{"id":173427,"date":"2023-10-04T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/construction-begins-on-expo-2025-osaka-masterplan-by-sou-fujimoto"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T13:23:27","slug":"construction-begins-on-expo-2025-osaka-masterplan-by-sou-fujimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/construction-begins-on-expo-2025-osaka-masterplan-by-sou-fujimoto","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on Expo 2025 Osaka masterplan by Sou Fujimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/construction-begins-on-expo-2025-osaka-masterplan-by-sou-fujimoto2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A circular wooden structure with a diameter of 700 metres is under construction off the coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/japan\">Japan<\/a> as part of architect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/sou-fujimoto\/\">Sou Fujimoto<\/a>\u2019s masterplan for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/osaka-expo-2025\/\">Expo 2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2023\/05\/31\/shigeru-ban-domed-expo-2025-osaka-pavilion\/\">Osaka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fujimoto is designing the 60,000-square-metre structure to encircle the site of the upcoming World Expo, which will be located on the artificial island Yumeshima in Osaka Bay.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expo2025.or.jp\/en\/\">Expo 2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expo2025.or.jp\/en\/\">Osaka<\/a> organisers, the structure is intended to serve as a symbol of \u201cone sky\u201d and create a \u201cconnection\u201d between the participating countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A circular wooden structure with a diameter of 700 metres is under construction off the coast of Japan as part of architect Sou Fujimoto\u2019s masterplan for Expo 2025 Osaka. Fujimoto is designing the 60,000-square-metre structure to encircle the site of the upcoming World Expo, which will be located on the artificial island Yumeshima in Osaka [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}