Osaka World Expo 2025 Part I

This would be my third time participating in a World Expo. I've attended the Shanghai one in 2010, and the Milan one in 2015. The first one occured during my pre-architecture life, I got to experience it as a tourist with no expectations. I was blown away by the sheer scales of all the superstructures. For a high school student, it was like going to another kind of amusement park. The second one happened during my senior year while studying abroad in Spain. This one I had too much expectations, I was at the full peak of design curiosity so didn't properly calibrate my enthusiasm. I was frustrated throughout that visit whenever I could not get into the starchitects' pavilions due to the wait time of the lines. By the time I visited this third one, I've worked in the industry for 6 years, I gained some better understanding of masterplanning, architecture design, structure, details, landscape, interior design, and coordinations so there was a lot more to pay attention to this round, and not just merely chasing after all the famous pavilions. 

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