Gallery: The World is Not Fair: Archit...

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Lebanese artist and director Rabih Mroue built a lean, 145-foot-long shelter that stretches out throughout Tempelhof's abandoned fields.

Re-appropriating an existing warehouse structure at the ‘abandoned’ Tempelhof Airport, theater director Toshiki Okada created a shelter for performances that evokes the wrecked reactor units in Fukushima.

Using the airport’s red and white striped color code, Dutch artist Willem de Rooij created a sound installation shelter featuring the sounds of Egyptian camels.

Documentarian Hans-Werner Krösinger transformed an old existing antenna building to portray the negative use of the military and the history of forced labor of the former Tempelhof airport.

Featuring wooden amplifiers, plenty of recycled materials, and a mobile solar kitchen, the Institute fur Raumexperimente — by Prof. Olafur Eliasson — recycled an existing building for “unfair poetry, sounds and discussions” that involve all the senses.

Eric Gingrich used his ‘under-construction’ pavilion to portray different World Fairs (which have taken place for over 160 years), inviting visitors to imagine how future cities could be.

Theater collective AndCompany created the most colorful pavilion, which is entirely made from recycled wood and serves as a stage for performances within an inside-out shelter.