Laurence Grigorov, who is director of a leading residential
property development company, keeps track of new projects and developments all
around the globe. This allows Laurence Grigorov to constantly incorporate
technology and advancements in structural design in developments his company is
involved in.
A project which has caught the attention of Laurence
Grigorov is the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, which will be conceived by the
award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin OBE and will highlight leading
British expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Space. The project will be
titled The Poem Pavilion.
Devlin is known for creating stunning large-scale performative sculptures that fuse technology, poetry, light and sound, and The Poem Pavilion features a breathtaking illuminated ‘Message to Space’ to which each of the Expo’s anticipated 25 million visitors will be invited to contribute.
Devlin says: “The idea draws directly on one of Stephen Hawking’s final projects, ‘Breakthrough Message’, a global competition that Hawking and his colleagues conceived in 2015 inviting people worldwide to consider what message we would communicate to express ourselves as a planet, should we one day encounter other advanced civilizations in Space.
She said: ‘The U.K. has an unparalleled record in Expo design: from instigating the very first Expo in 1851 to the recent breathtaking pavilions of Thomas Heatherwick, Wolfgang Buttress, Asif Kahn and Brian Eno: it’s a true honour to be invited to take part.’
It will be the first time since its inception in 1851 that the UK Pavilion has been conceived by a female designer and Devlin will be leading a predominantly female team of experts in Artificial Intelligence and Space technology.
Devlin will join forces with London and Dubai based executive architects Veretec, globally renowned Manchester-based structural engineers Atelier One, award-winning sustainability engineers Atelier Ten and international creative agency Avantgarde to deliver the complex sculptural architecture of the Pavilion which will highlight innovative and sustainable building techniques and materials.
Devlin is known for creating stunning large-scale performative sculptures that fuse technology, poetry, light and sound, and The Poem Pavilion features a breathtaking illuminated ‘Message to Space’ to which each of the Expo’s anticipated 25 million visitors will be invited to contribute.
Devlin says: “The idea draws directly on one of Stephen Hawking’s final projects, ‘Breakthrough Message’, a global competition that Hawking and his colleagues conceived in 2015 inviting people worldwide to consider what message we would communicate to express ourselves as a planet, should we one day encounter other advanced civilizations in Space.
She said: ‘The U.K. has an unparalleled record in Expo design: from instigating the very first Expo in 1851 to the recent breathtaking pavilions of Thomas Heatherwick, Wolfgang Buttress, Asif Kahn and Brian Eno: it’s a true honour to be invited to take part.’
It will be the first time since its inception in 1851 that the UK Pavilion has been conceived by a female designer and Devlin will be leading a predominantly female team of experts in Artificial Intelligence and Space technology.
Devlin will join forces with London and Dubai based executive architects Veretec, globally renowned Manchester-based structural engineers Atelier One, award-winning sustainability engineers Atelier Ten and international creative agency Avantgarde to deliver the complex sculptural architecture of the Pavilion which will highlight innovative and sustainable building techniques and materials.
Laurence Grigorov, a Wits University graduate, leads Laurence
Martin Developments, which is a luxury residential development company based in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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