Avenue Five: Expo 92
Avenue Five
Seville World Exposition 92 - 1992

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Main section of water wall at night
This building, public space, water wall, garden and outdoor restaurant facility was designed as one of the five main processionals for Seville World Expo 92, providing access to a series of national pavilions and accommodating the main monorail station. The three hundred meter long, ribbon-like configuration is conceived as a site-specific experience, celebrating the topography of the Guadalquivir River and its history as a route to the sea for 15th Century nautical explorers. It also represents the expo theme of ‘discovery’ and the emerging relationship between technological and ecological initiatives in the 21st Century. A massive, landscape-covered arcade shelters the processional, providing natural water and vegetation protection from the summer heat of Seville.

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Rendering of the project

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Water wall under construction

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Ivy covered arcade over the restaurants

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Children playing in the water wall river

Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - Seville Spain - 1992 - Vegetated arcade and central monorail station