great protagonist theItaly at Expo 2025 which will be held ad Osaka with the making of Italy Pavilion by the Italian architect Mario Cucinella with a tribute to Italian Renaissance. Let's find out what it is.
Italy at Expo 2025
Expo 2025, will be held in Osaka, Japan from April 13 to October 13, 2025This is the Universal Exposition that will transform the metropolis into a world showcase in which the participating countries will present to the world the best of their ideas, projects, exemplary and innovative models in the field of tangible and intangible infrastructures by linking to some objectives from the2030 Agenda. The theme of the Osaka Expo is: “Designing Future Societies for our lives".
The Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
Our country will be the protagonist of the event thanks to the work designed by the internationally renowned architect Mario Cucinella, winner of numerous international awards, commissioned to build the Italian Pavilion by the General Commissioner Mario Vattani. The Italian Pavilion will represent a modern version of Ideal City, symbolic image of the Italian Renaissance.
For the first time an Italian pavilion at the Expo will also host the Holy See.
The creation aims to promote the excellence of Made in Italy, promote tourism and territories, support the internationalization of production chains, attract investments and enhance our technologies.
The project
"The project by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects” declared the General Commissioner for Italy Mario Andrea Vattani “reflects the Italian identity in a contemporary and high-impact key, and expresses the values at the base of our culture: an idea of space deeply rooted in our tradition of squares, theaters and gardens, and a culture of doing, based on interactions real between people. "
The structure will bring together the most representative values of Italian culture in a single work and will be a real stage. The aim will be to reveal how, in the past and in the present, there is the possibility of giving life to a society capable of generating innovation, sustainability and well-being and of overcoming the conflicts between natural and artificial.
A tribute to the Renaissance
The designed building is inspired by Ideal city, a tempera painting on wood datable between 1470 and 1490 and kept in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino. The work, one of the symbolic images of the Italian Renaissance, saw the light at the refined Urbino court of Federico da Montefeltro and has been alternately attributed to artists such as: Piero della Francesca, Luciano Laurana, Francesco di Giorgio Martini. A large circular building stands out in the center of a large square.
The construction of the structure
The Italian Pavilion will be hosted in the district 'Saving life' within lot A9, which has an area of 3.626 m2.538, of which XNUMX are buildable. The estimate for the construction of the structure is around 24 million.
The link with our past in future perspective always appears inseparable as the celebration of the values of our Renaissance.
