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“balancity” – a city in balance

An underwater escalator takes visitors to the Harbour

The German Pavilion has been christened “balancity” – a newly coined word signifying a city in balance. Visitors to balancity will embark on a journey through a city of ideas, moving around as they would in a real city – on foot, moving walkways and escalators – through thematic areas representing different themes for a better life in a better city.

In the City Square the artist Konrad Kuechenmeister is giving a audio-visuell feeling of the live in a Metropolis.

The journey starts at the Harbour and leads through a Garden and a Park, via a Town Planning Office, past the Depot, the Studio and the City Square to the "Energy Source", the city’s power plant.

A city can be a good place to live – if it provides a balance between renewal and preservation, innovation and tradition, urbanity and nature, community and individual development and work and leisure. That’s the message of the German Pavilion.

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