National Pavilion for the World Expo in 2010.

So we won the competition to build the U.K. pavilion.

The beauty of the Golden Pavilion covered in snow was unmatched.

It's a bamboo pavilion, then they got bamboo mats out there.

And two summers ago at the Hyde Park in London, with the Serpentine Gallery a kind of a temporal pavilion where moving was the only way you could see the pavilion.

When I was young, my father often talked to me about the Golden Pavilion.

The architecture of the pavilion is this sort of loop of exhibition and bikes.

So I was chosen to build the pavilion out of paper tubes, recyclable paper.

So, this is an exhibition pavilion where there is absolutely nothing to see and nothing to do.

This next project, we were asked to design a pavilion to celebrate the recycling of the water on the Millennium Dome in London.

This is an image that won us a competition for an exhibition pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002 on Lake Neuchatel, near Geneva.

It was in a big pavilion in Greenville, an indoor pavilion, and I went to it because I was so frustrated as Governor that I couldn't stop the outflow of these jobs, and I wanted to grieve with them, and as I went into the room there's thousands of people there.

It was said to her, 'Enter the pavilion.' But when she saw it, she supposed it was a spreading water, and she bared her legs. He said, 'It is a pavilion smoothed of crystal. She said, 'My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I surrender with Solomon to God, the Lord of all Being.'

It was said to her 'Enter the pavilion' And when she saw it, she thought it was a pool of water, and bared her legs. But he said 'It is a pavilion smoothed with crystal' She said 'My Lord, I have wronged myself, and I become a Muslim (submissive) with Solomon to Allah, Lord of the Worlds'

There are common elements of this that you'll see throughout Chicago, and then there are your big D design statements the Pritzker Pavilion done by Frank Gehry.

So if you come to the expo, go straight to the Danish pavilion, get a Danish bike, and then continue on that to visit the other pavilions.

Thence his eyes wandered over the town to far away where the ships' lights shone, and the pier glowed a little illuminated, facetted pavilion like a gem of yellow

And that was asked not just by that guy but by everyone in the pavilion, and frankly, by every worker at one of the 50,000 factories that closed in the first decade of this century.

And we ask the question, can we use technology, high technology, to make an expo pavilion that's decidedly low definition, that also challenges the conventions of space and skin, and rethinks our dependence on vision?