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Croatian Pavilion Wins Silver Award at Expo 2025 in Osaka

On October 12, a silver award was presented to the Croatian Pavilion at the World Expo Expo 2025 Osaka, selected by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) based in Paris.

The Croatian Pavilion was awarded in the competition of joint pavilions in the zone ‘Saving Lives‘ (Saving Lives Zone) for excellence in theme interpretation (‘Theme Development’).

The winners were decided by members of the BIE’s international jury, composed of nine experts from various fields, who visited the pavilions during May and October 2025 before making their final decision.

Official awards are given in several categories, depending on the concept and size of the pavilion – from architecture and landscaping (for independently built pavilions), to exterior design (for modular pavilions), to exhibition design, theme interpretation, and sustainability.

The World Expo Expo 2025 Osaka will take place from April 13 to October 13, 2025, under the overarching theme ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives’. The host city is Osaka, and the exhibition will be held on the artificial island of Yumeshima, specially prepared for this occasion. More than 160 countries and international organizations will be represented at the Expo, which, according to organizers’ estimates, will attract over 28 million visitors.

The Republic of Croatia is participating with the project ‘Croatia – Climadiversity’, authored by the team of Lana Grahek, Maroje Mrduljaš, Antonio Patljak, Korina Vuković, and Pero Vuković, with collaborators Petar Bigor, Yujin Jeong, and Filip Majcenić, as well as the ARHIV architecture and urbanism studio.

The Croatian Pavilion is distinguished by its original and interactive concept that provides visitors with a unique ‘live’ experience – the sensation of the genuine warmth of various Croatian regions at the same moment, adjusted for time differences. Thanks to a network of meteorological stations across Croatia, real-time temperature data from multiple locations is transmitted in the pavilion, allowing for a physical feeling and comparison of the diversity of the Croatian climate – from the coast to the interior. This global innovation combines science, technology, and art in an immediate experience of climate diversity.

The pavilion was constructed by the Croatian company Enison from Zagreb.

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