2005/03/25

"EXPO 2005 AICHI, JAPAN" has opened

In the center of Ireland Pavilion (produce: ASATSU-DK, building design KANKYO System Laboratory + kikutake architects), five replicas of Celtic Cross are exhibited. Those are huge stone cross which about 7 meters high, Christianity and Celts culture were mixed in, and it seems to be the first time that they are taken abroad. The open space where these are put is covered on a dome ceiling of a diameter of 10 meters. Blue sky, clouds, thunderstorm, rainbow after rain, dusk, moonlight, daybreak. The changing Irish sky are projected by the ceiling. Reiko Chikada programed color and brightness of light that to let cross rise to go along with that sky change.

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