US pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai to be completed in November
The construction of the US pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai will be completed in November, according to John Rakolta, US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"The construction of the pavilion is progressing according to our schedule. We look forward to substantial buildings’ completion sometime around 15th November," he said during a virtual media roundtable with a select group of journalists, as reported by the Emirate news agency WAM.
The United Arab Emirates has contributed $60 million to the construction of the infrastructure that will represent the American giant at the global event to be hosted by Dubai, which was postponed to 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The remaining amount will be raised by various US organisations, as detailed by Rakolta, who did not reveal the total cost.
"It [the expo participation] is one of the [US] embassy’s top priorities. We look forward to the very best of American participation. It gives us an opportunity to celebrate the UAE’s golden jubilee and many achievements of this nation," Rakolta explained.
The ambassador who just returned from Washington after witnessing the signing of historic Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain, said the Israeli participation in Expo 2020 Dubai will show "the inclusiveness of not only the Emirates but of the entire region as well, and how we are moving to a much more inclusive society here." It will bring all kinds of additional benefits, "the biggest ones, of course, in trade and investments, tourism, job opportunities, and peace," the envoy added.
The US pavilion themed ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of the future’ will showcase a cultural programme, for which recruitment of artists and performers from across the United States has already been started, he revealed.
They will represent their territories and regions as America’s Cultural Ambassadors at the Expo, Rakolta said, adding that the cultural programmes will display "the geographic and cultural richness of the United States and its territories."
At the Dubai World Expo, the United States will revolve, never better, around the principle of movement, as the design of the American project embraces the spirit of mobility, one of the three main concepts on which the global event that the UAE will host from 2021 is based.
Its innovative pavilion will project a sense of movement, giving the impression that the building itself is moving. This concept is linked to the history of the American nation, which, since its establishment as such at the end of the 18th century, has been constantly evolving to become the great global superpower that it is today.
Housed in the 'Mobility' theme district (one of the three that make up the central site of the Dubai Expo 2020, together with the 'Sustainability' and 'Opportunity' districts), the infrastructure that will represent the United States at the World Expo will seek to immerse its visitors in innovation, exhibiting technologies and concepts linked to the potential to 'move' humanity into the future.
