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  • Spherical spheres at Expo 2025 in the Swiss pavilion

    Spherical spheres at Expo 2025 in the Swiss pavilion

    From April 13 to October 13, 2025, the next World Expo will take place in Osaka, Japan. Under the motto “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”, Switzerland will present itself as an efficient and leading innovation hub and will show concrete examples from business, science and research. Nüssli, together with Manuel Herz Architekten and Bellprat Partner, won the tender for the design, construction and dismantling of the Swiss presence and is implementing the pavilion in lightweight construction and with a touch of magic. The team is completed by Robin Winogrond Landscape Architects, Studio AA-Morf, and Kyoto Design Lab.

    Swiss ideas, experience and know-how in Japan
    “We are very proud to continue our long tradition as implementation partner of the Swiss Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka. Despite this long Expo experience, however, the Swiss Pavilion with its pneumatic, spherical construction will also provide us with some sticking points,” says Andy Böckli. Stefan Sekiguchi adds: “To successfully realize the architectural design together with Japanese service providers and according to the applicable guidelines in Japan requires getting to know the country and its people. That’s why we work with our local partner and can benefit from valuable knowledge.” Arnau Bellprat is looking forward to the challenges in the global environment. “In our Spheres, visitors should be able to immerse themselves in an immersive, narrative and fantastic world. They should have a sensory and emotional experience that they will remember for a long time – we call it a biographical note.” Architect Manuel Herz is particularly interested in pneumatic construction, which allows for a building of minimal weight and has a long tradition for pavilions at World’s Fairs. “We are taking an architecture that has been used before for iconic Expo buildings and reinterpreting it.”

    Pavilion embedded in nature
    The concept for the Swiss pavilion focuses on sustainability. Spheres and modular structures made of recycled recyclable materials, as well as plants that overgrow, enclose and sequesterCO2 from the building, make up the single-story barrier-free architecture and contribute to a minimal ecological footprint. The scenography takes up the light exterior appearance of the building and stages the contents in the exhibition with light and color. In the five spheres of the pavilion, visitors experience how Swiss innovation is created from the nutrients of nature as well as with Switzerland’s humanistic tradition and a little magic. They can help shape, explore and ultimately take Swiss innovation out into the world in the form of plant seeds. In the pavilion, they will also meet the mythical figure of Heidi, who acts as a link to the host country, Japan. The care and preservation of nature are also important common concerns that link Japan and Switzerland.

    Cooperation and local support
    The topic of sustainability is taken seriously in the Swiss Pavilion and carefully implemented with academic support. With researchers, lecturers and students from the Kyoto Institute of Technology – in particular with the KIT Design Lab of the Faculty of Architecture – the social, economic and ecological footprint of the appearance is to be analyzed and improved over its entire lifespan.

  • Nüssli builds a stadium for the Swiss Confederation

    Nüssli builds a stadium for the Swiss Confederation

    The event and construction service provider Nüssli , based in the St.GallenBodenseeArea, was responsible for the construction of the arena for the 22nd time for the Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival , which takes place from August 26th to 28th in Pratteln BL. According to a press release , the company from Hüttwilen has been building the festival arena for the largest sporting and cultural event in the country since 1961. With six stands and seating for 50,900 spectators, the arena is one of the largest temporary stadiums in the world.

    In addition to the festival grounds, an athletes' village has also been created since June. In order to connect this with the festival area, the ten-strong Nüssli team decided on a footbridge over the nearby railway tracks. Nüssli received support from the army and civil defense. At peak times, up to 300 people were scheduled on the construction site.

    While the majority of the 300,000 building elements from projects in Switzerland were transported to Pratteln in the Basel area, certain components such as stair and roof elements as well as the company's premium grandstand for VIP guests from abroad and major international projects had to be brought in.

    After the crowning of the wrestling king, Nüssli starts dismantling again and transports the components to the next event.

  • Nüssli expo pavilions have received numerous awards

    Nüssli expo pavilions have received numerous awards

    Despite the pandemic, the Nüssli project teams built ten country pavilions for the Expo in Dubai on time. As the company has now announced , they have received numerous nominations and a total of 23 awards.

    Five pavilions have been nominated for one of the Expo’s governing body’s prestigious BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) awards . The German and Kazakh received gold and silver in the Theme Interpretation category. The Japanese Expo building also won gold in the Exhibition Design category. Silver and bronze in the architecture category went to Austria and China. The pavilions of Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg received one, and the Japanese pavilion even two Honorable Mentions in the various categories.

    With its unusual and sustainable architecture, the Austrian Pavilion attracted a lot of attention. It also won the renowned Global Architecture & Design Award 2021 , the BLT Built Design Award 2021 , the Austrian Green Planet Building Award and the German Design Award 2022 .

    According to the information provided, the Austrian pavilion consumed 70 percent less energy than comparable buildings. The structure and facade of the Kazakh building can be largely recycled. And when the Baden-Württemberg house was built from wood, 200 tons of CO2 could be saved compared to conventional steel structures. According to Nüssli, these three examples are “exemplary for the innovation and sustainability of Nüssli’s pavilion range.

  • Nüssli is building ten pavilions for the Expo

    Nüssli is building ten pavilions for the Expo

    The world exhibition, which is actually planned for 2020, begins in Dubai on October 1st. Nüssli is building ten of the total of 200 country pavilions for the Expo, according to a press release by the event builder from the St.GallenBodenseeArea. Despite strict compliance with the health measures, all work is on track, so that the pavilions of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Austria, Belarus, China, Japan, Kazakhstan and Monaco will be ready on time.

    The pavilions of France and Japan attracted particular attention. The trade journal “Architectural Digest” recently presented the eight pavilions that will be architecturally the most important at the Expo. With France and Japan, this also includes two of the pavilions built by Nüssli. The event organizer is implementing the motto Pavilion of Light for France and is focusing on sustainability and the connection between Japan and the Middle East for Japan.

    “We cultivate forward-looking planning, cultural understanding and constant exchange within and between the teams as important principles,” Harald Dosch is quoted in the message, COO Special Projects at Nüssli and responsible for all ten pavilions. His company also benefits from the experience. Because Nüssli built a pavilion for the world exhibition in Hanover 20 years ago. In the meantime, 35 more Expo projects have been added.