New Zealand Pavilion
- City Weekend
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A team of award-winning designers, including Story Inc, Plan 9, the music composer for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and Kim Jarrett, landscape designer for King Kong, drew inspiration from a Maori (an indigenous Polynesian culture) creation story in constructing this pavilion. A tour of the wedge-shaped building takes the visitor through the three parts similar to a three act play: the plaza, the interior and the rooftop garden, which feature screen towers, soundtracks and garden greenery. At the center of the exhibition sits a 1.8-ton pounamu (jade) boulder, a stone revered both by Chinese and Maori societies, symbolic of two cultures coming together.
This is a nice walk on the little rootfloor nature garden, one of the hosting staff explained to me that the big tree (a reproduction, not a real one) : pohutukawa tree can have red flowers and it can be called a Christmas tree...