Expo 2020 Dubai UK Pavilion, Es Devlin Poem Building, Architect, UAE Design Project Photos
Expo 2020 Dubai UK Pavilion Design
29 September 2021
Design: Es Devlin
UK Pavilion Designed By Es Devlin Launched At Expo 2020 Dubai A Twenty Metre High Collective Poem
Poem Pavilion

photos by Alin Constantin ; images courtesy of Es Devlin
The UK Pavilion, created by leading artist and designer, Es Devlin, will be launched on 1 October 2021 at Expo 2020 Dubai.
UK Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai
Wednesday 29 September 2021 – Shaped like a giant wooden conical musical instrument, the Poem Pavilion gathers words donated by each visitor and uses an advanced machine learning algorithm to generate the cumulative collective poem which illuminates its twenty-metre diameter facade.
It is the first time a UK pavilion has been designed by a woman since the inception of Expo in 1851. Devlin conceived the building to express Britain as a cultural gathering place, a meeting and melding of ideas and languages from across the globe. Twenty five million visitors are projected to pass through Expo during its six month run, and each will be invited to donate a word at the ?mouthpiece? of the pavilion, then enter within the heart of the instrument where they will be surrounded by donated words glimmering in illuminated Arabic and English, underscored by a soundscape gathered from multicultural choirs across the UK. As visitors emerge through the facade of the pavilion, they will pass through the twe...