The Expo has closed and the elaborate pavilions are being dismantled.
Dismantle-Mi
The photographer Luca Rotondo documented the Expo site’s dismantling, that became once again a building site fascinating as it was during construction.
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- Luca Rotondo
- 12 January 2016
- Milan
The landscape is desolate and deserted, with just a few workers demolishing what remains of the great universal exhibition. The dismantling works preceding site regeneration commenced in the first weeks after the Expo closed to the public and the first phase will see the interiors being completely cleared. The Expo company has allocated two weeks to this work for the smaller pavilions and 20–25 days for the larger ones.
According to the Expo management plans, nothing except Padiglione Italia will be left standing by the end of March. Some pavilions will enjoy a new life reinstalled elsewhere (France will go to Paris, Munich to Burkina Faso and Vanke will be auctioned off for charity...). Others will simply be dismantled and recycled. All that remains are the monumental doubts surrounding the future of the huge and now former Expo site.
Luca Rotondo (1989) In 2010, he turned his focus to architecture photography. During Expo Milano 2015, he developed several research and documentary projects on the event and published his work I 400 Volti. His work has been published on Domus, Interni and Living. He has participated in several collective exhibitions and had a first solo exhibition curated by Angela Madesani for Art Verona 2014. His Metropolitan Lullabies won the 2015 Amilcare Ponchielli award.