A sustainable dome "Blue Ocean" for the Osaka 2025 Expo

In the era where the collapse of marine ecosystems is no longer a distant threat but a palpable reality, it becomes imperative to rethink our relationship to the oceans — and to what we are building around, above, and sometimes even to the detriment of them. Faced with this urgency, the Blue Ocean Dome, imagined for Expo 2025 of Osaka by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in collaboration with ZERI Japan, does not just do architectural work: it …