Avenue Five
Seville World Exposition 92 - 1992
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 - Main section of water wall at night.
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 - Children playing in the water wall river.
Avenue Five Central Plaza and Water Buildings - Seville World Expo 92 - The 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 - Vegetated arcade and central monorail station.