The structures pictured above have remained in their exposition host countries. Some have been become important cultural buildings, some have been converted into industrial or scientific parks, some have remained in a park-like setting to become symbols of their city.
First row: London’s Crystal Palace, 1851 (destroyed by fire in 1936); Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 1876; Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne, Australia, 1880; Eiffel Tower in Paris, 1889.
Second row: Atomium, Brussels, 1958; Space Needle, Seattle, 1962; Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome, Montreal, 1967 (now the Biosphere); Unisphere, Queens, New York, 1964.
Pavilhao da Ciencia, Lisbon, 1998; Canada Place, Vancouver, 1986; Cartuja 93, Seville, 1992 (now a scientific park); China Pavilion and the Expo Boulevard, Shanghai, 2010.
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