World Expo 2025

Yumeshima Island / Ôsaka City

The Japan International Exposition “Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025“, currently being held on Yumeshima in Ôsaka City, is entitled “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” and the first ever international expo to take place on an artificial island – originally created as a rubble dump. 158 countries and over a dozen renowned Japanese and international architects – their pavilions and other buildings are surrounded by the Grand Ring – are taking part: BAN Shigeru | Norman FOSTER | FUJIMOTO Sou | Manuel HERZ | ITÔ Toyô | KUMA Kengo | LAVA | NIKKEN SEKKEI | RAU ARCHITECTS | SANAA | WOO ARCHITECTS