China: Futuristic yet fruitful
China: Shanghai’s six-month-long Expo is being mounted at vast cost but has drawn a strong array of multinational business exhibitors and is already yielding benefits for the city of 20m
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Shanghai is staging the world’s biggest, most expensive and, the city hopes, most memorable Expo ever. FT.com is at the $55bn ‘Olympics of technology’ reporting on everything from metro escalator etiquette to ‘emotional’ pavilions
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Vision of Shanghai Expo set to redream past
Nearly 160 years of World Expo history will culminate on Saturday as the first visitor relieves themselves in the most enduring of Expo inventions, the public convenience
Shanghai adds pyrotechnic power to Expo
Shanghai stages extravagant display of pyrotechnic power to celebrate the opening of the largest world expo in history, underlining the emergence of China – strong, prosperous and triumphant – from the global financial crisis.
Brands flock to Shanghai Expo
The head of GM in China calls the World Expo opening in Shanghai the ‘Olympics of technology’. He might as well call the $55bn event the Olympics of branding
Determined to be biggest and best
Patti Waldmeir looks at the city’s aspirations on the eve of its showpiece International Exposition
Expo guide: Dip into the future with cars that talk to bicycles
Patti Waldmeir takes a look at the weird and the not so wonderful
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Guest column: A national mindset in a global village
Shanghai Expo 2010 represents a microcosm of the architect’s role in the world while also bringing it into question, writes Edward Denison
Twin pillars of disappointment
China and the US may be at loggerheads over currency issues but they are united on one thing: they have both produced embarrassingly bad national pavilions for the $55bn Shanghai World Expo
Restoring Peace to heart of Shanghai
In typically defiance of both the global economic crisis and a glut of luxury hotel rooms in the city, the restoration of the art deco Peace hotel seeks to balance commerce and heritage
