Graft outlines Berlin's path to Expo 2035, Tagesspiegel
TSP. From October 29, 2025, excerpts:
The idea of the 2035 World Expo in Berlin is taking shape – both figuratively and literally: The circle of supporters is growing, and key aspects of the concept have now been established. For the first time, the planners are presenting images.
(...) To achieve these milestones, the Global Goals Berlin association, led by IT entrepreneur and former Chamber of Commerce president Daniel-Jan Girl, has professionalized its organizational structures in recent months. Girl is currently soliciting seed capital from a total of ten private companies and chambers of commerce to establish the operating company, Expo 2035 Berlin GmbH, on a solid footing: €2.5 million in capital is to be raised by the end of the year. The Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK Berlin) is confirmed as the first shareholder, having contributed €250,000.
(...) As a result, Girl can now present more tangible, or rather: visible, results! Together with partners from two renowned architecture firms, he has translated ideas for the Expo project, which began a few years ago with his guest article in the Tagesspiegel newspaper, into computer-generated images. The Tagesspiegel is permitted to publish these illustrations here for the first time.
The creators recognize the risk that viewers might read too much or too little into these visualizations and therefore clarify at length: An Expo in Berlin could indeed look like this in 2035. But it could also look completely different. These are "only" designs to illustrate the topic, which might otherwise remain too abstract.
(...) In a conversation at the Expo office, Christian Tschersich, partner at the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA), and Thomas Willemeit, co-founder of the internationally renowned firm GRAFT, make it clear that they do not expect to automatically win tenders for the construction of central Expo pavilions should Berlin receive a successful evaluation. However, it also becomes clear that they could implement something. The LAVA team also designed, among other things, the German Pavilion at the Expo in Dubai (starting in 2020) and the Expo in Osaka, Japan, which closed in mid-October. They were currently working in Japan on a solution for dismantling, transporting, and reassembling the building – possibly in Berlin. Subsequent use as a school or daycare center is conceivable.
Expo 2035 is also featured on Entwicklungsstadt.de.
https://entwicklungsstadt.de/eine-stadt-als-ausstellung-so-koennte-die-expo-2035-in-berlin-aussehen
