Expo 98
| Expo 98 | |
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| motto | "The oceans - a legacy for the future" |
| General | |
| Exhibition space | 40.5 ha |
| Number of visitors | 11 million |
| BIE recognition | Yes |
| participation | |
| countries | 143 countries |
| Place of issue | |
| place | Lisbon |
| terrain |
Parque das Nações Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 9 ° 5 ′ 45 ″ W
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| calendar | |
| opening | May 22, 1998 |
| closure | September 30, 1998 |
| Chronological order | |
| predecessor | Expo 92 |
| successor | Expo 2000 |
The Expo 98 was one of the Bureau International des Expositions recognized World Expo , from 22 May to 30 September 1998 in Lisbon ( Portugal took place). The world exhibition, the first in Portugal and the fourth (1888 Barcelona, 1929 Barcelona, 1992 Seville) on the Iberian Peninsula, had the motto Os oceanos: um património para o futuro , in English "The oceans: A legacy for the future" . Today the popular exhibition area is marketed under the name Parque das Nações .
prehistory
The idea for a world exhibition in Portugal goes back to the journalist António Mega Ferreira and the politician Vasco Graça Moura . Both chaired the commission for the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the Portuguese discoveries.
After the then government under Cavaco Silva had signaled its approval, Mega Ferreira worked out the project plan for Lisbon's application to the award committee of the Bureau International des Expositions ; Foreign Minister João de Deus Pinheiro presented the project on March 9, 1990. Ultimately, the Portuguese capital won in 1994 against the Canadian Toronto, which had also competed.
Then the state company Parque Expo SA was founded , which was responsible for the complete organization of the world exhibition. On the government side, the project was initially overseen by the social democratic politician António Cardoso e Cunha . After the socialists had won the parliamentary elections in 1995 , this was replaced by the socialist José de Melo Torres Campos .
For the location of the new world exhibition, the Portuguese government chose the westernmost point in the Olivais district . The 50 hectare old port area called Doca dos Olivais was a run-down, run-down industrial wasteland, which was suitable for such a world exhibition for urban development reasons.
After the experiences at the World Exhibition in Seville in 1992, the Portuguese government attached particular importance to the fact that all buildings and facilities could also be used after the exhibition so that the area would not be neglected again. Each building was therefore sold in advance for subsequent use.
At the same time, the tendering of major public infrastructure projects began, including the construction of the 17.2 kilometer long Vasco da Gama bridge over the Tagus , the new Gare do Oriente long-distance train station and a new metro line ( Linha Vermelha ) that connects the exhibition grounds from Gare do Oriente was to connect with the city center via 7 stops.
The restoration and urbanization of the site cost a total of 151.7 billion escudos , the inherent costs amounted to 128.6 billion escudos, the investments in the transport network amounted to 8.4 billion escudos and in other urban development projects to 38.3 billion escudos.
World exhibition
The World's Fair opened on May 22, 1998, and a total of 143 countries and 14 international organizations took part. In addition to the exhibition pavilions, there were also 5000 different shows on a total of 14 different stages.
During the 132 opening days, 10.12 million people visited the world exhibition.
Torre Vasco da Gama
The 145-meter-high Torre Vasco da Gama observation tower at the northern end of the Expo area was built as a striking landmark of Expo 98 . The tower is intended as a memorial to the seafarer Vasco da Gama : the steel construction represents the sail of a caravel , the tower body (with the viewing restaurant), like the sail, the mast (with viewing platform). A cable car runs along the banks of the Tagus River to the tower.
Torres de São Gabriel e São Rafael
Another landmark and at the same time a largely secure complex for orientation is the ensemble of Torres de São Gabriel e São Rafael right next to the center of the Expo site. They were built for the world exhibition based on a design by architects Tiago Abecassis, Tiago Abecassis and Júlio Appleton. The two towers have the same architecture and are therefore also called twin towers . They are each 110 m high, making them one of the tallest residential and commercial buildings in Lisbon.
Pavilions
In addition to the individual country and organization pavilions, there were thirteen other pavilions on the Expo site, nine thematic and four regional.
The thematic pavilions were Pavilhão do Futuro (Future Pavilion ), Pavilhão da Realidade Virtual (Pavilion of Virtual Reality), Pavilhão da Utopia (Utopia Pavilion), Pavilhão de Portugal (Portugal Pavilion), Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Knowledge Pavilion ), Pavilhão dos Oceanos (Ocean Pavilion), Pavilhão do Território (Terrain Pavilion), Pavilhão da Água (Water Pavilion) and the Exibição Náutica (Nautical Exhibition).
The four regional pavilions represented the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores (Pavilhão dos Açores) and Madeira (Pavilhão da Madeira) as well as the former Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau (Pavilhão da Guiné-Bissau) and Macau (Pavilhão de Macau) .
Pavilhão dos Oceanos, now the Oceanarium
Pavilhão Atlântico
Pavilhão Atlântico in Parque das Nações, now an event and conference hall
Pavilhão da Realidade Virtual
Portuguese pavilion
tickets
There were different types of admission tickets for access to the Expo site. In addition to the day ticket ($ 5,000.00 Escudos, about 25 euros) and an evening ticket ($ 2,500.00 Escudos, about 12.50 euros) there were also three-day tickets ($ 12,500.00 Escudos, about 62.35 euros) and three-month tickets ($ 50,000.00 Escudos , around 250 euros).
A few months before the exhibition, the Swiss watch company Swatch launched the Adamastor watch model , which received a chip that could be used as a day pass. To gain entry, it was enough to hold the clock to the entrance barriers.
Music, logo and mascot
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Musician Nuno Rebelo composed the right music for the world exhibition in 1996. His piece Pangea , named after the eponymous continent , represented a mixture of the most diverse musical styles that supposedly came from all corners of the world.
The Expo 98 logo was designed by the responsible marketing manager for the Expo, Augusto Tavares Dias. It shows a sea wave and a sun and below it the writing EXPO '98 .
The mascot for the Expo was developed by the painter António Modesto and the sculptor Artur Moreira. The proposal of the pupil José Luis Coelho was able to prevail against 309 other proposals in the nationwide mascot competition advertised in schools and was ultimately given the name Gil as a homage to the Portuguese navigator Gil Eanes .
participating countries
Africa
Egypt , Algeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Djibouti , Ivory Coast , Eritrea , Guinea-Bissau , Cape Verde , Kenya , Comoros , Congo , Lesotho , Madagascar , Malawi , Mali , Morocco , Mauritania , Mauritius , Mozambique , Namibia , Nigeria , Zambia , São Tomé and Príncipe , Senegal , Seychelles , Zimbabwe , South Africa , Sudan , Swaziland , Tanzania , Tunisia , Uganda
America
Antigua and Barbuda , Argentina , Bahamas , Barbados , Belize , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , El Salvador , Granada , Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , Jamaica , Canada , Colombia , Cuba , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , St. Kitts and Nevis , St. Vincent and the Grenadines , St. Lucia , Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , Uruguay , Venezuela , United States
Asia
Armenia , Bangladesh , China , India , Iran , Israel , Japan , Yemen , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Mongolia , Nepal , Pakistan , Palestinian Territories , Philippines , Saudi Arabia , Sri Lanka , South Korea , Turkey , United Arab Emirates , Vietnam , Cyprus
Europe
Albania , Andorra , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Denmark , Germany , Estonia , Finland , France , Greece , Iceland , Italy , Yugoslavia , Kyrgyzstan , Croatia , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Macedonia , Monaco , Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Russia , San Marino , Sweden , Switzerland , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Ukraine , Hungary , Vatican , United Kingdom , Belarus
Oceania
Cook Islands , Kiribati , Micronesia , Papua New Guinea , Samoan Islands , Tonga , Tuvalu
Reuse
After the official end of the world exhibition on September 30, 1998, the entire site was closed for 15 days. Then it opened under the new name Parque das Nações . The oceanarium, the future and the knowledge pavilion remained open until the end of the year.
In the following months there were further conversions for the themed pavilions and other changes on the exhibition grounds.
The main entrance to the World's Fair, which is right in front of the Gare do Oriente , has been converted into the Vasco da Gama Shopping Center ( Centro Comercial Vasco da Gama ) operated by Sonae . The international northern part of the world exhibition became the new location of the Lisbon Fair ( Feira Internacional de Lisboa ). The Utopia Pavilion was renamed Pavilhão Atlântico and is still used today as an event location. In 2007 the Lisbon Conference took place in this building . The building was temporarily converted by installing a temporary conference center. The knowledge pavilion houses a science museum, the future pavilion houses the Lisbon casino. The ocean pavilion has been converted into the large oceanarium . Only the virtual reality pavilion was demolished, the Vasco da Gama tower , apart from a few interim uses, was only preserved as a striking building without commercial use.
The remaining exhibition space could be sold, both as office and residential space. Various international companies, among others, are represented today ( Vodafone , Sonae , Sony , the European Agency for Maritime Safety ). Today around 28,000 people live in the area.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Gänshirt: An anchor thrown into the future - Lisbon and the Expo '98 , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of August 13, 1998
- ↑ a b Basic data of the BIE for Expo 98 in Lisbon, Portugal
- ^ Christian Gänshirt: The State as Architect - The Portuguese Pavilion at the Expo '98 , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of August 27, 1998
- ↑ Carsten Land, Jordana Tomé: "The value of a Casa efémera" in: archimaera (issue 3/2010).
Web links
- Website of Parque das Nações, the successor to Expo 98 (Portuguese, English)
- Expo 1998. Bureau International des Expositions (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
- Source for Parque Nacoes
- Fan page with lots of photos from Expo '98