page_title: Expo 2000
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Expo 2000 / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: The glass orb by Tomasz Urbanowicz (ARCHIGLASS) entitled “United World”, placed in the central point of the Agora of the European Parliament in Strasburg in 2004, summarizes the notion of openness to expansion of the European Union and reaches even further… into dreams.
context_page_description: Expo 2000 was a World Expo held in Hanover, Germany from Thursday 1 June to Tuesday 31 October 2000. It was located on the Hanover Fairground, which is the largest exhibition ground in the world. Initially some 40 million people were expected to attend the exhibition over the course of months, however eventually with less than half of this number the Expo was a flop and turned out a financial failure.
  The Expo's masterplan was designed in a joint venture with Studio d'Arnaboldi / Cavadini, Locarno and AS&P.
context_section_description: Some of the buildings on the Expo site were sold after EXPO 2000 ended, but most of the exhibition area is still used for major fairs in Germany, as it has been since 1949. The southeastern area around Expo Plaza has been turned into Hanover's new centre of information technology, design, media and arts.
  Most of the national pavilion buildings were demolished, or disassembled and shipped to their home countries, following the Expo. Some buildings  were retained, including the Netherlands Pavilion. The structure has now fallen into disrepair, until earlier in December 2017, when architecture company MVRDV announced plans to restore and renovate the Netherlands pavilion to accommodate future users.
  A glass sculpture called "United Earth" by Tomasz Urbanowicz exhibited as part of the Lower Silesian Presentation in the Polish Pavillion was later handed over by the City of Wrocław to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The sculpture is the main central point of the Agora of the Louise Weiss building designed by Architecture-Studio.
caption: Glass sculpture "United Earth" by Tomasz Urbanowicz from EXPO 2000, rebuilt in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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