The Sustainability PortalExpo 2020 Dubai

Star architect Asif Khan’s surreal entry portals to Expo 2020 are an experience in their own right.

The Sustainability PortalExpo 2020 Dubai

The surreal entry portals that welcome every visitor to Expo 2020 Dubai are larger than life.

And yet, 99 percent of this engineering marvel is made of air. 

Asif KhanExpo 2020 Dubai

Asif Khan

Asif Khan is a research and development led architecture studio who design buildings, landscapes, exhibitions and installations, among other things. 

Detail at the Opportunity PortalExpo 2020 Dubai

Khan’s practice explores how material and social innovations can fundamentally alter the way people experience and shape their environment, realised through rigorously detailed and delivered outputs. 

Visitor at the Opportunity PortalExpo 2020 Dubai

His studio is based in East London, formed in 2007.Khan is currently working on the new Museum of London at West Smithfield, Tselinny Centre of Contemporary Culture in Almaty and the Dubai Expo 2020 public realm.

The Sustainability PortalExpo 2020 Dubai

Recently he designed the award winning UK Pavilion at Astana Expo 2017 and the Hyundai Pavilion at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics.

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