Design team selected for Expo.

After interviewing 25 international design teams; the City of Shanghai selected Perkins Eastman to lead one of the ten teams for the planning of the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

Perkins Eastman's team was selected as the American-led team.

The other nine teams represent six countries, Hong Kong, and three Chinese-based Design Institutes.

Each team will develop concepts for the 5.28[km.sup.2] World's Fair, which is expected to attract 70 to 100 million visitors and be the largest in history.

The City has set aside more than 6 kilometers on both sides of its downtown riverfront as the site for this major event.

The Expo's theme. "Better City, Better Life," is to be built into the design to demonstrate how a high quality of life can be achieved in even the highest density urban environments.

The Perkins Eastman team includes Perkins Eastman; BFJ Planners; Gary Hack, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design; Lynn Sygalan, formerly the head of Columbia University's Real Estate Development Program, who is now at the University of Pennsylvania; Dwight Perkins, Director of Harvard University's Asia Center; Arup; The Olin Partnership and HOK Sport & Event Group.

Perkins Eastman is the largest architectural, programming, planning, and interior design firm in the New York metro area and design excellence to clients throughout the world.