Space for the basin, the boathouses, the changing rooms and other buildings was obtained by demolishing many of the former pavilions and cutting in half the area taken by the artificial lake and the canals.
Desperately needing some gear from his office, which was just below the water line, the former wicket-keeper donned mask and snorkel, dived off the old pavilion balcony and actually swam some 50m to rescue his valuables.
The complex includes three other pavilions: a former prison from 1867, a beaux-arts building from 1933, and a central pavilion from 1991 that links the two.
SHANGHAI — Anticipation was high before the Oct. 1 National Day holiday in Shanghai as the Chinese art world prepared for the opening of two major institutions, both reusing structures from the 2010 World Expo: The China Art Palace, housed in the former China Pavilion, and the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum, in a former thermal power plant that was the site of the "Pavilion of the Future".
It's a former croquet pavilion that has been turned into a model environmental building by a local architect.
In 2009, he gave the cafe in the former Italian pavilion at the Venice Biennale an aggressively op-art makeover, which won him a Golden Lion award.
(Oh, that second bottle of wine!) As unlikely a setting for a terrific restaurant as a former changing pavilion is a municipal pool.
German artist Tobias Rehberger won the Golden Lion for best artist for his eye-popping retro-chic black-and-white installation Cafeteria, which took shape in the old cafeteria of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (the former Italian Pavilion).
In 1978, it found a permanent home on Île Notre Dame in downtown Montreal, where a decade earlier Expo 67 had taken place, and where the former American pavilion, the geodesic dome designed by R. Buckminster Fuller, still dominates the location.
One is Buckminster Fuller's famed geodesic dome: though the acrylic cover burned off in a fire in 1976, the former United States pavilion is now the Montreal Biosphere, a museum devoted to the environment.
