landscapes, and more specifically, to the species that inhabit them.?

Striking a chord

The project s...