Beijing Pavilion

Date: 2012.05.07 | Category: China's Joint Pavilion | Tags: asia,Bird's Nest,China,Expo,Expo 2010 Maps,Olympics,SHANGHAI,Water Cube

Beijing Pavilion

With actors attired in palace garb and Olympic sportswear, Beijing will hold a dress parade around the Beijing Pavilion Expo site during the Beijing Week, from May 4 to 8. Charming Beijing will be represented by dramatic changes instead of single and static forms. Around 200 actors will dress in different styles of clothes that can be seen at 16 famous venues of the city, including the Forbidden City and the Beijing National Stadium, or Bird’s Nest and Water Cube. An opening ceremony for the Beijing Week in front of the joint provincial pavilion on the morning of May 4 will be “as exciting as the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. During that week, Beijing craftsmen will perform folk arts, including paper-cutting and clay sculpture, around the Expo site. Meanwhile, people will appreciate the film named “Charming Capital” by director Zhang Yimou, introducing Beijing’s attractions and showing the competitive strength of Beijing.

Eighty large LED panels will transform the Beijing Pavilion structure into four iconic city buildings – the Temple of Heaven, the National Aquatics Center, better known as the Water Cube, the Bird’s Nest, and National Grand Theater. Each transformation takes about 10 seconds, designers revealed yesterday. Chinese director Zhang Yimou has finished filming a five-minute movie to be played in the Beijing Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, a senior official of the Expo organizer said yesterday as construction and outfitting finished in the pavilion.

The film, about a foreign tourist’s one-day visit to Beijing, is in its final edit and will be sent to a 50-seat theater in the pavilion for testing early next week, said Xu Yuwei, vice chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Beijing Sub-Council. The movie will highlight many different sounds that the traveler hears in the city, including Beijing accents and Peking Opera. It will be played every 12 minutes. The 600-square-meter pavilion in the joint-provincial building will showcase the city’s hosting of 2008 Beijing Olympics and the ceremony at the 60th anniversary of People’s Republic of China last October through videos and exhibits with the theme “Charming Capital.

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Beijing Pavilion Exterior with a Red Glow (Trevor Patt)

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Close up of the Beijing Olympic Characters (Orchidius)

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Beijing Pavilion

Originally posted 2010-08-31 06:52:27.

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