The Sustainability PortalExpo 2020 Dubai
Understanding Expo 2020 Dubai
For 170 years, World Expos have provided a platform to showcase the greatest innovations that have shaped the world we live in today.
Interior view of Vision PavilionExpo 2020 Dubai
Expo 2020 Dubai continued that tradition with the latest technology from around the globe.
Astronaut on display at Alif - The Mobility PavilionExpo 2020 Dubai
Expo 2020 Dubai is the first Expo held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and as such it is considered as one of the most important in exhibition history.
Interior view of Terra - The Sustainability PavilionExpo 2020 Dubai
The exhibit was inspired by understanding that we all have the power to build a better world and shape the future. What makes Expo 2020 Dubai unique and is the way it is "Connecting Minds and Creating the Future" through sustainability, mobility and opportunity.
Terra - The sustainability pavilion
The future of Earth hangs in the balance and there’s no planet B. Will you be an agent of change and help speed up the pace of protecting and preserving the only world we’ve got?
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Alif - The mobility pavilion
Create connections and explore horizons which are at the core of human progress, and build a harmonious, global society where information, ideas and goods are exchanged faster than ever before.
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Mission Possible - The opportunity pavilion
There’s a ripple effect in everything we do. Even one person can be the key to unlocking eight billion opportunities that can help individuals and communities create a better tomorrow, today. It’s time to unleash the potential within and be an agent of change.
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Al Wasl Plaza
Long ago, travellers referred to Dubai as Al Wasl, or “the connection” – a name that reflects the area’s heritage as a meeting point.
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Calligraphy benches
The collaboration between celebrated architect Asif Khan and innovative Arabic typographer Lara Captan turns crowdsourced words into usable works of art.
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Sabeel FountainExpo 2020 Dubai
The Sabeel Fountains
The Sabeel Fountains, a series of almost 40 aesthetically eye-catching drinking fountains.
Sabeel Fountain in the Jubilee Park_Large Image_m1128Expo 2020 Dubai
Designed to both refresh and wow visitors to the world’s biggest cultural gathering.
Sabeel Fountain by Al Wasl_Large Image_m8330Expo 2020 Dubai
They can be found across the public spaces of the Expo 2020 site.
Eiffel Tower Stairs at Al ForsanExpo 2020 Dubai
Eiffel tower stairs
These stairs you see were once connected to the second and third floors of the Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the 1889 exposition in Paris.
Few remember today that for years the famed spire’s fate was a shaky one. In the beginning, the Eiffel Tower was scorned by the intelligentsia as an “odious column of bolted metal.” Originally slated to be dismantled in 1909, just two decades after its construction, the Eiffel Tower eventually inspired more devotion than disdain from other contemporaries with a wider vision, like Janat Dores, whose Paris teahouse served its aromatic brews at the Eiffel Tower’s opening in 1889.
Nearly 150 years old now, Janat Paris brings to Expo 2020 this segment of the tower’s original staircase. Designed spirally to suggest the “rising infinity of life,” the coiled flight of steps is dedicated to Mohammad Saleh Al Gurga, the author, poet, and philosopher, a “traveling encyclopaedia” of Emirati culture and history who aspired to lift the people of the UAE to the same soaring heights as the Eiffel Tower itself.
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